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Arts & Communication Contemporary Greek typeface design

Educational Institute of Athens and a master of arts is exhibited in prestigious institutions in Greece, and some
from the University of Kent, UK. He cofounded fonts. are housed in the National Library of Paris and private
gr in 1995 to advance Greek typography. He consults for collections globally.
global type foundries and has created Greek extensions George D. Matthiopoulos (https://www.linkedin.
for Commercial Type Foundry since 2008. His work spans com/in/georgios-d-matthiopoulos-262285b7/) has been
original fonts and electronic publications for various teaching at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual
museums and organizations, including collaborations Communication at the University of West Attica since
such as the Stella Project (https://stellaproject.gr/). He 1990. He is involved in researching and designing Greek
taught typography at the School of Graphic Design at West fonts, typography history, and graphic design. He is
Attica University and served as an art director for ITYE also a founding member and type designer of the Greek
Diofantos. Since 2014, he has been a creative director at the Font Society (https://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr/). In
Bureau International des Expositions, and in 2020, he was addition, he has overseen the artistic editing of various
part of the design team for Repositioning Greece, overseen publications, exhibition catalogs, museum collections,
by Steve Vranakis, where he contributed to the creation of and conferences. Matthiopoulos has authored educational
the country’s new official fonts. textbooks and translated works on printing by Robert
Yannis Karlopoulos (https://associates.work/) pursued Bringhurst, Victor Scholderer, Tim Wu, and John Berger.
graphic design studies at the Technological Educational He has also presented papers at numerous international
Institute of Athens and furthered his education in conferences and published books, articles, and studies in
electronic page layout, design, and font digitization as a visual communication journals. He has received many
postgraduate scholar at École Estienne and Imprimerie visual communication awards, and since 2017, he has been
Nationale in Paris. He cofounded several ventures, a scientific collaborator and designer in the preparation
including the photographic agency fosphotos.com, team of the Museum of Printing and Graphic Arts
the online magazine popaganda.gr, and the Fotagogos Technology at the University of Ioannina.
bookstore and publishing house. He has played a pivotal Natalia Qadreh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/
role in the Greek Digital Type Library (fonts.gr). Active nataliaqadreh/) has been serving as a font developer at
in various boards, Karlopoulos has engaged in numerous Dalton Maag, a typeface design studio in London, since
design projects, including the rebranding of Greece’s 2017. She has a background in graphic and communication
image and visual identity. He has collaborated with design and holds a master’s degree in typeface design from
prominent organizations and has been recognized for his the University of Reading. Her focus includes custom
design contributions. In addition, he collaborates with the projects involving multiscript typefaces, covering Latin,
Thessaloniki Film Festival, serves as an image and design Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic designs. In addition to design,
consultant for LiFO/lifo.gr, and is a creative director at the she is involved in all aspects of font development, including
Karlopoulos&Associates creative agency in Athens. hinting and engineering.
Takis Katsoulidis (http://katsoulidistakis.gr/), born in Siskakis Konstantinos (https://www.grafist.eu/), type
Messini, studied engraving at the Athens School of Fine designer and founder of Anagrafi type foundry (https://
Arts from 1952 to 1958. He continued his studies at the www.anagrafi.com/), has designed a collection of Byzantine
Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1962 to 1966, with a and historical fonts, uniquely resembling those from old,
scholarship from the Greek government. He served as yellowed book pages. This project pays tribute to the
the director of Doxiadis Applied Arts School from 1971 unmatched art found in ancient manuscripts, celebrating
to 1976 and became a professor of graphic design at the the work of prominent scribes and typographers from the
School of Graphic Arts in the Technological Educational past.
Institution of Athens in 1978. He designed postage stamps Emilios Theofanous (https://www.monotype.com/
for Cyprus and Greece, tapestries for banks in Canada studio/emilios-theofanous), hailing from Cyprus, holds the
and the United States, and silk-screen paintings for the position of Monotype’s creative type director in London.
National Bank of Greece in Chicago. From 1986 to 1988, he He has a particular appreciation for high-quality Greek
worked as the artistic advisor of the graphic arts company and multilingual typography. Since joining Monotype,
Aspioti-ELKA Co. Katsoulidis is a founding member of Emilios has been involved in numerous custom typeface
the Greek Font Society and has created numerous modern projects spanning various industries such as fashion,
Greek typefaces, including “Apollonia” and “Katsoulidis,” banking, retail, and automotive sectors. In addition,
tailored for photocomposition. He has also published six he has contributed to some notable releases from the
art albums featuring woodcuts and lithographs. His work Monotype Library, including Helvetica Now Variable. His

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