Themis Chapsis

Current

Editor in chief at Cmyk Magazine [Gr]
Graphic Designer & Project Manager at PointOfDesign
Creative Software Educator at AKTO Art & Design School

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Past

Freelance Professional in Greece at Adobe Systems
Print Media Consultant / Trainer at Anodos sa - Adobe Authorized distributor
Contributing writer at Adobe Magazine [Gr]

Co-Founder & board Chairman at Visual Communication Designers Club

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Education

AKTO

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Industry

Graphic Design

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Themis Chapsis’s Summary

More than 2.500 hours of professional on site custom training, support and software migration focused on special needs and business characteristics of each different customer, with strong background on graphic arts technology, prepress, press and knowledge both of Adobe and non-adobe print media applications.

Successfully drove adoption of Adobe Creative Suite at design agencies, magazine, newspaper, and book publishers, with ability to analyze and build improved, more effective and productive, time saving, yet creative workflows.

Supported Adobe sales and marketing efforts via presentations, market analysis reports for the Greek region, evaluating terminology of Greek localized products and providing technical demonstrations for various customers, trade shows, Adobe launch tours, seminars,user groups, special campaigns and sales efforts in Greek region.

Developed professional relationships with solutions providers, graphic arts professional associations, design schools, design and technical magazines, graphic arts software and hardware distributors.

Deep knowledge of the Greek graphic arts market based on experience as a design school teacher, print media consultant, instructor, public speaker, magazine editor - contributing writer and co-founder of vcdc.gr (Greek visual communication community with +4.500 members).

Responsible, problem solver, good “team-player” with great sense of humor, new applications and technology enthusiast.

The founder of Pointofdesign, distinguished 4 times at Greek graphic design & Illustration awards.

Adobe beta tester and speaker/presenter at many design conferences and software presentations. With a strong background in graphic arts technology and experience with Adobe applications, he is a trainer, DTP consultant, teacher at Akto Art & Design school, and contributing writer for CMYK and Adobe magazines.

Adobe Certified Expert Ai, ID
Adobe Certified Instructor Ai, ID
Athens InDesign User Group Representative

Themis Chapsis’s Specialties:

Printed communication:
Corporate Identity, Book design & Illustration, Brochure Design, Web Design

Training / Consulting:
Professional training on Adobe software & Dtp consulting

Editorial activities:
Writing articles about graphic arts technology, color management, pdf workflow, Adobe software, applied Typography.

Software activities:
Past : QuarkXpress & CorelDraw Beta tester
Present : Adobe software beta testing
Adobe localized software linguistic evaluation and review

Themis Chapsis’s Experience

Editor in chief

Cmyk Magazine [Gr]

(Printing industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

I am a contributing writer at CMYK - a magazine about graphic arts, prepress & press technology - at Athens Greece.
Graphic Designer & Project Manager

PointOfDesign

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years)
Creative Software Educator

AKTO Art & Design School

(Higher Education industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

I am teaching Digital Design to Graphic & Fashion Designers. I am also training Graphic Designers graphic art & prepress technology on specialized seminars.
Freelance Professional in Greece

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — June 2009 (10 months)

I worked for Adobe South Africa and Adobe Turkey as a freelance professional.
Print Media Consultant / Trainer

Anodos sa - Adobe Authorized distributor

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year)
Contributing writer

Adobe Magazine [Gr]

(Graphic Design industry)

September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Co-Founder & board Chairman

Visual Communication Designers Club

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

January 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 9 months)