About

The Birthdays Design is an award winning design studio, founded by Konstantina Yiannakopoulou & George Strouzas, in Athens/Greece. Studio works with a diverse range of clients, locally and abroad, in a range of commissioned projects, for print and digital media for cultural and commercial sector. Through methodology, we aim to highlight the most important elements of communication by analysing the context and content, in order to establish, or embrace, an interesting idea and a strong narrative.

Services include: Logotypes, Visual Identity, Editorial, Packaging, Web design, Corporate Editions (Brand Manuals, Annual Reports), Signage, Environmental Graphics, Custom typefaces, Web and Print Campaigns.

Studio's work has been awarded in local and global competitions, selected and published in several international magazines, books and exhibitions. Both of the members are design educators in the Graphic Design sector of AKTO College of Art & Design, and have developed an academic research and development in collaboration with Vakalo art & design college, in Athens/Greece.

Contact

hello@thebirthdaysdesign.com
26-28 Asklipiou str. 10680, Athens

+30.212.104.8758

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Publications

Our work has been published in several global magazines and books. If you are interested in publishing our work please contact here.

100 Buecher die alle Designer
av.edition (DE) — 2019
Slanted Magazine issue #34
Slanted Publishers (DE) — 2019
WIN OUT - Apparel & Equipment
Sandu Publishing (CN) — 2019
Typodarium
Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz (DE) — 2019
Concept Stores & Pop-ups
Victionary (CN) — 2019
A New Perspective on Women Graphic Designers in Europe
Niggli Verlag (CH) — 2019
Bi-Scriptual
Nigli Verlag & Eps51 (CH) — 2018
Typefaces Endowed with Extraordinary Feature 2
Designers Books (CN) — 2018
Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards
Graphopress (GR) — 2018
Typodarium
Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz (DE) — 2018
Slanted #30 — Athens
Slanted Publishers (DE) — 2017
Typodarium
Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz (DE) — 2017
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2016
Graphopress (GR) — 2017
Bi-Scriptual
Eps51 (DE) — 2017
Typeface Design
Designers Books (CN) — 2017
Tourism Product Creative Design
Image Publishing (CN) — 2017
Design and Design book of the year vol.08
Design and Design (FR) — 2015
Excellent Branding Identity
Hightone (CN) — 2014
Infinite Illustration
Ginko Press (USA) — 2014
Eat & Go
Sandu (CH) — 2014
Selected D
Index Books (SP) — 2013
Amazing Layout
Dopress (CH) — 2013
Pallete 04: Pastel - New Soft-Toned Graphics
Victionary (CN) — 2013
The Worlds Best Graphics
Chois Gallery Vol. 22 (CN) — 2013
Attractive Design Without Illustration
Pie Books (JP) — 2013
Corporate Design Book
Zeixs (DE) — 2013

Awards

The Birthdays Design has participated in several award competitions, in local or global scene. Some of the distinctions or awards are mentioned here:

EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2021
IME GSEVEE Annual Report — Award — Corporate Editions
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2021
In Between — Award — Promotional Material
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2021
TBD Armin — Award — Experimental Work
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2021
Talking to Strangers — Merit — Book Cover
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2021
Burger Fest '20 — Merit — Brand Applications
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2020
Nostrum — Award — Health and Beaty Packaging Design
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2020
Love — Award — Poster Design
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2020
Tarte Tatin — Award — Brand Identity
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2020
Burger Fest '19 — Merit — Brand Applications
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2020
Popular Science — Merit — Book Cover
ERMIS Awards 2018
Aiora Wines — Finalist — Packaging Design
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2018
Burger Fest '18 — Finalist — Poster Design
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2018
Moschopolis Brochure — Finalist — Promo material
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2018
Parents Series — Finalist — Book Covers
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2017
Football Pro — Silver — Environmental Graphics
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2017
Sworr. — Silver — Unpublished Project
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2017
TBD X E.S. — Silver — Self promotion
ERMIS Awards 2017
Football Pro — Silver — Environmental Graphics
ERMIS Awards 2017
Moschopolis Wines — Silver — Packaging Design
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2016
Citywide Electric — Silver — Corporate Identity
EBGE: Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2016
Armiriki BTFC Limited — Finalist — General Category

Lectures/Exhibitions

The Birthdays Design has been honoured to have been invited in several Lectures, exhibitions and workshops, on interesting subjects and across Europe.

SPOILER –– Aktionsraum Moabit
Exhibition, Berlin 2020
12th annual PDP Conference
AllStars Exhibition, Servia / Novi Sad 2020
Ame Laroc Festival
Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil 2020
Postera & Polish Design Association
Disinformation / Exhibition, Warsaw, Polland 2019
Birmingham Design Festival
Truth / Exhibition, Birmingham, UK 2019
Cultural parameters on the nature of mass production in product design and visual communication, as presented at the Ulm School of design, 1953-1968
Post Nostalgia / Vakalo, Exhibition, Romantso 2019
Starting from pedagogy and reaching to the world
Deree - The American College of Greece, Lecture, Athens 2019
Sundays VS Mondays: On Ulm School of design
DesignAthens 4, Athens 2018
Editorial Design Workshop
AMAKA, Athens 2017