George Triantafyllakos holds a PhD in Participatory Design of
Educational Software from the Computer Science Department,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his BSc
from the same department. From 2011 to 2015 he was a tutor of
Interaction Design and Web Programming in Applied Arts Studies
College in Thessaloniki, Greece, a franchise partner college to
Central Lancashire University, UK. He freelances as a web developer
and graphic designer while running his own commercial type foundry
– Atypical (atypical.gr). He has
designed typefaces for the Greek Font Society (greekfontsociety-gfs.gr). In 2017
he participated More…
George Triantafyllakos holds a PhD in Participatory Design of Educational Software from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his BSc from the same department. From 2011 to 2015 he was a tutor of Interaction Design and Web Programming in Applied Arts Studies College in Thessaloniki, Greece, a franchise partner college to Central Lancashire University, UK. He freelances as a web developer and graphic designer while running his own commercial type foundry – Atypical (atypical.gr). He has designed typefaces for the Greek Font Society (greekfontsociety-gfs.gr). In 2017 he participated in the team of designers that won the competition for the design of the new visual identity of the National Library of Greece (George D. Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Papazoglou, George Triantafyllakos and Axel Peemöller). The same year he was a member of the jury committee of the Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards. In 2019 his custom type family Dolce Noir was awarded at the 11th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition (3rd prize / Greek–Latin typefaces).
About Atypical
Atypical is an independent commercial type foundry initiated and operated by George Triantafyllakos (a.k.a. backpacker.gr) from the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Its goal is to offer original text and display typefaces that are in line with current designers' needs and able to face contemporary design challenges and problems. Atypical fonts are available in a wide variety of styles, weights and languages, supporting more than 200 latin based languages, plus Greek (of course — εξάλλου, η δημιουργία πρωτότυπων ελληνικών γραμματοσειρών ήταν ίσως το βασικότερο κίνητρο για την δημιουργία του Atypical).
