[01] AKTO @ Athens Xclusive Designers Week [02] Presentation of

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[01] AKTO @ Athens Xclusive Designers Week
Andre Anastasiou and Chloe Boubari, AKTO’s First Class
finalists, participated with great success in the 19th Athens
Xclusive Designers Week, and presented their original
creations. Andre Anastasiou’s first collection was based on
her homeland’s tradition, Cyprus, and told the story of her
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grandfather who was selling traditional embroidery. Andre
gave them new life in the 21st Century by presenting them
in her new collection. Chloe Bourbari loves knitted work,
and this was her final project topic here at AKTO. Having
undertaken intense research based on spiral forms, she
was inspired by the colours of the wall paintings of Knosos
and created a collection that is flooded by orange, the colour
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of sand, brown, burgundy, white, beige and khaki.
[02] Presentation of the Photographer Maria Stefosi
The Photographic works of Photographer and AKTO
graduate Maria Stefosi, were presented in context of a
series of lectures organized by the Photography Programme
on Wednesday the 16/3. Maria Stefosi was introduced by
the Programme Leader, Alkis Xanthakis, while Joanna’s
Spiliopoulou’s video art was also presented.
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[03] Smart Guide & ΑΚΤΟ Innovation Lab
A team of selected Product Design students and graduates
making up the ΑΚΤΟ Innovation Lab are working on the
Blind Lighthouse project, “Smart Guide”. It is a mobile
electronic navigation device for people with vision limita-
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tions, which detects and warns for obstacles within a given
space. The project in progress is in collaboration with INTRACOM and is supervised by Christina Scouloudi, tutor
and Product Designer.
[04] Graphic Stories Cyprus
ΑΚΤΟ graduate, Aggeliki Michalopoulou, is a co-organser
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(together with Miltos Karras) of the annual meeting
of Visual Communication Designers of Cyprus. An
outstanding event that aims at cultivating art education and
developing critical thinking on contemporary Graphic Arts.
It consists of exhibitions, conferences and workshops, and
attempts to highlight the value of visual communication to
the broader public.
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[05] “All about Fashion” | Paris Valtadoros
Our Fashion Designers welcomed Paris Valtadoros, known
designer and graduate of AKTO, at the “All about Fashion”
presentations, with his especially interesting presentation –
discussion about fashion. Nicos Kalogeropoulos (Fashion
Marketing tutor) introduced Paris, who shared with students
his experiences as well as important moments in his career.
An exciting dialogue followed with students comments and
questions.
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