Description
Stathis born in Athens in 1972. After graduating in 1989 from the Moraitis School, he went on to study industrial design at Art Center College of Design in Vevey, Switzerland and at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA (graduated 1994). After two years of working in the design field in the U.S. he returned to Greece to collaborate with a number of architecture offices in the area of interior and furniture design.
In 2002 he founded a product design studio with his brother Vassilis Petropoulos, launching their own product lines and working with clients such as Korres, Heineken, Accessorize and Nestlé. In 2009 he started working in book illustration. His work has been featured on book covers and in children’s books published by prominent Greek publishing houses as well as in applications and games published by developers in Greece and abroad. He has also written and illustrated his own children’s book ‘Brown and Friends’ which was published by Psychogios Publishing.
In 2012 he wrote a collection of strange short stories about a hotel called Concordia. This year, he adapted these stories into his first published graphic novel, which he is launching at Athens Con in Athens. He has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and in 2015 he organized a solo illustration exhibition with the title “Searching for the end – Odyssey” at the Skoufa gallery in Athens, Greece. Since 2022, Stathis Petropoulos has been dedicating his creative efforts in fine art painting and is working towards a solo exhibition. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.
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