Visual Communication Designer / Educator / Poster Designer / Author / Founder & Creative Director of the NGO “Graphic Stories” / Co-founding Member of WIDA

Aggeliki Athanasiadi is a visual communication designer with an MA(Hons) in Branding from Middlesex University of London, graduating with distinction (grade 9.21).

With a strong background in print and digital communication and advertising, she has worked as a freelancer with advertising agencies and major printing houses in Athens. She has also served as Assistant Art Director at Attica Publications, for PC Magazine, and has collaborated with major pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, Pharmanel, Menarini, and UCB.

Aggeliki works as an academic at the American University of Cyprus, where she teaches graphic design and marketing. She is certified as a “Vocational Training Instructor” by the Cyprus Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA). She is also a certified Therapeutical Art Life Coach and collaborates with the Municipality of Strovolos, in the Open School program, offering training in Graphic Design and Art Empowerment. She worked with the Cyprus Youth Board for four years as a Graphic Design trainer for children and young people in the “The STEAMers” program.

She is one of the Co-founding Members of the World Industrial Design Association (WIDA), a member of GDIO (Global Design Industry Organisation), a member of the C-IDEA International Trainers Association, a founding member of VCDC GR, and a former board member of the Cyprus Creative Club, representing the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) in Cyprus. She has served as a jury member for the ADCE and other international competitions in America, Asia, and Europe. She is also a collaborator with the “Worldwide Graphic Designers” and “Like for Poster” teams.

She has participated in international poster exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, the USA, the UAE, China, Korea, Indonesia, Ecuador, Serbia, Mexico, and Spain, with over 140 of her works showcased, and has been awarded 5 times at the Cyprus Design & Advertising Awards “Pygmalion Awards”, receiving both gold and silver distinctions.

Aggeliki is the founder and Creative Director of the annual Graphic Stories International Conference & Festival of Visual Communication, which aims to share knowledge and provide specialized technical education while exploring contemporary trends in visual communication. She is the creator and co-organizer of the Design Forum “10 min Design Talks” and has organized the Behance Portfolio Reviews twice in Cyprus. Her book, “Graphic Stories – Graphistories”, is her first written work, featuring 62 theoretical articles and 28 interviews with significant creators. The book is approved by the Ministry of Education of Cyprus and has won a gold design award at the Cyprus Design & Advertising Awards, Pygmalion Awards.

In March 2022, she was invited by the Greek Embassy in China to represent Greece with two of her works at the EUNIC (EU National Institutes for Culture) exhibition, which was held as part of the “Together for Peace” event at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. The exhibition featured 21 posters from 14 EU embassies and cultural institutes in solidarity with Ukraine.

That same year, she participated as a speaker at the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) in Greece and at the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Action conference in Cyprus. In September 2023, she was invited by the Polish Designers Association to represent Cyprus at the Festival of Eastern European Design (FEED), held in Warsaw, Poland, as the founder of Graphic Stories, highlighting the creativity and visual communication of Cyprus on the international stage.

In 2022, she participated virtually in the World Industrial Design Conference (WIDC) in China, discussing the 4th industrial revolution. In 2024, she was invited to attend in person as a speaker at the conference on “Designing the Future: From Social Responsibility to Artificial Intelligence”, focusing on the role of visual communication in the transition from social responsibility to the integration of artificial intelligence in design. Additionally, she received an invitation from the Daarvak Literature Department in Germany to join as a member of the Graphic Design team, in recognition of her contribution to the field of visual communication.

As the coach of the Save & Share team, which promotes environmental awareness through social design as part of the European Solidarity Corps Program, Aggeliki, through Graphic Stories NGO, and her team won the Bronze Award at the Cyprus Responsible Business Awards 2023, in the category “NGO of the Year for the Environment”.

Portfolio: www.behance.net/makadcy
GSC: www.graphicstoriescyprus.com
Blog: http://makadcy.blogspot.com
Book: https://graphicstoriescyprus.com/the-book/
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ybzjrcgh
Contact: aggeliki.mk@gmail.com