/ Physics & Robotics Educator / /Educational Designer / Poster Designer / General Coordinator of the NGO “Graphic Stories”

Miltiades Karras studied in the Department of Physics at the School of Sciences of the University of Athens. Since 1999, he has been working as a Physics and Robotics teacher in secondary education.

He is the Co-Founder and General Coordinator of “Graphic Stories Cyprus,” the annual conference on Graphic Design and Visual Communication in Cyprus. Miltiades is responsible for the educational planning, research, and implementation of the Conference, and curates the themes and execution of the poster exhibitions of Graphic Stories.

He works as a coordinator and participant in European educational programs, such as Erasmus+, and has collaborated with Microsoft as a Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

Miltiades is the Head of the Technical – Scientific Committee of the Cyprus Computer Society, responsible for the society’s robotics competitions.

From 2019 to the present, he has distinguished himself with the robotics team he coordinates and trains at the secondary school where he works, achieving top positions in the Robotex robotics competitions in Cyprus. In 2023, his team won 1st and 2nd place in the international Robotex International competition in Tallinn, Estonia.

His passion for photography and applied arts led him to engage with Visual Communication and the corresponding community of designers. In 2004, along with a group of distinguished designers, he founded the Greek Community for Visual Communication Designers, VCDC – “Visual Communication Designers’ Club” (www.vcdc.gr).

In 2004, he was awarded for his participation in the international poster design competition “10 Images for Ithaca.” In 2017, he participated in the poster art exhibition titled “Travellink” in Nicosia, with works from creators from Cyprus and abroad.

From 2015 to 2017, he participated in the European Erasmus+ program titled “Comics in Teaching Languages.” For the program, he initially designed the poster and logo of the Cypriot team and subsequently created comics aimed at teaching foreign languages.

In 2019, he participated in the international poster exhibition titled “Writing, the Origins of Civilization,” hosted by Kosygin University in Moscow, Russia.

In 2022, he participated in the international poster exhibition titled “Tolerance” as part of the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) in Thessaloniki, and the corresponding exhibition in Barcelona, invited by the official association of Catalan designers, Col·legi Oficial de Disseny Gràfic de Catalunya.

In September 2023, he represented Cyprus at the Eastern European Design Festival held in Warsaw, Poland, as the co-founder of Graphic Stories, to showcase the creativity and visual communication of Cyprus on the international stage.

In September 2024 he represented Cyprus and Greece at the World Industrial Design Conference WIDC2024, held in Yantai, China, sharing his vision on “Reimagining Education Through Robotics, AI, and Design”

His photographs and works have been published from time to time in print and online, in magazines and daily press.

Sample work: www.behance.net/miltoskarras