Athanasios Paparis

Athanasios Paparis was born in Athens and raised in Kavala Greece. He studied architecture at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He finished his master’s degree in 2019. He worked as a RIBA Part II Architect in Collective Architecture and Antipas Jones Architects in Dublin. He now works for Etsi Architects in Mani, Greece.

He has a deep interest in philosophy, history, the arts, psychology, folklore, and the natural environment. Part of his interests revolves around a variety of themes from sustainability and autonomy, the vernacular, ideas of identity and environmentalism to classical and rational architectural composition and theory.

Since his teenage graffiti years, he is drawn to visual experimentation and more radical/alternative ways of representing architecture involving graphic design, typography, video, mixed media, and collage.

Flaw Project

Flaw Project is a small women-owned business run by two sisters, Stella and Eleftheria Iosifidou. The two sisters create a variety of clay decorative items combining vintage with contemporary art. Eleftheria is the one who makes all the clay work while Stella is behind all of the acrylic painting and freehand designs. Each item is handmade and hand decorated and has its own little “flaws”. Flaw Project values flaws and turns them into works of art since Stella and Eleftheria believe that it is these flaws and imperfections that make their items beautiful and, most importantly, unique.

Stella was born in Drama and studied Philosophy and Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She took painting lessons at a young age and experimented with various media, styles and techniques. However, she found true inspiration in iconography and oil painting. She has been painting professionally for over 15 years, undertaking regular commissions.

Eleftheria was born in Drama. She studied English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and she holds a master’s degree in Education in EFL Teachers’ Training. She has always shown a keen interest in handicraft artefacts and has dabbled in knitting, craft projects with modeling clay and jewelry making. The joy and satisfaction she derived from playing with clay impelled her to take pottery classes.

Elena Tsaprouni

Elena was born in November 1987 in Kavala. She left for Athens to study Occupational Therapy, where she stayed for years and then she worked in Thessaloniki. Returning to Kavala, she founded “Playwork”, working in the field of Occupational Therapy for children. She always painted, without ever receiving guidance and training. She is inspired by human everyday situations and personal feelings, which she tries to capture with immediacy and color. Usually she sees or imagines something, she thinks of it as a photograph and she depicts it.

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Pi6

Pi6 is a Doha based communication design agency, founded in 2004 by Rena Chrysikopoulou and Michael David Ochs, two ardent design visionaries. Coming from a multicultural background, our team is fully perceptive of the cultural differences in communication and the sociocultural responsibility of design. We work collaboratively with experts in Greece and Germany developing useful, compelling and engaging experiences across all design disciplines, helping our clients reach different segment markets both in Greece and abroad. Our services range from traditional graphic design disciplines such as editorial design, book design, poster design, corporate design, branding, packaging design, exhibition design, wayfinding and signage design, website and multimedia design to customized design consultation. We believe that great design is not just about communicating a message. It is about exploration and careful analysis of the values and the emotions that relate to a brand and the discovery of the methods that will enable it to come into being and more importantly, prosper.

Our work at pi6 has been awarded by the most prestigious design competitions and poster biennales and has been published in the national and international media. Michael is Associate Professor and Graphic Design program coordinator at Deree – The American College of Greece, while both Rena and Michael have led various design workshops, been members of judging committees and taken part in numerous design exhibitions. Furthermore, they are co-founders and co-organisers of the biannual Design Walk exhibition in Athens.

Terrazzo Mio

Angeliki and Niki Koundouraki were born twins a morning of the January of 1984 in Heraklion of Crete. They spend their childhood there until they went to study -always together- to Kavala. Angeliki studied Business administration and Niki Information Management.
They had never lived apart in their life except for a semester Angeliki spend in Austria as an Erasmus student.
After their studies, Niki went back to Crete to work in the tourism industry and Angeliki got married and had 2 cute children with Antonis while they were working at his family business.
15 years later, at one of her regular visits to Kavala on New years Eve of 2020, Niki decides to extent the visit. And then the pandemic hit the world.
The unexpected pandemic brought with it an abundance of time to reminisce and reflect upon their childhood memories. Growing up in a family of six in Heraklion, Crete together, they would spend countless hours playing with their siblings on the terrazzo floors of their apartment north of the city. Each and every room of the apartment was covered with these tiles in contrasting colors and patterns.
This memory was the beginning of all. Niki decides to move permanently to Kavala and start a new life and a new career. They looked for a material that could recreate the terrazzo effect but would be more versatile than concrete and less energy-consuming, certainly sustainable, and absolutely eco-friendly. Ecoresin was perfect.
One of those endless nights, in Angeliki’s terrace (terrazzo in Italian) all the ideas fell into place.
They created Terrazzo Mio and opened a little Etsy shop. less than a year later, Terrazzo Mio’s sustainable homewares have traveled from Japan to Hawai and from Seoul to Finland. Every time the twins sell a piece, they giggle at the idea that it decorates a house in a place far away they’ll probably never visit. This is their way to travel the world.

Fani Skoulikidi Boukouvala

Born in 1991 in Athens. She works as a set and costume designer, a graduate from the School of Drama of the Faculty of Fine Arts, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She often incorporates elements of visual arts in her designs. Other media that stimulate her work, include painting, sculpting and ceramics.

Kostas Karakitsos

Kostas Karakitsos was born in Kavala. He took his first ceramic art lessons at Georgia Galinou ceramics studio, in Serres.
Immediately after he set up his own ceramics studio, in Kavala, 1985. Since then he has taken part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Japan, Germany, Australia, Turkey, Switzerland etc) and he has made 10 individual exhibitions.
Since 1996 he is member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.
He has organized 3 international ceramic art symposiums in his new ceramics studio in Avramilia, Kavala where he lives and works the last 10 years. In the same place he is organizing multi-day ceramic art seminars in Ceramics-Camp frame.  Check more here.
He took part in many international symposiums in Greece, Slovenia, Italy, Turkey and Thailand.
He participated in the collective volume “Ceramic Figure of Artists” (2002) and in the collective tome “500 Figures of Clay” (2004, 2014).
His artwork can be found in personal collections, museums and universities.

Evi Papavergou

Evi Papavergou is the creator and founder of Structivi, the jewellery brand that takes its inspiration from geometric abstraction and proposes plexiglass and wood, laser-cut and thermal-forming wearable art objects.

Evi studied Fine Arts & Sciences of Art at University of Ioannina, Greece and holds a Masters degree at Gallery Studies and Critical Curating for the 21^st century, from Essex University, UK. Born in Kavala, Greece, she has been working for the past 13 years as a curator of education at Momus – Museum of Modern Art – Costakis Collection, in Thessaloniki.

Evangelia Kakadiari – Le Petit Renard

Le Petit Renard is a playful producer οf children’s toys and children’s room decoration from organic materials that aims to create high-quality, innovative, and responsibly made products. From our studio in Xanthi, we design products that encourage our little heroes to build and expand their imagination and curiosity. Our products are multipurpose and grow with the family, gathering stories and memories along the way.

Yours sincerely
The creator of Le Petit Renard
Evangelia Kakadiari, Preschool Teacher