
Yannis Aggelakos Graphic Designer
Yiannis K. Aggelakos was born in Tripoli, Greece, in 1977, and is the founder and creative force behind his eponymous multidisciplinary design studio. Operating as a strategic visual communication designer and 3D modeller/animator, he provides forward-thinking branding solutions that seamlessly blend artistic excellence with market-driven strategy.
His professional journey in the creative industry began with intensive training in digital arts at the Parsers School of Computer Graphics & Animation. He then expanded his academic and artistic horizons in the United Kingdom at Staffordshire University, where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Electronic Graphics and subsequently earned his Master’s degree, an MA in Interactive Multimedia.
Today, utilizing his diverse skillset, he collaborates with private enterprises, public sector organizations, and state educational institutions globally. His approach to visual arts treats design not merely as aesthetic embellishment, but as a core business driver that helps contemporary brands communicate effectively and scale.
Expertise in Professional Logo Design & Brand Identity
In today’s hyper-competitive marketplace, establishing a memorable first impression is paramount. A company’s logo serves as the cornerstone of its entire public persona. Yiannis Aggelakos approaches every logo design project with rigorous market research and competitor analysis, distilling the core values, heritage, and vision of an organization into a timeless, iconic, and highly scalable emblem.
True visual communication, however, requires absolute cross-platform consistency. To achieve this, the studio delivers comprehensive corporate identity systems. By defining precise corporate color palettes, typographic hierarchies, and bespoke graphic elements, we compile detailed Brand Guidelines (Brand Manuals). This ensures that your business projects uncompromised professionalism across every single touchpoint—ranging from digital environments like custom user interfaces, targeted social media content, and interactive ebooks, to traditional print layouts and marketing collateral. Whether working with an ambitious startup building its image from scratch or an established corporation executing a complete corporate rebranding, we engineer the visual infrastructure needed for market distinction.
Premium Packaging Design & Structural Branding
If a logo represents the voice of a company, its packaging is its most vital ambassador on the retail shelf. Strategic packaging design is one of the most demanding yet commercially rewarding sales tools a business can invest in. The studio treats product packaging as a tactile bridge connecting consumer emotion directly with the intrinsic quality of the product itself.
The structural and graphic development process balances high-end aesthetics with structural engineering and production functionality. Every layout takes into account eco-friendly material selection, sustainability, manufacturing costs, and ergonomics.
Given Greece’s thriving export market for premium agrifood products, packaging design for luxury goods—specifically olive oil packaging design and wine label design—has become a specialized hallmark of the studio. We understand how to capture the unique narrative of local products and translate it into a sophisticated, international design language that captivates modern global consumers. From initial bottle selection to advanced post-print finishes like embossing, debossing, hot foil stamping, and custom die-cuts, our creative studio ensures a premium final product that commands a higher perceived value on the shelf.
International Awards, Design Exhibitions & Visual Arts
The caliber of Yiannis Aggelakos’ work has been repeatedly recognized by prestigious international design institutions and creative communities. His achievements include accolades at the Design and Design Awards, Foturion.gr, and selection within the highly competitive Daily Dozen of National Geographic Yourshot for his photographic work.
Furthermore, his commercial packaging design projects have been featured on premier global design showcases, including Packaging of the World, the World Brand Design Society, and I Love Graphic. His poster work has also been published in leading trade publications such as Print and gr design magazines.
His multi-disciplinary creative reach extends deeply into cinematography, curation, and user experience:
Cinematography & CGI: Acted as director of photography, CGI artist, and graphic designer for two short films that were screened at major Greek and international film festivals.
Poster Exhibitions: Participated in the “100 Posters for Crete” exhibition, the “Idol” illustration competition at FantasticArt, and was a featured finalist in the international Covid-19 pandemic poster exhibition in China (organized by Li Xu Design and Oleg Veklenko at the Wenzhou Library) as well as the Covid-19 Hellas public exhibition.
UX & Innovation: In 2020, he was a keynote presenter at the annual meeting of ACM GreekCHI, delivering a highly regarded talk titled “Designing a big app for a small museum,” showcasing his deep expertise in architecting complex digital experiences and user-centric interfaces.
His work as a designer and photographer has been awarded at the Design and Design Awards, at Foturion.gr and at the Daily Dozen of National Geographic Yourshot, while the packaging he designed has been presented at Packaging of the World, World Brand Design Society and I Love Graphic.
Posters he designed have been published in Print and gr design magazines.
He participated in the exhibition 100 Posters for Crete, in the illustration competition on the theme “Idol” of FantasticArt 2019, within the framework of Fantasticon 2019 and was a finalist in the exhibition organized by LI XU (Li Xu Design) together with Oleg Veklenko, in the library of Wenzhou (Zhejiang province) in China on the topic of the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the poster exhibition organized by the municipality of Kaisarianis and gr design magazine on Covid-19 Hellas at the bus stops of the Municipality.
In 2020 he participated in the annual meeting of ACM GreekCHI with his talk on “Designing a big app for a small museum”.