Dr Marios Adonis is an Associate Professor of clinical health psychology and is currently the Head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Nicosia. He has served as a board member of the Cyprus Mental Health Commission and the Cyprus AntiDrug Council. He has also served as the vice president of the Cyprus Psychologists Association for two terms. Marios works as a Clinician and is the Clinical supervisor for a substance dependence rehabilitation center in Cyprus. His research interests include psychosocial and cultural factors in cardiovascular health, trauma and positive psychology, especially humility.
Vaijayanti Ajinkya is a Design Consultant from India. With a passionate interest in Indic scripts, she has practiced calligraphy in the Devanagari, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali scripts. A recent Master’s graduate from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai, she worked as a Type Design Intern and a Visual Designer before pursuing her interest in typography. Vaijayanti is inclined towards being hyper-referential in her projects by gaining artistic insights from cinema, architecture and history. Local hand-lettered signages and using eccentric writing tools are some things that fascinate her. This led to her presenting a research paper on ‘Engraving Letters’ at the Typography Day Conference 2020 in Amman, Jordan. She loves traveling, listening to regional music, discovering new forms of art, and tries to relate everything to typography.
Emily Allbon is an Associate Professor at the City Law School (City, University of London), moving into academia in 2014 from her previous career in legal librarianship. She is known for her work in developing the award-winning Lawbore resource – a website to support and engage those studying law, as well as for her work in the field of legal design. She was proud to launch TL;DR –the less textual legal gallery in late 2019– which showcases ways of making law more accessible to all. In 2013 the Higher Education Academy named her one of 55 National Teaching Fellows. Her academic background includes degrees in English Literature, Law, Information Science and Academic Practice. Aside from a fascination with the ways in which design can impact our understanding, her interests lie in legal education, legal research and legal information literacy, student engagement and the use of technology in teaching and learning.
Aggeliki MK Athanasiadi is a Visual Communication Designer, Author, Columnist, Founder and Creative Director of “Graphic Stories”, the annual Conference on Graphic Design and Visual Communication in Cyprus. She has been working as a designer since 1999. She holds an MA with Distinction from Middlesex University, London. Having acquired a strong background in print and digital communication and advertising she worked with advertising agencies, as a freelancer, as well as with big printing houses in Athens. She has worked as an Assistant Art Director at the Attica Publishing Group for PC Magazine and for pharmaceutical companies (Novartis, Pharmanel, Menarini, UCB). In 2016 and 2017 she organized the “Behance Portfolio Reviews” in Cyprus. She is a member of the board of the Cyprus Creative Club, the local representative of the Art Directors Club of Europe [ADC*E] and a jury member of the ADC*E (2020). Aggeliki is the co-organizer of the Design Forum “10 min design talk”. In 2019 she published the “Graphic Stories” album-book, her first authoring work. She has participated in art and graphic design exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, UAE, China, Korea, Indonesia, Ecuador, Serbia, Mexico and Spain with more than 100 personal artworks. She has been awarded in the Cypriot Design & Advertising Awards “Pygmalion” with Gold and Silver distinction.
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Philippa Athymaritou is an architect specializing in urban planning. She teaches at the University of West Attica, Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, since 1986. She holds α Diploma in Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1986), a BSc in Graphic Arts Technology, an MSc degree in Interactive Multimedia from University of Westminster (UoW), London, U.K. Her field of research includes urban planning and graphic arts in the urban environment as well as interactive multimedia and printing technology. Her research has been presented at international conferences.
Shani Avni is the Ismar David Visiting Assistant Curator at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection since 2020. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from Shenkar College, Israel and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK. For her thesis she researched The David Hebrew typeface family and, since receiving her degree, continues to do so. She designs, researches, teaches, consults, writes and lectures on Hebrew type design and typography and perseveres in her efforts to make historical information accessible as both an academic and a practical reference.
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Dr Jo De Baerdemaeker is an award-winning independent Belgian typeface designer and researcher. He holds an MA in Typeface Design and was awarded a PhD from the University of Reading. His interests are designing, researching and writing about world script typefaces (particularly on Tibetan, Lantsa, Mongolian and Javanese) and multilingual typography. He is elected vice-President of ATypI, and currently teaches at LUCA School of Arts (campus Sint-Lucas Gent). In 2012 he founded Studio Type in Antwerp (Belgium), and collaborates with international design agencies and type foundries.
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Angelos Bakas is a typographic designer, lecturer and writer. He was writer, designer and publisher of Acro, the first Greek magazine (bi-lingual) on typography and visual communication. He has designed over twenty graecolatin typefaces and is a member of Cannibal Fonts – an association of Greek type designers. He lectured in Wales, UK, for over ten years, including communication theory and marketing methodologies in his student projects. Since 2000 he worked on brand analysis, development and management, as well as on destination branding and promotion. In 2010 he concluded his professional career with the publication of a collection of significant works by fellow designers in his home city, titled Thessaloniki Graphic Design 1980-2009, as the chief editor of a team organized by Red Creative, a Thessaloniki based design bureau. He is also a writer of fiction, with ten published titles (two of them also in English).
Bakker is a visiting associate professor at the School of Design of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China. He specializes in design history and information design. His current research concerns the historic development and use of transport symbols for which he carried out extensive research in Germany, France, The United Kingdom and The United States. In addition, he is preparing research into symbol use for AR and animated symbols.
Andreu Balius is a type designer based in Spain. He develops his work between Barcelona and the Pyrenees. He designs retail and custom typefaces at Typerepublic.com and has been awarded with several Excellence in Type Design for his type design work. He holds a PhD in Design and teaches typography and type design at EINA, University School of Design and Art, in Barcelona. He is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 2010, ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and the Type Directors Club of New York.
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Maria Bekiari was born and raised in Athens, in 1994. She is a graduand in the Technology of Graphic Arts at the department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication in the University of West Attica. In 2018 she attended a mandatory practicum semester on packaging design and bag printing. She also has experience on screen printing on clothes and stickers and has worked in prepress and post production management.
Prof. Dr Ann Bessemans is a legibility expert and award-winning graphic and type designer. She founded the READSEARCH legibility research group at the PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University where she teaches typography and type design. Ann is the program director of the international Master program ‘Reading Type & Typography’. Ann received her PhD from Leiden University and Hasselt University under the supervision of Prof. Dr Gerard Unger. She is a member of the Data Science Institute UHasselt, the Young Academy of Belgium and lecturer at the Plantin Institute of Typography.
Petr van Blokland is the owner, together with Claudia Mens, of Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, founded in 1982. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts – cum laude – in The Hague and Industrial Design at Delft Technical University. His special interest is in typography, type design, designing the design process, automation of design, developing software tools for designers and design theory. He developed live design games at various art schools and conferences around the world and published columns in design magazines on various topics. Van Blokland lectures at the Department of Graphic Design (1988-2011) and Master Type & Media (1998–present) of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, as well as at the Master Institute of AKV St. Joost in Den Bosch (2010-present). He received the Charles Peignot Award for typography of AtypI, the Association Typographique International, in 1988 and was Board Member from 1996 to 2003.
Besides lecturing, his current focus is on international projects, related to typography and type design. He also is co-founder of webtype.com and typenetwork.com, for which many typedesign tools were developed. Type Network is also the location of his type foundry TYPETR. The online study environment DesignDesign.Space started in 2017.
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Maria Smith Bohannon is a designer, writer, and practitioner whose research includes expressive use of typography and image and sustainable design practices. She has an MFA in Graphic Design from Kent State University and a BFA in Graphic Design with minors in Illustration and Drawing from the Mary Schilling Meyers School of Art at The University of Akron. Previously, she practiced professionally at the Williams McBride Group in Lexington, Kentucky where she was creative director and as an art director for Kleidon & Associates in Ohio. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Oakland University.
Josefina Bravo is a practising information designer and Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Reading, UK. In her practice and research, she has focused on the design of user-friendly health information, emergency information and education materials. She is particularly interested in user instructions and the range of visual techniques that can be used to enable comprehension of instructional text.
David Březina is a designer, writer, lecturer, and chief type officer at Rosetta Type. He designed typefaces for a diverse palette of the world’s scripts. David holds a Master’s degree in computer science and an MA in Typeface Design and PhD from the University of Reading, UK. His cross-disciplinary PhD thesis studied visual similarity and coherence of characters in typefaces for continuous reading. Together with Mary C. Dyson et al. they run Design Regression, an online mini journal about design for reading and reading research.
Neville Brody is Professor of Communication at the Royal College of Art and one of the most celebrated graphic designers of his generation – a leading typographer and internationally recognised art director and brand strategist. The founder of design agency Brody Associates, he established his reputation as creative director of the 1980’s Face magazine, subsequently working with record labels, magazines and a range of international clients including Apple, BBC online, The Times, Channel 4, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and the England football team. His hugely influential work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications, most notably the two-volume monograph The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, which was accompanied by an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Neville Brody has received numerous awards and honours, including the D&AD President’s Award (2011) and a Prince Philip Designers Prize (2010). Brody became dean of the School of Communication and head of the Visual Communication Programme at the Royal College of Art in January 2011. In 2018 he became Professor of Communication.
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A graduate of the Studio of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice (Slovakia), with a teaching position there since 2009. In 2015 he finished doctorate study at the Faculty of Arts in Košice and during the years 2013‒2014 he completed a study stay at the Studio of Type Design and Typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). In terms of graphic design, he focuses on type design, typography and editorial design. He actively cooperates with LTTR/CORP on the creation of skeleton fonts with the digital tool LTTR/INK. He is the author and co‐author of the publications about typography in Slovakia — Fonts SK: Digitized type design in Slovakia; Neon lights and advertising typography in eastern Slovakia till 1989. He has been designing and publishing own typefaces under the type foundry CarnokyType, since 2010. He was awarded at the Slovak Design Award 2016 and 2018 – Communication Design.
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Anastasia Chourmouziadi studied in three different academic environments (Chemistry, Architecture, Archaeology) trying to jointly apply “positivist” methodology, creative design and theoretical enquiry on the field of cultural heritage management, exhibitions, and museums. Her views and proposals have been tested in cultural management master plans, museum exhibitions (such as the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum), archaeological sites rehabilitation (such as Dispilio lake-side settlement reconstruction), and experimental exhibitions, while they are also presented in publications, and conferences. She is Associate Professor of Museology at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, and Director of the Museology Laboratory of the same university. Her main research interests are theory and methodology of museum practice, exhibition design, public archaeology, as well as the impact of digital technologies on the above.
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Matthieu Cortat-Roller is the Head of the Master Type Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a BA from the Department of Visual Communication, ECAL, and an MA from the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France. Before his position at ECAL, he was scientific advisor for the Museum of Print and Graphic Communication in Lyon. His current practice is now split between type eduction, retail fonts (distributed by 205 Type Foundry) and custom projects for clients such as Caran d’Ache, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Eurosport, the Olympic Museum, or cosmetic brand La Prairie. In the recent years he coordinated two publications related to the politics of type design, Archigraphiae, Rationalist Lettering and Architecture in Fascist Rome and Aram, the later focusing on Syriac script and the situation of Aramaic-speaking community in the Middle East and in its diaspora.
Η Ιωάννα Δελφίνο είναι απόφοιτος του Τμήματος Γραφιστικής του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας και των City & Guilds of London Art School και University of Westminster με μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στις «Τέχνες εικονογράφησης» και τον «Σχεδιασμό και μέσα τέχνης» αντίστοιχα. Εργάζεται στον χώρο του βιβλίου, διδάσκει (με σύμβαση) στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής & Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας του ΠαΔΑ όπου επίσης είναι Υποψήφια Διδάκτορας. Διακρίθηκε στον Πανελλήνιο διαγωνισμό Χαρακτικής του Μουσείου Κατσουλίδη (2004). Συμμετείχε στην ελληνική αντιπροσωπεία του Δ΄ Διαβαλκανικού Συμποσίου Εικαστικής Δημιουργίας στη Σαμοθράκη και σε πολλές ομαδικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό, με πιο πρόσφατη τη «Χαρακτική. Από την προϊστορία στην Ελλάδα του σήμερα».
Mary Dyson started by studying experimental psychology with a PhD in perception. She then moved into the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK, teaching and researching theoretical and empirical approaches to typography and graphic communication. She has retired from her post in Typography & Graphic Communication and enjoys writing and editing academic texts, in particular working with former students/colleagues who are now friends.
Craig Eliason earned a PhD in Art History from Rutgers University in 2002. His scholarship since then has focused on the history of type design. He has presented and published research in numerous venues including Design Issues, Printing History, and Typographica. He founded Teeline Fonts in 2010, and his designs have been been exhibited at the Gutenberg Museum, honored at the Morisawa Type Design Competition, and selected for the Society of Typographic Arts 100. He is Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he has been teaching since 2002.
Amelia Fontanel is a curator at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection, a renowned library that collects on design, typography, and the book arts. She earned a MS in Printing Technology and Design from RIT, and a BA in Art History from Nazareth College of Rochester. She is responsible for teaching with some 30 different presses and thousands of fonts of analog type in the Cary’s Technology Collection. She actively lectures and publishes on the history and practice of printing and typography. Fontanel has held board positions with the American Printing History Association and the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
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George Gabrellis was born in 1979 in Rhodes Island, lives and works in Athens. He is married and has a child. He obtained his degree in Graphic Arts Technology (TEI of Athens) in 2003, a postgraduate degree in Graphic Arts & Multimedia (Hellenic Open University) in 2011 and a postgraduate degree in Pedagogical Studies Education (Athens Higher School of Pedagogy and Technology). He is a PhD candidate at the University of West Attica. He speaks and writes English and German. He worked for 11 years in the printing industry. For 6 years he was a Laboratory Associate of the Department of Graphic Arts Technology of TEI of Athens and later for 2 years Academic Associate of the Department of Graphic Arts Technology of the Department of Graphic and Visual Communication, Univ. West Attica. At the same time, he has taught in the departments of Printers of the EPAS of OAED for one year. From 2018 until today he is a permanent employee of the Hellenic National Printing Office in the Directorate of Printing and Bookbinding, Print Sector. He is a founding member of the Pan-Hellenic Association of Graphic Arts Technology Graduates (HELGRAMED) (2013) and a member of its Board since its foundation until today. He has served for 4 years as Cashier of the Association and for 2 years as its General Secretary, while for the next 2 years he has been the Vice President of the Association. Ηe is currently Cashier of the Association again. He is a founding member of the Graphic Arts Research, Development and Engineering Institute (GARDEN Institute) (2016) and a member of its Board since its foundation until today.
Dr Chrysoula Gatsou is an Associate Professor at the University of West Attica, Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, where she works since 1987. She is the Director of the Graphic Arts Technology sector over the last four consecutive years. She holds a BSc in Graphic Arts Technology, an MSc degree in Interactive Multimedia (University of Westminster, UK) and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction. Her research was presented at international conferences and has been published in books and peer-reviewed academic journals. She has more than 30 years of experience in education, training, project and research within the Greek and European Graphic Arts and Media sectors.
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Dr Elissavet Georgiadou lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied graphic arts, photography, communication, film and educational hypermedia. She teaches print media, electronic publishing and documentary production at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Graphic Arts Technology at the School of Applied Arts, Hellenic Open University. Her research has been presented at international conferences and was published in books and peer-reviewed academic journals. She also produces and directs documentaries.
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O Νίκος Γιούρης γεννήθηκε το 1990 στη Θεσσαλονίκη και εργάζεται ως σχεδιαστής από το 2012. Κατέχει ΜΑ in Design από τον ΑΚΤΟ και το Middlesex University με αντικείμενο τον πολιτικό σχεδιασμό. Το 2015 ίδρυσε το γραφείο οπτικής επικοινωνίας Slab το οποίο προσφέρει υπηρεσίες σχεδιασμού και δημιουργικές λύσεις με έμφαση στη λεπτομέρεια, από το πρώτο σχέδιο μέχρι το τελικό αποτέλεσμα, για επιχειρήσεις και οργανισμούς από την Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό. Στόχος του είναι να δημιουργεί μαζί με τους συνεργάτες του πρωτότυπους οπτικούς κόσμους που θα αφηγούνται μια ιστορία μέσα από μία ολιστική σχεδιαστικά προσέγγιση, από το λογότυπο, τη συσκευασία και την οπτική ταυτότητα μέχρι τη φωτογραφία και το βίντεο. Σημαντικό για αυτόν είναι οι εργασίες που αναλαμβάνει να έχουν θετικό αντίκτυπο όχι μόνο επιχειρηματικά και σχεδιαστικά αλλά και κοινωνικά. Ατομικά, αλλά και μέσω του γραφείου του, ο Νίκος Γιούρης βραβεύτηκε στα Ελληνικά Βραβεία Σχεδιασμού Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας ΕΒΓΕ. Παράλληλα με την εργασία του αρθρογραφεί στο +Design, δίνει διαλέξεις, δημιουργεί ντοκιμαντέρ, όπως το No Politica (2021), και είναι συνδημιουργός (με τον Νάσο Κάπα) της πλατφόρμας Greek Design Scene.
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Γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1973. Αποφοίτησε από το Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών της Πολυτεχνικής Σχολής του ΑΠΘ και εκπόνησε τη διδακτορική του διατριβή στην Ακουστική στο Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών της ΠΣ του ΑΠΘ. Διδάσκει από το 2005 στο Τμήμα Κινηματογράφου μαθήματα της ενότητας Ήχος & Μουσική στον Κινηματογράφο, όπου και είναι αναπληρωτής καθηγητής. Έχει πραγματοποιήσει 22 ανακοινώσεις σε διεθνή και ελληνικά συνέδρια, έχει συμμετάσχει σε συλλογικούς τόμους καθώς και σε σεμινάρια, ημερίδες, και workshops. To 2015 πήρε ερευνητική υποτροφία από το Κοινωφελές Ίδρυμα Ιωάννη Σ. Λάτση. Φοιτητές και φοιτήτριές του έχουν βραβευθεί για τη δουλειά τους στον ήχο σε ταινίες μυθοπλασίας και ντοκιμαντέρ. Εργάζεται ως ελεύθερος επαγγελματίας sound designer και έχει συνεργαστεί με πολλούς Έλληνες σκηνοθέτες για κινηματογραφικές ταινίες, ντοκιμαντέρ, θεατρικά κ.ά. Έχει συνθέσει μουσική για τον κινηματογράφο και το θέατρο, μόνος του, με τον Θοδωρή Παπαδημητρίου και με το μουσικό σχήμα the Prefabricated Quartet, του οποίου είναι ιδρυτικό μέλος. Επίσης έχει συνθέσει κι ερμηνεύσει Μουσική για ταινίες του σιωπηλού κινηματογράφου σε συνεργασία με σημαντικούς καλλιτέχνες, ανάμεσα στους οποίους ο Σάκης Παπαδημητρίου, αλλά και με ομάδες φοιτητών και φοιτητριών του Τμήματος Κινηματογράφου. Είναι μέλος του Ελληνικού Ινστιτούτου Ακουστικής (ΕΛΙΝΑ) και της Ελληνικής Ακαδημίας Κινηματογράφου (ΕΑΚ). Το 2019 απέσπασε το Βραβείο Ήχου Ίρις, μαζί με τους Βαρυμποπιώτη Κ. και Αθανασόπουλο Δ., για τον ήχο της ταινίας 1968 (σκην. Τ. Μπουλμέτης).
Dr. Diane Gromala is a Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her research bridges Design and Technology and focuses on innovative health-tech for managing chronic conditions. Dr.Gromala’s pioneering immersive virtual reality (VR) was recognized by Design, HCI and Health awards, from Google’s Moonshot to the Cannes Film Festival’s Health Lions and the AIGA’s first Technological Innovation Award. Her interdisciplinary research is supported by the Paul Allen and MacArthur Foundations, National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation in the U.S., and counterparts in Canada—CHIR, NSERC and CFI. Internationally-recognized as a STEM expert, Dr. Gromala sits on boards of tech companies and reviews university curricula that bridge design and technology, including those at MIT. She authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and co-authored the MITPress book Windows and Mirrors. Her design+software systems are in 20 hospitals and clinics, and have been exhibited worldwide at MOMA, TEDx, Discovery Channel and the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
Διευθυντής σχεδιασμού της Paragraph Design/Aθήνα. Διδάσκει “Γραφιστική” και “Διαχείριση και Δεοντολογία Σχεδιασμού” στο Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής. Κάτοχος ΒΑ (Hons) του Harrow College στο γραφιστικό πληροφοριακό σχεδιασμό και ΜΑ του Central St. Martins στο γραφιστικό τυπογραφικό σχεδιασμό. Έχει συνεργαστεί με διαφημιστικές εταιρείες στην Αθήνα, από τη θέση του διευθυντή σχεδιασμού. Συμμετείχε στην οργάνωση και διεύθυνση του σχεδιασμού της εικόνας και της ταυτότητας των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων της Αθήνας. Με την Paragraph Design σχεδίασε τις μασκότ των Ολυμπιακών και Παραολυμπιακών Αγώνων, όπως και τη γραμματοσειρά τους. Έχει σχεδιάσει εταιρικά και εμπορικά γραφιστικά προϊόντα για ελληνικές και πολυεθνικές εταιρείες και εταιρείες του Δημοσίου, όπως σήματα τραπεζών, συσκευασίες, σηματοδότηση, γραμματοσειρές, τμήμα των περιπτέρων της ΕΧPO 2000 και 2005 κ.τ.λ. Συγγραφέας του βιβλίου Ολυμπιακά Εικονογράμματα, Σχεδιασμός και Σημειολογία, Εκδόσεις Παπασωτηρίου.
Evanghelos Hekimoglou, Economist Historian, PhD, M.A., B.A.
Principal Curator of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki (since March 2010). He has published approximately a hundred papers and thirty books, many of them in co-operation with scholars of other disciplines. His research focuses on the social and economic history of Ottoman Empire and Greece (ehekimoglou.blogspot.com).
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1971 born in Heidelberg, Germany. 1994–1998 study of Graphic Design at the Fachhochschule Mannheim. 1998/2000 postgraduate study at the KABK Den Haag. Next to Underware he is also involved in the contemporary art center West Den Haag. Lives in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
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Professor Leila M. Hernández is an artist, designer, educator and a fervent admirer of popular culture and ancient folklore. She studied Diseño Artesanal (Handcraft Design) at the Universidad Dr. Jose Matias Delgado in her country-of-origin El Salvador, where she learned about ceramics, textiles, and metals. She received an MFA in graphic design from the University of Florida and currently lives and works in Edinburg, Texas.
A global artist, she has lived in Florence and Paris studying printmaking, drawing, painting, and art history and visited many museums and cultural centers that have influenced her artistic background (The Vatican Museum, the Uffizi, Museo Nacional Del Prado, The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, and the Hermitage). She enjoys and is receptive to the color, texture, and compositions in local handcrafts of the countries that she has had the fortune of visiting and those that she has visited through their cultural artwork, that are immersed in color, texture, and pattern. Her research is mostly related to contemporary issues related to popular culture; she also explores the mixture of cultures, ideas, and opinions in the border area between South Texas and Northern Mexico which she has presented at national and international conferences.
John Hudson is a type designer, font maker, and occasional writer and lecturer on text encoding and display technologies. He is co-founder of Tiro Typeworks (1994), a digital type foundry specialising in custom fonts for multilingual publishing and computing. He has designed or collaborated on typefaces for many scripts, including Arabic, Bangla, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Latin, and Telugu, and has made some of the most technically complex fonts in current use. He is a contributor to the Unicode Standard and a member of the W3C Webfonts working group.
Mary Ikoniadou is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the Leads School of Arts. Her research interests center around the intersection of visuality and politics with a particular focus on the entanglement of printed matter, migration and the Cold War. She currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of European Periodical Studies and co-runs the research project ‘The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders’.
Stelios Irakleous obtained his PhD from Leiden University. He holds a BA from the University of Cyprus and an MA from Leiden University. His research is focused on Karamanlidika, Ottoman language and literature, and the linguistic and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has taught as a lecturer at Leiden University and University of Cyprus.
Born in Wanssum, the Netherlands, 1976. Studied visual communication at the art academy Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht and followed the post-graduate course typography and type design at the Royal Academy of Art Den Haag. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Always on the look out for the 5kg jars of Nutella. Speaks with a Southern accent. Interested in languages. And dialects. And slang. And script. And alphabets. And type. Of course. Likes to ride a bike instead of a car. As fast as possible.
Janneke Janssen is an awards-winning typographic designer, who holds degrees in Visual Arts (Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht, NL) and in Reading Type and Typography (READSEARCH, PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt, BE). She is extending typographic research in a PhD position (Flemish Scientific Research Foundation/affiliation Hasselt University) at READSEARCH (under supervision of Prof. Dr. Ann Bessemans and Prof. Dr. Adriaan van der Weel) since November 2019. She explores the effects of legibility/readability in search reading through (typo)graphic navigation and index-typography in non-linear magazines with large-scale documentation in this era of digitization by means of texts, images, grid systems and their relations.
Dr Purba Joshi is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at IDC School of Design with over 16 years of industrial design and packaging design experience. Her interest areas include basic design courses, design for healthcare, social inclusion, CAD and creativity.
Gabriel Juliano is an educator and Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. He works in the Critical Media Art Studio (cMAS) under Dr. Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda’s supervision. In his doctoral research, Juliano investigates popular media artifacts, like films and music videos created by Global South artists as transformative epistemologies – through critical cultural studies and analysis, he unveils knowledge creations from Brazilian contemporary media arts projects. He has presented his research at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) congress in 2021 and at Borderline Sonorities’ Conference from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Juliano has a degree in Design from the College of Economics Science of Campinas, Brazil, and a Master of Arts degree from SFU. He works at the university teaching art, design, and communication courses as an instructor and teaching assistant.
Tim Kagiri is an educator and an Interactive Arts and Technology MSc student at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Working with the distinguished Dr. Diane Gromala at the Pains Studies Lab, he designed a patient-centred VR dashboard for chronic pain patients. Tim’s research is concerned with the interaction design, and use of wearable technologies for ubiquitous healthcare; among rural women for patient out-of-clinic monitoring and prediction of health events in maternal health. Tim has worked in industry as a human-centred designer for the last ten years in Nairobi, Kenya. Has experience in communication, graphic design, and interaction design, building engagement value through graphic visuals and UX/UI in advertising, digital and print agencies. An enthusiast for continuous learning, he is a TA for IAT102 (Graphic Design) at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT), Teaching graphic design principles and practical and theoretical knowledge for the development of design projects.
Panagiotis Kapos was born in Athens. He holds a PhD Degree from Panteion University (Department of Communication, Media and Culture). His thesis examined the digital transition of the book publishing industry in the new ecosystem of value and networking focusing on the Greek case. He has been professionally active since 2005 in the book publishing industry and in cultural management and communication. Panagiotis Kapos is the founder and the managing director of Oasis Publications. He also cooperates with various organizations in the publishing industry as a scientific-research collaborator. His research interests lie in the fields of digital transition of the book publishing industry, Cultural and Creative Industries, digital communication and the media economy.
Antigoni Karamani is a lecturer at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, in University of West Attica since 1997, teaching color reproduction, digital image processing, typography and premedia. At the same time, has taught at the Vocational Training Institute (Manpower Employment Organization: Ο.Α.Ε.Δ.), at the department of ‘Typographic design of forms and Multimedia applications’. In 1988 obtained the Certification in Graphic Arts Technology (ΤΕΙ of Athens). In 2000 obtained the Postgraduate degree in Pedagogical Studies Education (Athens Higher School of Pedagogy and Technology) and in 2013 a Postgraduate Master degree in Graphic Arts & Multimedia (Hellenic Open University). For 30 years has worked in the graphic arts industry. She is currently working on her PhD at the University of West Attica.
Ο Ευάγγελος Κασσαβέτης ζει στην Tρίπολη όπου σχεδιάζει στο δημιουργικό γραφείο που ίδρυσε το 1991. Φοίτησε αρχικά στο Tμήμα Hλεκτρολόγων Mηχανικών της Πολυτεχνικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών και είναι πτυχιούχος του Τμήματος Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτισμού της Σχολής Ανθρωπιστικών Σπουδών του Ελληνικού Ανοιχτού Πανεπιστημίου με μεταπτυχιακή επιμόρφωση στην Ιστορία και Φιλοσοφία των Επιστημών. Ειδικεύεται στην τυπογραφική και καλλιτεχνική επιμέλεια εκδόσεων, την οινική συσκευασία, την οπτική ταυτότητα και την επικοινωνία του πολιτισμού. Έργα του έχουν διακριθεί σε ελληνικούς και ευρωπαϊκούς διαγωνισμούς. Αρθρογραφεί για θέματα πολιτισμού και έχει δώσει διαλέξεις σε συνέδρια και ημερίδες για την τυπογραφία και την οπτική επικοινωνία. Παράλληλα ασχολείται συστηματικά με την έρευνα και τη μελέτη ειδικών θεμάτων της ιστορίας της τυπογραφίας και του οπτικού πολιτισμού.
Sol Kawage is a practising information designer in Italy and Austria. Her work revolves around wayfinding, environmental graphic design, procedural instruction design and complex typography. She strives to create conceptual order in complex domains, and to convey this order to users and visitors through efficient and aesthetic visual systems.
Richard Kegler formed P22 Type Foundry in 1994 and after starting the Book Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, became the director of the Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, NY. Richard has spent his career combining an interest in traditional printing crafts with entrepreneaurial initiatives. His current project Dry Inc. focuses on pre-digital printing and typography and new printing tool development.
Elisavet Kelidou is a graphic designer and a PhD candidate at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the University of the Aegean, where she teaches Graphic Design at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Informatics. In the context of her professional activity she worked for the Greek Ministry of Culture and other Cultural Organizations on the design and visual management of museum exhibitions, as well as the creation of interactive cultural applications. Her research interests lie in the process of concept design and visualization of ideas and messages within exhibition narratives.
Ralph Kenke is a Design Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he teaches Visual Identities, Wayfinding and Interactive Design. He graduated with a Master in Design from UNSW Sydney and earned his PhD at the University of Newcastle. Ralph is an Industry Professional member of the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) and a research member at the Future Art Science Technology Laboratory. His research and practice in visual identities expand into interaction design, typographic characteristics in logotypes, graphic design systems and media art installations. Ralph has worked as a designer and researcher in Australia, USA, France, and Germany. His work was honoured with a Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence and several AGDA awards.
Apostolos Kordas is a Laboratory Teaching Staff at the University of Thessaly, Greece, teaching creative media and audiovisual practices at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, where he works since 2020. For more than 20 years, he has taught digital image processing, typography and interactive multimedia at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication of the University of West Attica. He holds a BSc in Graphic Arts, an MSc degree in Graphic Arts and Interactive Multimedia (Hellenic Open University), and is currently working on his PhD, focusing on the Visual Communication and graphic innovations in cinematic environments. For more than 30 years, Apostolos is actively involved in the fields of education, research projects, visual communication, typography, design, creative media and audiovisual practices.
Born in Kerava, Finland 1975. Over the years 1995–2001 he studied graphic design at the Lahti Polytechnic/Institute of Design. During 1998–1999 he also studied at the KABK in Den Haag. Lives with his wife Ulrika and their son in Helsinki, Finland.
Viktor Koen Chair BFA Illustration, BFA Cartooning, School of Visual Arts
Education BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; MFA, School of Visual Arts
One-person exhibitions include Benaki Museum, Athens; United Photo Industries; Type Directors Club; Coningsby Gallery, London; Slovak National Museum, Bratislava; Photography Centre of Athens; Strychnin Gallery, Berlin; Fraser Gallery of Bethesda, MD; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
Clients include Atlantic Records, Roadrunner Records, BBC, Delta Airlines, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Penguin Random House, Doubleday, HarperCollins, Rizzoli, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publications include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN, Men’s Journal, Bloomberg, Fortune, Money, Forbes, Nation, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Tor, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times
Awards and honors include Award of Excellence, Communication Arts; Gold Award, Graphis; First Prize, Digital Hall of Fame; Kounio/Hasselblad Award; Gold Award, Folio; First Prize, EVGE Award; First Prize, Viridian Gallery National Juried Exhibition; Award for Excellence, Society of Publication Designers; Speaker, TEDx, Athens
Vassiliki Kokla graduated from the Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, TEI-A and from the Studies in European Civilization, H.O.U. She holds a PhD (Image-based analysis of inks for Art Conservation) from University of Westminster (UoW), London, U.K. She is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, University of West Attica (UWA). She has taught a variety of courses at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels (U.W.A., National and Kapodistrian University, H.O.U., TEI-A, University of Peloponnese, University of Ioannina, A.E.A.A.). She has published her work in peer-reviewed international journals and she has presented her research work at international conferences. She has also participated in research projects in Greece and abroad (NOESIS, diARTgnosis, SAVE ART, ect.). Her research interests include innovative procedures on the documentation and conservation of archive documents, such as texture analysis of archive materials images.
Marianthi Koliomarou is a lecturer at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication, Specialization of Graphic Arts Technology in University of West Attica since 2018, teaching courses: “Pre-Press-Premedia Technologies I and II-Digital Imposition”,”Advanced Prepress Applications”,”Quality Control Systems and Graphic Arts Standards”,”Management, Cost Accounting and Production Planning on Graphic Arts’ Procedures”. Since 1978 until 2018 was teaching in Technological Institute of Athens. She is currently working on her PhD at the University of West Attica.She obtained her degree in Graphic Arts Technology (TEI of Athens), a postgraduate degree in Graphic Arts & Multimedia (Hellenic Open University) and a postgraduate degree in Pedagogical Studies Education (Athens Higher School of Pedagogy and Technology).
Type designer, book designer, type researcher and type consultant. Art director of Paratype. The 9th recipient of the Prix Charles Peignot (2013). Winner of Granshan, ED Awards, Red Dot. Leading designer of PT Sans and PT Serif, Circe, Golos, and the new type system of Sber. Wrote a book on typography for beginners Live Typography (in Russian) which was first issued in 2007 and re-issued in 2008, 2010 and 2012, and a series of type-related articles. Presented at ATypI, TYPO Berlin, TypeCon, TYPO Labs, Serebro Nabora, Typofest, Typetersburg and other conferences and typo meetings.
Yorgos Koumaridis works as an archivist/historian at the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA-MIET) in Thessaloniki since 2008. He writes stories from the archives at the blog eliamietthessaloniki.wordpress.com. He studied history at the University of Thessaly and Birkbeck College. He has published articles on the history of 1940s in Greece and the history of Thessaloniki and has presented archives in journals and conferences. He loves tracing (when processing an archive) items related to book history, typography, and graphic design.
Koutrouditsos Christos was born in Thessaloniki in 1966. He holds a BSc in Graphic Arts, an MSc degree in Graphic Arts and Interactive Multimedia (Hellenic Open University). Christos is the co-founder and the managing director of an innovative printing company which involves all currently digital printing technologies. For more than 30 years, he is working, searching all experimental digital image printing, variable data managing and creating solutions for his printing company and its affiliates. Christos has designed and publish a CMYK Color Guide according to ISO 12647, as a standard tool for digital and offset printing industry. Currently is a PhD candidate at the University of West Attica, Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication.
Hairul Latiff lectures in Type Making, Design Communication, Brand Identity, and Packaging Design at the School of Art Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University and Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. His works express his interest in visual semiotics, pattern making, and mythology found in traditional cultures of Southeast Asia. He currently sits as the Creative Director for B.RU Collective and Lokka Lekkr Maker Studio in Singapore – where they use art and design as a catalyst in encouraging cross collaborations among makers, collectives, and the community, resulting in an enriched cultural experience for everyone. His focus revolves around re-inventing the learning of art and design. One of his main commissioning works is re-defining Singapore’s identity through Image-Making and the placemaking experience.
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Gerry Leonidas is a Professor of Typography at the University of Reading, UK. He is the programme director for three Masters programmes on typeface design and typography, and director of the TDi summer course. His work focuses on typeface design processes across scripts, and Greek typeface design and typography. He is also interested in typographic education and the development of disciplines of study relating to fields of practice, and the establishment of paradigms in typeface design. Gerry works regularly on knowledge transfer projects and community outreach. Collections and archives, including ephemera and evidence of making, are central to Gerry’s approach to contextualise and interpret practice, and inform theoretical discussions. He draws a direct line from this research to the development of models for research-informed practice in postgraduate, PhD, post-doc, and professional environments. By extension, he champions the use of qualitative analysis of artefacts to embed typographic discourse in related disciplines, as well as wider professional and technical fields. His PhD supervision focuses on theoretical issues; qualitative analysis and reframing narratives; design processes and user preferences; archives-based design history; and user-focused issues. He is increasingly active in developing research methods for diverse student bodies at postgraduate levels, with particular focus on archives-based research. Amongst other roles, he is a co-founder of ISTVC and Granshan Foundation, and past President of ATypI. Within these organisations he works to extend membership and leadership outside north-western regions, and improve transparency and mentorship. He is particularly proud of the foundation of the second Working Seminar series, convened at Colombo (2019), Puebla (2019), and Amiens (2020).
Vangelis Liakos was born in Thessaloniki in 1976; he lives and works between Thessaloniki and Athens. He studied Graphic Design with Typography (BA Hons) at the University of Plymouth, and earned a Master’s degree from the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies of Goldsmiths University of London, with a specialization in photography. In 2000, he co-founded Beetroot design agency together with Alexis Nikou and Yiannis Charalampopoulos. In the 20-plus years since, Beetroot has been a leader in the visual communication and creative design sector. The numerous distinctions that Beetroot is awarded each year in prestigious international events include the ADC*E Awards (Art Directors Club of Europe) in 2016, the Grand EBGE (Greek Design and Illustration Awards) in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020, the Grand Ermis and Agency of the Year at the Ermis Awards in 2016, the prestigious Red Dot Design Agency of the Year Award as the best visual communication agency internationally in 2011, the superior distinction Design Agency of the Year at the European Design Awards in 2008, and several distinctions each year at the D&AD, Dieline and Pentawards. Vangelis is instrumental in the various shows of visual artwork created and exhibited by Beetroot. Among them, the show entitled “Monsters of Greek Mythology” was first presented in 2011 in Berlin and has since then travelled to several museums and exhibition spaces in Greece, Europe, and the USA; it is continuously expanded with the addition of new mythical creatures and interactive activities. Vangelis has given talks as an invited speaker at design schools, universities, and conferences.
Elena Bartomeu Magaña has a PhD in Fine Arts. She is a designer, author and researcher, working on visual identity, meaning and perception. She has taught Typography for undergraduate students, as well as Visual Identity in the Design Degree at EINA, Barcelona. She develops and applies participatory methodologies to workshops and codesign processes and teaches design at the Master Universitari de Recerca en Art i Disseny de Barcelona (EINA-UAB).
Christos Mais is a teaching fellow at the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly. He holds a PhD from the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, 2020. He is a founding member of the Network for the Research of Typography and Publishing (DETE) and of the Greek electronic journal on book, culture and politics Marginalia. Christos combines professional and research expertise working in the Greek publishing sector since 2008. He is the co-founder and senior editor of the Greek publishing house Psifides (2019–). As a researcher his interests concentrate on the history of 20th century Greek publishing, and the intellectual history of the Greek left. His work so far is well documented in academic publications, proceedings, presentations in international conferences and in popular media.
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Michail Manonas was born in 1992 in Patras and graduated from the 2nd Technical High School of Patras majoring in Applied Arts in 2010. He completed his studies in 2017 at the Department of Graphic Arts Technology (BSc) of Technological Education Institute of Athens. His thesis is about color management & printing of Byzantine Hagiography with screenprinting method and was awarded in the young stars category at the international competition “Fespa Printing Awards 2019” in Munich, Germany. He worked in screenprinting industry “FONDO” from 2014 to 2017, and since 2017 has been an external collaborator at the graphic arts company “G.A.R.D.EN Solutions”. He is also an active member of Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Μedia Τechnology Engineers “HELGRAMED”. In 2019 he served in the Hellenic Army Printing House as an operator of Offset printing machine. From 2018 until now he works as a printer at the National Mint of the Bank of Greece, while attending his postgraduate studies on Graphic Arts – Multimedia (MSc) at the Hellenic Open University.
Euphrosyne Manou was born and raised in Athens, in 1996. She studied the Technology of Graphic Arts at the department of Graphic Design in the Technological Institution of Athens, from which she graduated in 2020. From March 2022 she is taking part in the Master’s Program “MSc Animation” of the University of West Attica. In 2018 she attended a mandatory practicum semester on artistic bookbindery and was later hired to work as a traditional bookbinder in a workshop and a printing company. Ever since 2020 she works as a WordPress developer and graphic designer.
Costas Mantzalos was trained in visual arts in the UK. He also registered for a higher research degree and investigated the survey of post-modern graphic arts in Cyprus. His first academic post was in 1989, while in 1991 he was appointed as a Head of the Department. He is currently the Dean of the School of Arts, Communication and Cultural Studies (dac.frederick.ac.cy) at Frederick University.
Parallel to his academic career, he has been involved in numerous international art and design consultations. Since 1996 he is the cofounder of the TWO|FOUR|TWO art group (twofourtwo.com), with architect Constantinos Kounnis. The group lives and believes in Art as an evolutionary institution which changes in time and mutates with the passing of time, however, like democracy, remains a supreme power vested in the people and characterized by recognition of equality of opinions and voices. The group has had an active involvement in the international art scene.
Eleni Martini is a graphic designer and lecturer in the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece, https://gd.uniwa.gr/en/profile/martini-eleni/. She holds a BA (Department of Graphic Design, TEI Athens) and an MA in Electronic Graphics (Coventry University, UK). Scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Working experience at magazine and advertising companies, plus design for printing and interactive media as an independent designer. Teaching since 1994 Visual Identity and Communication Design of Messages and Information, Social and Advertising Campaign and Branding. She participated in a number of international educational projects, workshops, exhibitions and gave lectures in conferences. Her research focuses on graphic design history, teaching-design methodologies, social design and the impact of Type in everyday life. She is also interested in calligraphy.
Klimis Mastoridis is Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication, Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences (SHSS), the University of Nicosia, and Director of the “Institute for the Study of Typography & Visual Communication”.
Klimis is the initiator of the idea and the driving force behind the “International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication” (ICTVC), director and editor of the academic journal Hyphen, a typographic forum, and author of the books Θέματα αναπαραγωγής και εκτύπωσης (Reproduction and printing issues; 1988, 93, 97, new ed. 2010) and Casting the Greek Newspaper: a study of the morphology of the ‘ephemeris’ from its origins until the introduction of mechanical setting (1999).
His research interests include printing history and technology, and typographic design for visual communication.
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Georgios D. Matthiopoulos teaches at the Department of Graphic Design & Visual Communication, University of West Attica, Athens, and his research work is in the fields of Type Design, Typography and Graphic Arts History. He is a founding member and type designer of the non-profit organization Greek Font Society. He has also designed many books, art catalogues, and museum exhibitions and contributes articles and monographs on typography in magazines, seminars and Conferences.
Dr María Pérez Mena is an award-winning graphic and type designer. She is postdoctoral researcher at the legibility research group READSEARCH at PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University. María teaches typography and type design in the BA in Graphic Design at PXL-MAD and is lecturer in the International Master program ‘Reading Type & Typography’ and the Master program ‘Graphic Design’ at the same institution. She received her PhD “with the highest distinction” from University of Basque Country and is a member of the Data Science Institute UHasselt.
Ο Δρ Ρωσσέτος Μετζητάκος είναι απόφοιτος του τμήματος Γραφιστικής του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας (1996). Κάτοχος Master of Arts in Visual Communication του Birmingham U.C.E. University of Central England της Αγγλίας (1998), όπου απέκτησε και διδακτορικό τίτλο (PhD) με ειδίκευση στην «Οπτική Επικοινωνία και τα Διαδραστικά Πολυμέσα» (2006). Επίκουρος Καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής και Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής (2009-σήμερα), με γνωστικό αντικείμενο «Γραφιστική με Πολυμέσα». Διευθυντής Τομέα Γραφιστικής (2017-σήμερα). Βασικό μέλος του ερευνητικού εργαστήριου «Σχεδιασμού (Design), Αρχιτεκτονικής Εσωτερικών Χώρων και Οπτικοακουστικής Τεκμηρίωσης» (2015-2022). Υπεύθυνος και δημιουργός του εργαστηρίου Γραφιστικής Πολυμέσων (2006). Καθηγητής των Μεταπτυχιακών Προγραμμάτων Σπουδών: α) «Ευφυής Συσκευασία: Νέες Τεχνολογίες και Marketing» (2018-2022) και β) «Animation Δισδιάστατο και Τρισδιάστατο κινούμενο σχέδιο» (2021-2022), του τμήματος Γραφιστικής. Έχει πάρει μέρος σε επιστημονικά συνέδρια ως ομιλητής και έχει δημοσιεύσεις σε πρακτικά συνεδρίων. Έχει ειδικότητα στο σχεδιασμό ιστοσελίδων και έχει σχεδιάσει μεταξύ άλλων την ιστοσελίδα του Πανεπιστημίου Δυτικής Αττικής.
Η Ελένη Μοσχανδρέου σπούδασε Business Administration & Computer Information Systems στο Αμερικάνικο Κολέγιο (Deree College) και Σπουδές στις Φυσικές Επιστήμες στο Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο. Είναι κάτοχος του μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου σπουδών Διαχείριση και Τεχνολογία Ποιότητα του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (ΕΑΠ) και φοιτά στο Μεταπτυχιακό Δίπλωμα Ειδίκευσης Γραφικές Τέχνες-Πολυμέσα στη Σχολή Εφαρμοσμένων Τεχνών του ΕΑΠ. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα ως Σχεδιάστρια Βιομηχανικού Σχεδίου (2D/3D σχεδιασμό, 3D printing, prototyping) για περισσότερα από 25 έτη. Έχει ασχοληθεί με κατεργασίες υλικών με laser (για ερευνητικούς και εμπορικούς σκοπούς) και πρόσφατα άρχισε να ασχολείται με την εκπαίδευση αλλοδαπών ενηλίκων σε τεχνικά θέματα συντήρησης αεροσκαφών.
Fraser Muggeridge (UK, 1973) is a graphic designer and director of Fraser Muggeridge studio, based in London.Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters, marketing material, exhibitions and websites, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with typographic form and letterform playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object. He completed a practice-based PhD entitled ‘A Knowing Wrongness: Innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional techniques’ at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, in January 2022. Work is held at the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and The University of Reading.
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Maria Nicholas leads user experience strategy and research at Skillsoft, a global education technology company. She was previously Director of User Experience at Moody’s Analytics and Executive Director of UX at Kaplan, Inc. in New York. Maria works to embed user-centered design methodologies into the product development process and advance design thinking as a strategic tool in large organizations through facilitative leadership and collaboration. She teaches user experience and visual design at General Assembly, a provider of practical technology courses for adult learners, and has been a visiting critic at FIT’s Creative Technology & Design program in New York. Maria holds undergraduate degrees in communications and graphic design and a Master’s degree in Advertising Design from Syracuse University.
Dr. Eleni Ntaflou is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Engineering (NTUA, Greece). Lab teaching staff and research associate at the National University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering, Section of Materials Science and Engineering. Her field of teaching and research is in Physical Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Materials Science specializing in Corrosion protection and Organic coating systems focusing in physicochemical –mechanical properties estimation and anticorrosive behavior of materials. Participating in teaching in the Interdisciplinary postgraduate program of Materials Science of NTUA. Joined national/International research and on site application projects in the field of corrosion protection involving organic coatings and cathodic protection of buildings. Scientific consultant at national/multinational coating industries participating in research innovation and standardized techniques application. Author of scientific papers and publications in national/International scientific journals. Member of scientific committees and reviewer of Conferences.
Researcher, designer and educator, visiting research fellow at the University of Reading, where in 2019 he completed his PhD ‘A new method of analysing printed type: the case of 15th-century Venetian romans’. Co-founder of CAST (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici), he has published several typefaces such as Zenon, Brevier, Sole Sans and others. Besides fine cuisine (and good wine, obviously) his main areas of interest are the process of type making and the development of typographic letterforms over the centuries. His research covers different type periods, from the 15th century (with the development of our roman letters), to modern type (notably the work of Bodoni), to 20th century type design – he is also a member of the Nebiolo History Project. He publishes articles and gives lectures across Europe.
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Filip Paldia is a Skeleton Type Design evangelist, co-founder of LTTR/CORP, the company that produces LTTR/INK (advanced stroke engine) and LTTR/SHOP (e-commerce solution for type designers), and a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under the supervision of Pavol Bálik. He has been working for about a decade as a user experience designer for software companies of various industry fields such as Glyphs and Konica Minolta. Filip is actively exploring frontier improvements through intersections between design and engineering disciplines. This resulted in his doctoral studies, where he is conducting research possibilities on how to train artificial neural networks for use in type design.
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Omiros Panayides is a graphic designer and an assistant professor at the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology and coordinator at the Semiotics and Visual Communication Lab. In 2016, he was one of the founding members (elected vice-president for 6 years), of the Cyprus Association of Graphic Designers and Illustrators. His professional practice of graphic design and academic research revolves around Book Arts, Zines, Type Design, Visual Archives and the Preservation of Visual Communication in Cyprus through the Graphic Design of Printed Matter.
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Dr Potis N. Papadakos is Emeritus Professor of Technological Institute of Athens (now University of West Attika) Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication (1979-2008). On 1968, he holds Chemical Engineer degree from of NTUA, on 1971 a Business Administration degree from of ASOEE and PhD in Engineering from NTUA main subject Inks from Greek raw material. Also he participate in 48 conference and special training on printing subjects. He worked as processes engineer of Film development Lab. of Finos Film and Cinemagic (1971-1989) and as General manager of VIOMEX Ltd (1977-2017) VIOMEX produce and distribute inks and machines and equipment in screen printing and digital printing industries raw materials. The same time teacher as professor of Graphic Art of TEI (1979-2008) and professor of DEREE College (1985-1989)and has been published two books of Graphic Art and peer-reviewed academic journals.
George S. Papadimitriou was born in Athens in 1981. He studied in the Technological Education Institute of Athens in the Faculty of Administration and Economics, Business Management Department, and graduated in 2005. He is completing his post graduate studies (MSc) at the University of West Attica in the Post Graduate Courses in the Public Administration and Management field. He is a holder of the International Certification CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate). He worked for several years in the field of Telecommunications and New Technologies starting as a staff member and being promoted to line manager. From 2009 to 2014 he worked as a freelancer in Al. Dousias Graphic Arts Company. Since 2014, he has been working in the Special Account of Research Funds of the National Technical University of Athens, as an administrative staff member responsible for the co-financed Research Projects. He has been a member of the Social Cooperative Company G.A.R.D.E.N. since 2016. In September 2021 he took part in the 47th Conference Iarigai and in the 52nd IC Conference as a technical staff member and as a member of a Scientific Article about IC writing team.
Athanassios K. Papakonstantinou, during: 1980-1983, studied for a 1st Basic Certificate Degree, on “Graphic Designing” at: The ‘Department of Graphic Design’, at: ‘The Higher Faculty of Graphic Design and Decorative Arts’. ‘Centre of Graduate Technical and Professional Education of Athens’. Also from: 1986 to 1993, studied for a 2nd Basic Certificate Degree: “Graphic Arts Technology” (: ‘Faculty of Graphic Arts and Art Studies’: ‘Department of Graphic Arts Technology’. Τ.Ε.Ι.). From: 2006 to 2011, studied for Postgraduate Master Degree: ‘Graphic Arts – Multimedia’ (: ‘Faculty of Applied Arts’ – Greek Open University, Patras). From: November, 2021, working on PhD Thesis, under the Supervisor: ‘School: Engineering. Department’: ‘Industrial Design and Production’. University of West Attica. During: 1986-2011, worked as a Self-employed (Freelance), on: ‘Graphic Arts’ Designing’. During: 1996 – 2022, being serving, under ‘Contract Contributor Assistant’, at the ‘Department of Graphic Arts’ Designing’, and ‘Graphic Arts Technology’.
Eteoklis Papanastasiou helps brands grow online. After a successful career in working for advertising agencies in Greece and Cyprus, he decided to continue independently with the aim to help small companies grow. Eteoklis’ philosophy is based on his ability to connect the dots between design and marketing perspectives in order to create memorable advertising campaigns! During the last three years, he was responsible for developing the digital communication strategy for more than 15 brands. He created more than 900 successful six-second bumper ads with just a laptop and one camera!
Over the past two decades, Dimitris has produced integrated design solutions for some of the most renowned global institutions, including the National Library of Greece, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, as well as iconic brands, such as Nike, Huawei, The New York Times, Volvo and Volvo Ocean Race, The Beatles, Fondazione Prada, MoMA and more. His work has been awarded many international design awards and industry distinctions.
Paschalis is an Associate Professor, founder and coordinator of the BA in Interactive Media and Animation and head of the Department of Design and Multimedia, University of Nicosia.
His research interests include user interface design, interactive media project management, stop motion animation and visual communication. He has been presenting his research and films at international conferences and festivals and has many years of professional experience in his field. He worked on funded research projects, served in academic, reviewing and curatorial committees, and has been appointed by the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education as member and chair of several teams for the accreditation of academic programs in Greek public Universities.
Type designer, researcher and educator who lives and works in London. Graduated from the Faculty of Design at Politecnico di Milano, in parallel to his design work, he taught Type Design, Lettering and Typography. In 2011, he moved to England where he got a Master in “Typeface design” at the University of Reading. From 2012 to 2019, he worked at Dalton Maag studio in London, where he held the role of senior type designer and team manager, contributing to the development of projects of international relevance. Since 2015, he has been a visiting lecturer on the Masters in “Typeface design” at the University of Reading, UK, and ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Besides designing and teaching, he is a researcher, focusing on the use of historical models in typeface design practice.
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Evangelia holds a PhD and Master’s degree (MArch) in Urban Design from the University of Nottingham as well as a Bachelor’s (BArch) and Master’s degree (MArch) in Architecture from the University of Crete, Greece. She is also a qualified Architect, a BREEAM approved graduate and an active member of CO-URBAN research network. After moving to the UK and gaining a Master’s degree in Sustainable Urban Design with distinction, she pursued a fully funded PhD project. Along with her 3-year research project, she also worked at the University of Nottingham as teaching assistant in postgraduate urban design and architectural courses. She has been involved in several ongoing large-scale urban developments in the UK and internationally, and published a number of research papers. Being extremely passionate about cities and their versatile effects on human wellbeing, her research looks at advanced applications of urban design, sustainable urbanism and place experience. She currently works as an Urban Designer and Architect at CSA Environmental in the United Kingdom.
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Eirini Pavlou is working at the Printing Works Department of the Bank of Greece as an ink specialist. She holds a Bachelor degree in Graphic Arts Technology (Athens TEI – Department of Graphic Arts Technology). She conducted her graduation thesis with the title: “Solution Combustion Synthesis of luminescent pigments for ink applications” at the Advanced Ceramic and Composites Materials Laboratory, National Center of Scientific Research – NCSR Demokritos. She is a postgraduate student at the Hellenic Open University (Master in Graphic Arts and Multimedia). As a graduate, she has worked at NCSR- Demokritos. After her graduation she started to work in Demokritos as a research assistant for three years. In that period, she continued her research on pigments and inks applications. She has presented her research at several scientific conferences- among them two times at the International Symposium on Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis – SHS. Besides all the above, she is passionate in creating jewellery and artifacts.
Perks is an educator, designer, writer and researcher. She leads MA Graphic Design at UCA Epsom, Surrey, UK. Her research interests are based around archives and build on themes from her doctoral thesis on the legacy of the principles of Isotype. Perks’ current research is based on the Henry Dreyfuss Symbol Sourcebook Archive at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
Anastasia Pesmatzoglou was born in Athens. She studied Graphic Arts Technologist at TEI of Athens. She has master’s degree in Graphic Arts & Multimedia from the School of Applied Arts of the Hellenic Open University and is a PhD candidate at the University of West Attica of the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication. She worked in many graphic arts companies as a production manager. She has been in charge of the Collections of the Bank of Greece over the years. Her research focuses on the production of Greek banknotes. She has published articles concerning the coins, banknotes and medals in the magazine “Neos Kyklos” of the Bank of Greece, as well as lectures at scientific conferences.
Sayali Milind Phadke is a designer from Mumbai practicing in various sectors. Having worked as an art director and designer across the advertising, design and product design sectors, the right balance between design ideation and empathy is the crux of her work through the years. Her work explores the potential of innovative design communication and experimental typography to expand the realm of possibilities which design can offer. Having her work exhibited in various spaces including the prestigious British Museum of Natural History in London, she also explores the design challenges of socio-political themes in her personal work. Having received design education from University of Mumbai and University of the Arts, London, Sayali has won multiple prestigious national awards by the Communication Arts Guild of India (CAG) and has received notable acclaim for her contribution in design research and typographic experiments as a speaker at international conferences like Typoday 2018 (Mumbai) and Typoday 2020 (Jordan).
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Penelope is an educator and communication designer, whose inquisitiveness focuses on typography interrelating with architecture, interiors, art and fashion. Additionally, she researches visual identity and communication in urban landscapes, investigating font and colour psychology, encouraging the quality of human life and sustainability in cities. Educated at the University of the Arts, she obtained an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins and a BA (Hons) in Graphic and Media Design from London College of Communication. She worked as a designer in London and Milan for twelve years with a variety of clients in Europe and Asia. Currently she is based in Cyprus as a design consultant for selective projects with artists and local artisans. An advocate of design education and thinking in a world of perplexity and systematic dehumanisation, she is training Gen Z students, often from disadvantaged background, in public Secondary technical and vocational education schools. Simultaneously, she is teaching at the School for the Deaf in Nicosia, hard of hearing and deaf teenagers, endeavouring for equality on educational opportunity by access to art and design tertiary education and careers in the creative industries.
Thomas Phinney is a type designer who has created fonts for Adobe and Google, who also specializes in font/typography forensics. He is the former CEO of FontLab, and previously had strategic/technical product management roles at Adobe and Extensis. Phinney was on the board of ATypI from 2004–2020, mostly as treasurer. He has four patents and a medal, as well as an MS in printing/typography from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Phinney did his 1997 Master’s thesis on “Extreme Form Change in Multiple Master Fonts”, a precursor to variable font technology. His team’s open-source typeface Science Gothic is a 4-axis variable font with over 2000 glyphs commissioned by Google Fonts. He is currently working on a new project for Google, which will be announced prior to ICTVC.
Pericles Pilides was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1963. He studied graphic arts at the Athens Technical Institution (TEI) and painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He starts working in the advertising field in 1985 as Art & Creative Director and Communication Consultant. In 1986 he represents Greece in BIENNALE Young Artists of Europe with a great spectacle with live theatrical activities within a stage presence area of 1.600 m2, on the premises of the Helexpo National Institution for the Organization of Exhibitions.
PILIDES CREATOR S.A. was founded in 1989 in Thessaloniki and PILIDES ATHENS in 2000, in Athens. Pericles is President and CEO of both companies up today.
In 1992 Pericles designs and edits promotional material and application documents for the Claiming of “Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997”. In 1993 he becomes the Communication Consultant and Image Maker of prime minister Kostas Karamanlis and in the year 2000 he plans and monitors the election campaign of New Democracy political party. From 2005 to 2007 he is a Communication Consultant of the European Parliament and MEP Nikos Vakalis. In 2011 he designs and edits the new logo and Corporate Identity of New Democracy political party. In the elections of June 2012, he becomes the Communication Consultant of the President of New Democracy, prime minister Antonis Samaras. In 2013 he becomes the Communication Consultant and Image Maker of Governor of Central Macedonia, Apostolos Tzitzikostas. Furthermore, he designs Tzitzikostas’ election campaigns of 2014 and 2019. In 2018 he writes the script and directs a short feature film for the opening ceremony of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and he organizes and directs the opening ceremony. He has been a Communications Consultant of the Greek Minister of Tourism, of the Greek Minister of National Education and Religious and of the Greek Minister of Defense.
Pavel Pisklakov is a designer, typographer and educator, born, living and working in Chelyabinsk. He is Assistant Professor at the South Ural State University. After receiving a degree in Applied Maths, he was deeply engaged in the study of communication design. Pavel specializes in poster design, identity, and typography. His works were exhibited in more than 35 countries and received several prestigious international awards. He teaches courses in computer graphics, typography, principles of art and design, statistics, and methods of mathematical modeling. He speaks about newspaper, magazine and poster design, history of the poster and communication design for different audiences. Pavel’s students were winners and finalists at various international poster competitions. Design education, integration of math methods and design, exploration of new technologies in media, typography are his fields of research. He has also organized and hosted many design events in Chelyabinsk. Member of ATypI, AIGA and Russia Designers Association.
H Ειρήνη Πίτατζη είναι πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Εφαρμοσμένης Πληροφορικής του Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονίας και φοιτήτρια στο Μεταπτυχιακό Δίπλωμα Ειδίκευσης Γραφικές Τέχνες – Πολυμέσα, στη Σχολή Εφαρμοσμένων Τεχνών του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου. Ζει και εργάζεται στην Κομοτηνή ως εκπαιδευτικός Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης. Ως υπεύθυνη σχολικής ομάδας δραστηριοτήτων υλοποιεί με τους μαθητές οπτικοακουστικές δράσεις και κινηματογραφικές ταινίες, οι οποίες έχουν λάβει πανελλήνια και διεθνή βραβεία.
Dr. Anastasios Politis possesses over 40 years of experience on the strategic analysis and development for the Greek and European Graphic Arts and Media fields (1977- today). He has a Bachelor degree in Graphic Arts Technology from Athens TEI (1977), Master degrees in Education and Multimedia, degree of Licentiate of Technology and a Doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology – KTH Stockholm, Sweden (2004). He is an Associate Professor on Graphic Arts and Media Technology in Athens TEI and Hellenic Open University and elected Vice – Chairman of the Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Media Technology Engineers (HELGRAMED).
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Sanja Mahović Poljaček holds a Master of Science and a Doctorate in Graphic Technology from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the University of Zagreb. She is currently an associate professor in the Department for Printing Materials and Printing Plates at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb. She is a lecturer on the subjects of printing plates and graphic materials in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses. Her research area involves studying of interactions of graphic materials involved in printing processes, with focus on screen printing and flexography. She has published a number of research papers at international conferences and journals and is a reviewer for a number of international journals.
A life-long Kansan, Jeff Pulaski was born and raised in Newton, Kansas in the United States. He is currently the Director of the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries at Wichita State University. His letterpress collection includes various platen and cylinder presses, a Prouty Power Press newspaper press, an 18” Challenge paper cutter, a Model 31 Linotype and large assortment of metal and wooden type.
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Irma Puškarević is a graphic designer and Assistant Professor at Wichita State University, US, with a special interest in language and typography. She received her PhD from the University of Novi Sad, Department of Graphic Engineering and Design. She is a member of the Association of Artists of the Applied Arts and Designers of Vojvodina (SRB) and a mentor at Alphabettes, a collaborative network promoting the work of women in the field. Her research focuses on the expressive qualities of typography in graphic communication; her most recent research explores the phenomenon of multilingualism, i.e. multi-script typography of the South Slavic region.
Nace Pušnik is a university graduate engineer of graphic technology (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering). In 2016 he completed his doctoral studies in the field of information and graphic arts technology. Since 2009 he has been working at the University of Ljubljana; Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering; Department of Textile, Graphics and Design; Chair of Information and Graphic Arts Technology. From 2017 on, he is assistant professor and teaches subjects in the field of graphic design and typography (Integration of Design and Technology, Information Design, Creative Typography, Typeface Design), and researches graphic / typographic elements and user experience. He carries out his research work to a large extent with the help of an eye tracking device. He cooperates interdisciplinary with various faculties and academies within the University of Ljubljana and also with other organizations that are not under the auspices of the University of Ljubljana (domestically and internationally). These cooperations are mainly connected with typography and design related projects.
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Mandar Rane is a Professor of communication design at IDC School of design. He specializes in Graphic design; Information Design, Book Design, Visual Identity and Design of interactive applications. His academic, as well as professional work, can be seen on his personal website.
Panagiota Sakellariou lives and works in Patras. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Piraeus, an MBA from the University of Patras, and an MA in Graphic Design‒Multimedia from the Hellenic Open University. Currently, she is working as project administrator at the Computer Technology Institute and Press, which is supervised by the Ministry of Education, managing EU co-funded projects in the field of exploitation of digital technologies in teaching practice. Panagiota has worked in the banking sector and as an independent evaluator of Erasmus+ proposals in cooperation with the State Scholarship Foundation. Her interests include visual design, photography and fine arts.
Thomaida Salogianni is a Secondary Teacher at EPAL, School of Applied Arts, in Greece, teaching Graphic Arts for more than 20 years. She holds a BSc in Graphic Arts, an MSc degree in Graphic Arts and Interactive Multimedia (Hellenic Open University), she is a PhD Candidate of the University of West Attica and is currently working on her PhD, focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Greek Graphic Arts Industry. For more than 20 years, Thomaida is actively involved in the fields of education, Design and Development Programs and with social reintegration center for addicts.
Since the early years as a BSc student in Applied Sciences in Technology of Graphic arts, I have been studying and practicing in all the different printing methods and working with Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat). Working as a Graphic arts technologist the past 4 years, I acquired great experience in Offset, digital printing, cutting machine operation (Manual and automatic machines – Zünd), prepress, digital processing and montage. In parallel with the university studies and working experience, the past 8 years, my interest for electronic devices have driven me to self-study and research both the software and the hardware of personal computers, gaining great experience and knowledge. Active member of HELGRAMED – the Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Media Technology Engineers.
Η Δρ Βασιλική Σαρακατσιάνου είναι Ιστορικός Τέχνης, πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, κάτοχος μεταπτυχιακού διπλώματος και διδακτορικού τίτλου με υποτροφία του Ιδρύματος Κρατικών Υποτροφιών. Είναι Ε.ΔΙ.Π. στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής και Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής. Έχει διδάξει στο Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο, σε Δημόσια Ι.Ε.Κ. και Κ.Ε.Κ. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε ερευνητικά προγράμματα και επιστημονικές επιτροπές. Έχει δημοσιεύσει το βιβλίο: Η αφαίρεση στη Νεότερη Ελληνική Τέχνη. Έχει δημοσιεύσει μελέτες και άρθρα σε πρακτικά ελληνικών και διεθνών συνεδρίων, επιστημονικά περιοδικά, συλλογικούς τόμους και τον περιοδικό τύπο. Έχει επιμεληθεί εκθέσεις και καταλόγους εκθέσεων. Είναι μέλος της Εταιρίας Ελλήνων Ιστορικών της Τέχνης.
Josipa Selthofer graduated from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Technology and Arts, and obtained a PhD in Information Science from the University of Zadar. She teaches Publishing Studies and Information Technology at graduate level. Since 2020 she has been the President of the Book History, Publishing, and Bookselling Department. She has worked as graphic editor for various publishing houses and as a high school teacher for graphics. She is a member of COST, the Organization Committees of several conferences and a professional member of the HDD Association (Society of Croatian Designers). She is the graphic editor of journals and books published by her university.
Charalampos (Harry) N. Sepentzis was born in Athens. He studied in Greece in Graphic Arts Technologies, Scenography, Decorating and Pedagogy and received his Training in RADA -London, in “Set Design and Scenic Techniques”. Ηe teaches for over 52 years, to over 25.000 Students. He has done 270 Scenographies. He works and lectures in Greece and abroad, doing 2 Retrospective Exhibitions. As a Journalist, he works in Greece and abroad (L.G.R). He writes Books and Foreign Language Dictionaries. The theme of his Thesis at the University of West Attica is: “The Application of Graphic Arts Technologies in Scenography and Theatrical Visual Communication”. He has been distinguished by Greek and foreign operators. His biography has been included in the ‘WHO IS WHO” Biographical Dictionary and Harry Patsi’s one.
Martina Bembić Sergo is a freelance graphic designer located in Labin, Croatia. She obtained her BA from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Technology and Arts. She started her professional carrier at the Croatian daily newspaper Večernji list, part of Styria Media Group. There, working as a member of the newspaper graphics team for ten year, she found her passion for infographics and layout design. As a freelancer designer, her work mainly concentrates on branding projects and visual information design.
Dr Avinash Shende is a PhD and an Associate Professor of Industrial design at IDC School of Design. He is working in the bamboo craft sector for 20 years. His research area is inclined towards basic design courses and reviving bamboo craft products, redefining the processes of making craft community welfare.
Η Νίκη Σιώκη (PhD) ασχολείται με την έρευνα και διδασκαλία της τυπογραφίας και του γραφικού σχεδιασμού στο έντυπο και ψηφιακό περιβάλλον. Είναι αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια στο Τμήμα Σχεδιασμού και Πολυμέσων του Πανεπιστημίου Λευκωσίας (Κύπρος). Τα ερευνητικά της ενδιαφέροντα επικεντρώνονται στην ιστορία της γραφιστικής και της τυπογραφίας στην Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο και στην ιστορία του σχεδιασμού των ελληνικών εντύπων με έμφαση στα βιβλία και τον περιοδικό τύπο. Για είκοσι περίπου χρόνια εργάστηκε στον χώρο των εκδόσεων με ειδίκευση στο επιστημονικό και ακαδημαϊκό βιβλίο. Είναι τακτικό μέλος σε επιστημονικές οργανώσεις, συντακτικές επιτροπές περιοδικών, και επιστημονικές επιτροπές οργάνωσης διεθνών συνεδρίων. Οι πιο πρόσφατες δημοσιεύσεις της περιλαμβάνουν την συν-επιμέλεια του συλλογικού τόμου Design for visual communication (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) και τα ερευνητικά άρθρα ‘The postwar schoolbook as a material artefact. Two Greek reading textbooks from 1944’ (Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2019), και ‘Thinking out of the book: Visual language and textual form in the design of ebooks’ (Advances in Design and Digital Communication, 2021).
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Yannis Skarpelos is Professor of Visual Cultural Studies at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Since 1996 he introduced courses in visual communication, visual semiotics and visual culture, as well as founded the “New Media Lab” (1999), currently renamed to “Cultural Informatics, Data and Computational Cultural Studies Lab”. The last decade his research is focused on computational analysis of big visual data, videogames and social network analysis. He has written the books: Terra Virtualis: The Construction of Cyberspace (1999), Historical Memory and Greekness in Comic Books (2000), Image and Society: From Documentary Photography to Visual Sociology (2012) and The Uncertain Signs (2019). He has also edited the volume Digital Games: Philosophical, social and cultural aspects (2019). He has been Chair of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, and now is Dean of the School of International Studies, Media and Culture.
Yannis Sofias has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of London (1988) and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Athens university of economics (2008). He has research experience in the field of parallel algorithmic design, where he worked towards a master’s of philosophy degree in computer science. He has worked for over 30 years in the graphic arts industry in senior and management positions. He combines deep knowledge of the business environment with exceptional technical skills in areas such as color management (UGRA certified PSO Consultant), production management, workflow development, process reengineering and business development. Currently he works at Heidelberg Hellas as Systems development and support Manager and also he is a PhD candidate at the University of West Attica (Human Capital Development).
Victoria Squire is a Graphic Design & Typography educator and researcher in the School of Art, Design & Architecture at the University of Plymouth, UK. She holds an MA Communication Design degree from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, London. Her research explores graphic design in relation to sustainable development goals, particularly health and community, where she is interested in proposing and communicating future alternatives to visual communication design, moving away from a commercial role, into the relationship between design, health, and social change. Victoria has exhibited her research as practice in the UK, United States, Denmark and more recently through the United Designs Alliance ‘Messages to Humanity’ poster exhibition, South Korea. Victoria is a co-founder and co-managing editor of the international peer-reviewed academic Graphic Communication Design Research journal, Message. Alongside this, Victoria is a co-chief editor of the international Design Behaviors research journal, United Designs Alliance.
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Alexis Stefanis (MSc, PhD) is an Assistant Professor of architectural conservation at the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art of the University of West Attica. He has worked at the Greek Ministry of Culture as a Head conservator and has produced a significant number of studies on the restoration of the building and decorative elements of historic buildings. He has been involved in several projects concerning the conservation, restoration and rehabilitation of architectural heritage such as the restoration of historic buildings of the Medieval city of Rhodes, the restoration of the archaeological site of Aktoriri, the study for the architectural remains of the Neolithic settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria, and the study and risk assessment of Minoan sites in Crete. He is an expert member in the European Committee for Standardisation. He has published the results of his research at international conferences and journals.
Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια ΠΑ.Δ.Α., Σχολή Εφαρμοσμένων Τεχνών και Πολιτισμού, Τμήμα Γραφιστικής και Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας. Γραφίστας Τ.Ε.Ι.-Α. (1980), Αρχιτέκτονας Μηχανικός Ε.Μ.Π. (1986), Διεπιστημονικό, διατμηματικό μεταπτυχιακό δίπλωμα: “Σχεδιασμός-Χώρος-Πολιτισμός” (1999), Διδάκτορας Ε.Μ.Π. (2009). Διακρίσεις: ΥΠ.Ε.Π.Θ. και Ι.Κ.Υ. Διδακτική, Επιστημονική, Επαγγελματική εμπειρία: Γραφιστική, Φωτογραφία, Οπτική Επικοινωνία, Εταιρική Ταυτότητα, Σχεδιασμός (Λογοτεχνικού) Βιβλίου, Γραφιστικές Εκφράσεις σε Περιβάλλοντα (1982-σήμερα). Ερευνητικό έργο: Βιομηχανικός Σχεδιασμός αντικειμένου-κατασκευή πρωτότυπου δείγματος. Γνωστική περιοχή ΘΕΩΡΙΑΣ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΥ. Εκθέσεις, Εισηγήσεις σε Συνέδρια, Δημοσιεύσεις άρθρων.
Evangelos Syrigos is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication, Media & Culture of Panteion University. He holds the postgraduate degrees: ‘Information and Communication Technologies in Education’ and ‘Graphic Arts – Multimedia’. He is laboratory teaching staff at the Department of Graphic Design & Visual Communication (Section Technology of Graphic Arts), University of West Attica. His interests cover the fields of typographic design, editorial design, new media design and education. As a freelancer he has been designer and consultant for international festivals, publishers and magazines.
He has served as a Vocational Training & Apprenticeship Consultant at the Institute of Educational Policy. He has 25 years of teaching experience in all levels of formal education and non-formal adult education, in subjects of the fields of Visual Communication/Graphic Design and Graphic Arts.
Keith Tam is a communication designer, researcher and educator. He is currently Head of Department of Communication Design and Director of the Centre of Communication Design at the Hong Kong Design Institute. He is also Distinguished Research Fellow at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. He has previously taught at the University of Reading (UK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Emily Carr University of Art & Design (Canada). Keith’s research and pedagogy focus on the typography and information design, with particular interest in cross-cultural communication.
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stamatina Theohari holds a B.S. and a PhD in Chemistry (NKUA, Greece). She works at Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication/ Sector of Graphic Arts Technology, Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture at the University of West Attica. She is Academic Departmental Coordinator for Erasmus+ programs. Director of the Master’s programm “Intelligent Packaging. New Technologies and Marketing”. She gives lectures in master’s programms of the University of West Attica and the University of Ioannina, Greece. Joined national/ International research projects in the field of applications of pigments, dyes, printing inks & coatings, as well as surface treatment of materials for printing, corrosion protection and special applications. She currently teaches courses about Chemistry – Materials Technology (Printing Inks, Coatings) and Research Methodology. Author of scientific papers and publications in national/International scientific journals. Member of scientific committees of Conferences, reviewer of research projects and articles in International scientific journals.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Sc. Tamara Tomašegović holds a PhD in Graphic technology. She works at Department for Graphic Materials and Printing Plates at University of Zagreb Faculty of Graphic Arts. Her area of research involves graphic materials and printing plates for commercial printing techniques, with focus on flexography. Her scientific interests extend to the surface phenomena and interfacial interactions, polymeric materials and nanocomposite coatings. She has published a number of papers and participated in conferences focused on graphic technology and related topics. During her PhD study, she has spent three months at Swansea University, Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating for scientific training. She currently teaches courses related to printing plates at her home university.
George Triantafyllakos holds a PhD in Participatory Design of Educational Software from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his BSc from the same department. From 2011 to 2015 he was a tutor of Interaction Design and Web Programming in Applied Arts Studies College in Thessaloniki, Greece, a franchise partner college to Central Lancashire University, UK. In September 2015 he started the Atypical type foundry. He has designed typefaces for the Greek Font Society. In 2017 he participated in the team of designers that won the competition for the design of the new visual identity of the National Library of Greece (George D. Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Papazoglou, George Triantafyllakos and Axel Peemöller). The same year he was a member of the jury committee of the Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards (ΕΒΓΕ 2017). In October 2019 he was awarded at the 11th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition for the design of the Dolce Noir type family. His research interests include Participatory Design and Human Computer Interaction. His freelancing work ranges from front-end web design/development and back-end development to graphic/type design.
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Christos Trochoutsos has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Piraeus (2008) and master’s degree in Graphic arts and Multimedia from Hellenic Open University (2013). In 2012, he participated in Bern. Erasmus – MediaPro Intensive Programme: Innovative Technologies in Media Production, Future Developments and Τrends, (20 Aug.-1 Sept., Burgdorf). In 2018, he participated in Print Promotion International Specialist Teachers training course in the fields of Pre-Press, Press and Post-Press in Advanced Graphic Arts (7 June-3 July, Training Center for GA in Chemnitz, Germany). At the moment he is a PhD Candidate at the Hellenic Open University (research on digital printing). He has worked for 10 years as a prepress manager in the printing industry and for 11 years as an IT Director.
Kaman Tsang is currently Lecturer at Department of Communication Design and Curator of the Hong Kong Graphic Archive, Centre for Communication Design, Hong Kong Design Institute. Her PhD research investigated the dynamic progress in the formation of creative community and the vibrancy of cultural and creative clusters. She has engaged in numerous research projects on cultural and creative clusters, creative industries, design history and user-oriented design research.
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Prof. Marios Tsigonias holds an MSc in Polymer Chemistry, an MEd in Pedagogical Studies and an MCounc in Academic and Career Counseling. His PhD thesis is on Holistic Packaging Development and Development of Materials and Technologies for the Environmental needs of the Printing and Packaging Industry. From 2003 to 2008 he worked as a researcher for the “Membranes and Materials for Environmental Separations Laboratory (MESL)” – NCSR Demokritos on complex, environmentally friendly, polymer packaging materials. In September 2020 he was elected Assistant Professor in the area of Printing Technology (University of West Attika). He is an academic collaborator of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) teaching in the MA Graphic Arts–Multimedia and an advisor for masters’ theses in the same programme. Moreover, he is a scientific collaborator of the Museum of Typography and Graphic Arts Technology (University of Ioannina). His main scientific interests include Holistic Packaging Development, Development and characterization of degradable packaging materials, new Materials and Technologies for Graphic Arts and Packaging Applications. Prof. Tsigonias is a founding Member and President of the Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Media Technology Engineers (HELGRAMED) and also a founding Member & Chairman of the Board of the Graphic Arts Research, Development and Engineering Institute.
Antonios Tsigonias was born in 1980 in Athens where he lives and works until today. He has studied at the Department of Graphic Arts Technology of the TEI of Athens and has a Master’s Degree in Graphic Arts – Multimedia from the Hellenic Open University. He is a PhD candidate in Graphic Arts at UNIWA focusing on the Artwork reproduction by the Silkscreen printing. He worked in the Factory of Kallioras Silkscreen SA in the period 2004 – 2005 as an assistant silk screen printing technician and from 2005 to 2016 he firstly worked as a Printing Technician and later as a Production Manager in the company Al. Dousias – Graphic Arts. He is a founding member of the social cooperative Graphic Arts Company G.A.R.D.EN. Solutions where he works as a Production Manager. From 2011 until today he is a laboratory associate of the Department of Graphic Arts Technology of the TEI of Athens, teaching the courses of Screen Printing and Large Format Printing applications, packaging and smart Packaging application. He has participated in photography and Screen Printing exhibitions, has attended a large number of Graphic Arts workshops and has participated in international conferences with publications related to Graphic Arts, printing, marking methods and screen printing.
Dilek Nur Polat Ünsür received her BA degree from Hacettepe University, Department of Graphic Design in 2011, and her MA degree in Book Design from the University of Reading, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication in 2013. She continued her doctoral studies on the history of graphic design in the same department and earned the title of Doctor in 2018 with her thesis, ‘A typographic analysis of newspapers and magazines in the Turkish Alphabet Reform (1928-1929)’. She is currently an assistant professor at Necmettin Erbakan University, Department of Graphics. She researches and teaches in the fields of typography, publication design and graphic design history.
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Η Κυριακή Βαρβαλούκα είναι απόφοιτος της σχολής Εικαστικών Τεχνών και Επιστημών της Τέχνης του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων με ειδίκευση τη γλυπτική. Η θεματική της περιστρέφεται γύρω από τους μύθους και τις συμβολικές μορφές τους. Παρακολουθεί τα Πρoγράμματα Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών: α) «Ψηφιακές Μορφές της Τέχνης» στην Ανώτατη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών Αθήνας και β) «Ευφυής Συσκευασία: Νέες Τεχνολογίες και Marketing» στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής και Οπτικής Επικοινωνίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής. Έχει διδάξει εικαστικές τέχνες στη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση και έχει συμμετάσχει σε ομαδικές εκθέσεις, ημερίδες και φεστιβάλ τέχνης.
Walda Verbaenen after completing an MA in Graphic Design from the international MA program ‘Reading Type & Typography’, continued as a PhD researcher at READSEARCH, the legibility research group at the PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University in Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ann Bessemans. Her main research interest is on readability and legibility and the supporting role graphic (type)designers can offer constitutes an important focus in her work. Walda is intrigued by typographic details in historical material. She is a member of the Data Science Institute at the Hasselt university, and a board member at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp.
Irene Vlachou is a typeface designer based in Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. Irene has collaborated with international type foundries and corporations, working as a typeface designer and a consultant for Greek typefaces. From 2013 to 2019, she was a senior designer and variable font expert at Type-Together. She currently works full time as a freelancer typeface designer specialising in OEM/System fonts. On behalf of the Greek Open Source Community (GFOSS), she is a mentor on the expansion of Greek libre fonts for the GSOC (Google Summer of Code) program. For the spring semester of 2022, Irene is an artist-in-residency at La Becque and a visiting professor at the Master program of Typeface design at ECAL, Lausanne.
Her work includes: Colvert Greek (2012, typographies.fr), Parmigiano Greek (2014, Typotheque), SamsungOne Greek (2016, Brody Associates), LL Bradford Greek (2016, identity for Documenta14, Laurenz Brunner), LL Unica77 Greek (2017, Lineto), Stratos Greek (2018, Production Type), FauxFoundry and FauxGreek parametric font (2019), SauberScript Greek (2020, Typejockeys), Amstelvar, (2020, FontBureau) and redesign of Roboto and Noto Greek fonts (2021, Google Fonts).
Gerasimos Vonitsanos is a Researcher Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras (CEID). He works as an adjunct professor at the Hellenic Open University in the School of Graphic Arts and participates in various research projects. He received his Master of Science Degree from the Department of Informatics at Ionian University. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a diploma in Open and Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University. His research interests span the broad areas of Educational Technologies, Graphic Arts, and Distance Learning. He has published several papers in refereed scientific conferences and journals and served as program committee in various conferences. Peer-reviewer of scientific papers, books and publications of other researchers, to be published/presented at journals and conferences.
Karel van der Waarde studied graphic design in the Netherlands (The Design Academy, Eindhoven), and the UK (De Montfort University, Leicester and Reading University).
He started in 1995 a design – research consultancy in Belgium specializing in the testing of pharmaceutical information design. The company develops and tests patient information leaflets, instructions, forms, and protocols in both digital and analogue formats. (www.graphicdesign-research.com)
Karel van der Waarde publishes and lectures about visual information. Currently, he teaches (part time) in Switzerland at the Basel School of Design (FHNW) and the Hochschule Lucerne (HSLU).
He is a life-fellow of the Communications Research Institute (CRI, Melbourne, Australia), a board member of International Institute for Information Design (IIID, Vienna, Austria) and editorial board member of Information Design Journal, Hyphen, She Ji, and Visible Language.
Rosalie Wagner is a French type designer and font engineer who has been working mainly as a contractor for Google Fonts since 2020. After graduating in typography, she attended the ANRT (post-master program in typography) in France, where she focused her research on fonts for children’s literacy. She worked as a trainee for almost a year at Alphabet Type (a font engineering services company in Germany), before starting to work as a freelancer in Berlin. She has since been regularly collaborating with foundries such as 205TF (France), Fontwerk (Germany), Fatype (Switzerland) and NaN (Germany), as well as with various individual type designers.
Liuchuan is a PhD candidate at the University of Brighton, UK. She researches the use of visual communication to inform and explain complex social issues influenced by restrictive government policies. For example, she’s looking at using visual communication to help Chinese young couples to make informed fertility decisions after the changes in China’s Birth Policy. Liuchuan is a graphic design practitioner and she is also teaching part time.
Bhairavi Warke is a Ph.D. Student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, working under Dr. Diane Gromala. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on Designing Interactive self-care technologies for Women experiencing Perimenopause and Menopause to help with adaptation to lifestyle changes, possible early detection or prevention of chronic conditions, and promote overall well-being. She is a member of University of British Columbia’s Women’s Health Research Cluster (WHRC) and of the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) at BC Women’s. Bhairavi holds a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation & Control Engineering from Pune University, India and a master’s degree in Industrial Design from Arizona State University, USA. Bhairavi has prior experience in developing healthcare products and services at companies in USA and India. At SFU, she works as a design researcher on collaborative projects with the industry and as a teaching assistant for undergraduate design courses.
Rachel Warner is Lecturer at the Typography & Graphic Communication department, University of Reading. She has worked as a design practitioner and studied for a Doctorate in Typography & Graphic Communication. Her doctoral research focuses on design for decision making with the aim of understanding how design and design practice contribute to the effective provision of information to the public. She is particularly interested in understanding how designers work within constraints and influences on their practice, and how real-world design practice and design pedagogy can combine.
Lisa Winstanley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. For the past decade she worked internationally as a design educator and researcher, however her academic career is also underpinned by over 20 years of commercial experience. Her current research reviews the intersections between ethical and collaborative design practices and pedagogies, though the lens of design for change. She is interested in investigating multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations which allow designers to work together with society, to produce life-centric design solutions for society. Her research reviews what tools can help facilitate such collaborations and what systems need to be in place for effective and meaningful collaboration to transpire. In short, Lisa’s work investigates how we can leverage design collaboratively and ethically for the benefit of our society.
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Dr Artemis Yagou is an Athens-born historian of design and technology. Currently, she is Research Associate at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum (Munich). Her main research interests are design history, the cultural history of technology, museums, horology, construction toys, and Greek material culture (18th-21st c.). She has published widely, including the book Fragile Innovation: Episodes in Greek Design History (2011) and the edited volume Technology, Novelty, and Luxury (forthcoming, 2022).
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Dr Yeoh is Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Graphic Design Coordinator at Indiana University Southeast. Dr Yeoh takes on projects both inside and outside of the classroom which not only benefits his students but works across program and department lines. He serves as one of the council members for Diversity and Inclusivity at IU Southeast. Dr Yeoh has served as one of the conference judges for poster presentations since the 12th Annual Undergraduate Student Conference at IU Southeast in April 2016. In May 2021, he was awarded the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Conference Hosting grant for the EDDE 2021 Design Education Conference in the amount of $12,251. In addition to publishing in design-related journals, he has actively participated in several international exhibitions in Australia, China, England, Russia, Samoa, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, and the USA.
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Dr Evripides Zantides is Professor in Graphic and Visual Communication in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where he gained a PhD in Visual Communication, as well as at University of Kent, UK (MA in Graphic Fine Arts-distinction award with full scholarship), at University of Wolverhampton, UK (BA Graphic Communication) and at Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus (HND Electrical Engineering). He started his academic career in the Department of Design and Multimedia at Intercollege, Cyprus (1997–2007) which then gained University status (2007) and continued working as coordinator of the Graphic Communication Program (2004–2009) at University of Nicosia. He joined Cyprus University of Technology in 2009, where he acted as Chairperson of the Department (2014–2017), coordinator of the BA Graphic Arts Program (2009–2013, 2019–now) as well as the MA in Graphic Communication (2012–2013) and board member of the University Council (2020–now). Evripides Zantides is also involved as a reviewer in scientific journals, in educational, conference and art and design evaluation committees. Moreover, he is the delegate for Cyprus in the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), as well as in the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS). In addition, he is a member of the Hellenic Semiotic Society (HSS), the International Association for Visual Semiotics (AISV) and founder member of the Cyprus Association of Graphic Designers and Illustrators (CAGDI). He has served as Chairperson in Program evaluation committees of the Council for Educational Evaluation and Accreditation (CEEA) and he is a member in committees of the Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KYSATS). His research interests are based on semiotics in the process of fine or applied audio/visualisation of verbal language, using image, text/typography and sound. He is the founder and director at the Semiotics and Visual Communication Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology.
Alexios Zavras has almost 40 years experience in Free and Open Source software. He is an evangelist of all things Open and is a regular speaker on software and content licensing in international conferences. He holds a PhD in Computer Science after having studied in Greece and the USA. Alexios is currently living and working in Munich and on the Internet.
Cătălina Zlotea has a background in graphic design, journalism, and visual communication. She worked for over ten years on international cultural projects in the UK, the Middle East, Romania, and Indonesia. She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Reading that investigates the way in which historical and social contexts are reflected by the output of visual artefacts in the twentieth century in Britain. Her research draws from a range of disciplines including the history of art/design/printing, cultural studies, visual semiotics, and sociology.
Kenneth Zupan has been employed as a full-time lecturer at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) since 2007, where he has taught exclusively in the design concentration. His course repertoire includes teaching both lecture and practice-based studios in the subjects of industrial design, graphic design, drawing, and spatial thinking, as well as a senior capstone course. In addition to his teaching duties, Kenneth serves on the university’s Infrastructure Committee and was the primary faculty member responsible for SolidSpace, the school’s physical prototyping space. Outside of committee and teaching duties, he actively engages in events to promote the department and explore his interests in 3D printing (additive manufacturing) , including the SIAT’s annual Open House, Maker Faire and various other exhibitions.
ICTVC 8 · Thessaloniki, Greece · 5 — 9 July 2022
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