I am an interactive designer at OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens.
When I am not doing commissioned work I spend time
hanging out at the VCDC online forum
and my personal weblog. Welcome!
Personal:
Konstantinos P. Penlidis
Date of birth: 01/10/1978
Languages: Greek (Native), English (Fluent)
Work:
2005-2008: Fulltime position as Flash designer in the OgilvyInteractive team of OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens (+).
2001-2008: Freelance designer
Awards:
NY Festivals 2008:
Silver World Medal, "Best Viral Advertising Campaign" Category, Innovative Advertising Awards @ OgilvyOne Worldwide
Ermis Awards 2007:
1 Grand Ermis (Web Awards), 1 Innovation Award (Ermis Direct), 5 Ermis Gold Awards, 1 Ermis Silver Award, 4 Ermis Bronze Awards (Vodafone, Sprite, Toyota, OTENET, Interamerican) @ OgilvyOne Worldwide
Ermis Web Awards 2006:
1 Ermis Gold Award, 2 Ermis Bronze Awards (BP, OTENET, Odeon) @ OgilvyOne Worldwide
Academic:
2001-2003: Staffordshire University, School of Art & Design (+), MA Interactive Multimedia. Researched areas of design related to user interfaces, organising and creating applications and worked on designing the user interface for a patient record tracking system for medicine.
1998-2001: Staffordshire University, School of Art & Design, BA with honours in Design: Multimedia Graphics. Worked on interactive projects, e-commerce, website building, video editing, 3D animation and design history and theory.
1997: Staffordshire University, School of Art & Design, "Level zero in Design, basic design principles and overall coverage of all aspects of design. Worked with wood, metal, glass, pottery, freehand, architectural and finally digital.
1995-1997: Architectural and Freehand Drawing
Participations:
2005: Started up the largest online community website for designers and creative professionals in Greece, VCDC (+). I 've also been managing advertising and general promotion for VCDC for the last year
2004: Spoke about Web Design in a conference about the Web by the Greek Graphic Designers Association (+)
2003: Participated in an excibition for the 5 years of +design magazine (+), as part of the 10 promising new-blood designers in Greece.
Partnerships:
Netstudio Advertising (+)
Michael Sfictos - Web Designer(+)
Dimitris Savvakos - Web Designer (+)
Loud Communications (+)