Serving the design community, as a juror, organiser, and practitioner.

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Awards

I have never been comfortable leading with trophies. Not because I am indifferent to recognition - I am not - but because the kind of work that earns awards is rarely the kind of work you do while thinking about awards. The projects I am most proud of were the ones where the problem was genuinely hard, the client was genuinely demanding, and the team around me was genuinely invested. When those conditions align, something good usually happens. Sometimes someone notices.

My award-winning work spans nearly a decade of agency practice, from the early 2000s, when digital advertising in Greece was still finding its shape, through to the mid-2010s, when the industry had matured enough to demand real craft alongside technical execution. Every one of these recognitions came through the Ermis Awards, the most significant creative industry awards in Greece, and each one marks a moment in a project where the team made the harder, better choice.

Ermis Awards | Selected Recognition

Ermis Gold Ashley & Holmes site · Ashley & Holmes Worldgroup SA · 2002
Ermis Silver Bacardi Breezer "Glossolatin" site · Ashley & Holmes Worldgroup SA · 2004
Ermis Silver National Tourism Campaign Abroad · Ashley & Holmes Worldgroup SA · 2005
Ermis Silver Tellas - No Limit Campaign · Ermis Media Awards · Ashley & Holmes Worldgroup SA · 2005
Ermis Bronze Wind Retail Christmas Campaign · re|direct · 2010

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Jury roles

Beyond teaching and workshops, I actively contribute to the broader design community, evaluating work, shaping conversations, and helping define what excellent digital design looks like toda

Awwwards | Honored Jury Member, 2026.
Awwwards is one of the most respected platforms for recognising and promoting the best in web design and digital creativity worldwide. As an Honored Jury Member, I evaluate submissions across design, creativity, usability, and content, contributing to a global conversation about what makes digital experiences exceptional for the past 9 years.

AIVA | Jury Member AIVA (the American Institute of Visual Arts)
jury evaluates work across visual communication and digital design, bringing together practitioners and educators from across the field.

Indigo Design Award | Jury Member
The Indigo Design Award recognises outstanding work in digital design, UX, and visual communication. Serving as a juror places me among a peer group of designers and educators shaping the discipline's standards.

Bringing design thinking into rooms where it did not yet exist.

Some of the most meaningful facilitation work happens outside the obvious design spaces, in tech events, women's empowerment programmes, and communities just beginning to discover what design can do for them.

Microsoft Hellas | Hour of Code, Workshop Instructor
At the closing event of Microsoft Hellas's Hour of Code initiative, I was invited to lead a workshop for participants on the role of design in programming and development, pitched deliberately at an entry level, for an audience discovering the relationship between code and craft for the first time.

The session introduced digital product design methodology to more than 70 enthusiastic participants. The hands-on exercise that followed was built around Airbnb's real product design case study from 2008, one of the most instructive early examples of how design thinking transformed a digital product from a functional tool into a genuinely human experience. Using a real case study rather than a hypothetical exercise was a deliberate choice: it grounded the methodology in something that actually happened, with consequences that participants could trace forward to the product they use today.

It was one of the most energising facilitation experiences I have had, precisely because the room was full of people who had not yet decided whether design was relevant to them. By the end, most of them thought it was.

Designathon | Organising Team Member
Designathon is a design-focused event bringing together students, practitioners, and industry voices. I contribute as part of the core organising team, helping shape the programme and create meaningful experiences for participants.

Digitized Digital Design Conference | Workshop Lead
At the Digitized conference, one of the significant digital design events in Greece, I led the Digital Product Design Workshop alongside fellow practitioners, bringing hands-on learning into a conference context.

Women On Top | Workshop Lead
Women On Top is a platform dedicated to supporting and empowering women in professional and entrepreneurial life. Since January 2018, I have been leading the entry-level workshop on Website Principles, an introduction to how websites work, what makes them effective, and how non-designers and early-stage entrepreneurs can think more clearly about their digital presence.

Industry experience
My recognition within the field is grounded in more than fifteen years of professional practice, working as Head of Design Services, Design Thinking Lead, and Creative Director for advertising and digital agencies serving brands including Unilever, Wind, Nestlé, OPAP, and Cosmote, as well as a range of startups and emerging businesses.

Organising & facilitation

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