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Ten Images for
Ithaca – Design Workshops
Ten Images for Ithaca offer to design students and young
professionals the opportunity to spend a week, this July, on
the island of Ithaca, focusing on design and the creative
process through two workshops led by British typographer and
educator Phil Baines and the creative directors of the
Athens based agency “pi6 communication design”.
Phil Baines
Phil Baines studied Graphic Design at St. Martin’s School of
Art (1985) and the Royal College of Art (1987). His design
practice includes high profile, one-off commissions; general
graphic design for arts organisations; and type design. Phil
is a Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martin’s,
University of the Arts London, a contributor at design
conferences and a frequent writer for Eye and other design
magazines. Part of his teaching responsibility is jointly
curating the Central Lettering Record with Catherine Dixon.
He has written four books: Type & Typography (with Andrew
Haslam, 2002), Signs: Lettering in the Environment (with
Catherine Dixon, 2003), Penguin by Design: A Cover Story
1935–2005 (2005) and Puffin by Design: 70 Years of
Imagination (2010).
pi6 - Rena Chrysikopoulou & Michael David Ochs
Rena Chrysikopoulou and Michael David Ochs met in Germany
where they both studied visual communication at the Kassel
University of Arts (Kunsthochschule Universität Kassel).
They have worked in design agencies based in Barcelona,
Kassel, Frankfurt and Athens with clients such as Hewlett
Packard, Merck, Alpha Bank, Pepsico-HBH, Elbisco, Thonet and
Credit Suisse. Rena has worked as well in the Image and
Identity department of ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, as a
senior designer. In 2005 they co-founded “pi6 communication
design” based in Athens, Greece. Their work has received
various distinctions, amongst others in the Type Directors
Club New York, European Design Awards, iF Communication
Design Awards, International Poster Biennale Warsaw and the
Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards. They are
co-founders and co-organisers of the annual Design Walk
exhibition in Athens and they teach Typography at Vakalo
College of Art and Design. Rena and Michael are members of
the Greek Graphic Designers Association.
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