photo by Angelos Zymaras
product design services for manufacturers in Greece Europe and international - packaging design accessories furniture design objects
Athanasios Babalis is an industrial/product designer based in Thessaloniki Greece. His work ranges from electrical appliances and professional cooking equipment to furniture, home accessories and packaging.
He believes that all objects/products can be improved through good teamwork, so he spends a lot of his time researching and discussing ideas with clients and end users before putting pencil to paper.
He studied product and furniture design at the London Metropolitan University and at the Royal College of Art in London, England.
His professional career started in London as a freelance designer and continued in New York where he worked for seven years for companies such as Dimensional Media Associates Inc. and Dakota Jackson Inc.. In 2003 he returned to Thessaloniki where he established his design studio, through which he designs for a variety of clients.
In 2005 he started his academic career as professor of Furniture/Product Design at the state colleges of TEI of Western Macedonia and later at the TEI of Thessaly. Today he teaches design at the AKTO college and the International Hellenic University, in Thessaloniki.
In 2014, together with the designer Constantinos Hoursoglou, he co-founded www.shibui.ch.
awards and recognition
2019
Various product design awards at the BIGSEE (http://bigsee.eu/wood-awards/ ) Awards, Ljubljana, Slovenia, including a Grand Prix Award in the Wood Category.
2015
1st Place in the category of Champagne and Wine at the CWWWR Αwards by The Dieline (USA).
2011
the Green Good Design Αward (USA)
2011
EBGE awards (Greece)
2010
the Dieline Αwards packaging design competition (USA)
2007
the Bank of Greece, Art competition (GR)
the Ministry of Development - packaging design competition (GR)
2006
the Dromeas furniture design competition (GR)
1996
the British Standards Institute innovation award (UK, 1996)
1994 and 1995
the Royal Society of Arts student design awards (UK)
the Furnidec-Hellexpo design competition (GR)
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His work has been used as set design for a TV series (Channel 4, UK, 1994-5) a film (Peter Howitt's "Sliding Doors", 1998), and various TV advertisements
exhibitions
2015/16/17/18/19
"Maison & Objet", Paris, France
2017/18
"Salone del Mobile" Milan, Italy (with clients)
2014
"Index 2014", Dubai, UAE
"Maison & Objet", Paris, France
"imm Cologne", Germany
2013
"Made in Thessaloniki" Stuttgart, Germany
"DesignLab", Athens
2012
"DesignLab", Athens
"Furnidec Business", Thessaloniki
"Made in Thessaloniki", Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2011
"100% Design London 2011", London
2010
"Fuse 2010", Chicago
2009
"Design Lab", Athens
"Design 2009" at the embassy of Cyprus, Athens
Greek Secretariat of Industrial Design exhibition at "Bartessera", Athens
2008
Bienalle Internationale Design 2008 Saint Etienne, France
Greek Secretariat of Industrial Design exhibition at "Bartessera", Athens
Green Festival Athens 2008, Athens
2006 and 2007
Hellexpo-Furnidec, Thessaloniki (with COR3)
2005
Kodra Art Show, Thessaloniki (with COR3)
Fenafresh store, Thessaloniki (with COR3)
Stereosis Objects Gallery, Thessaloniki (with COR3)
2004
Secretariat for Youth, Thessaloniki (with COR3)
2001 and 2002
ICFF, New York (as part of Dakota Jackson Inc.)
1996
Royal College of Art and the Hammerson Gallery, London
1993 and 1994
New Designers in Business, Business Design Centre, London