
Steve Vranakis
Steve is an award winning creative who has worked on the launch of the iPhone and Amazon in... | Brighton, Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom
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Steve Vranakis’s Expertise Steve is an award winning creative who has worked on the launch of the iPhone and Amazon in the UK with NASA (Space Lab), The United Nations, UNICEF and headed up the Creative Lab at Google in EMEA for over 10 years. He was appointed as the first ever Chief Creative Officer for Greece to develop a new country narrative as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. To help the Tourism Industry cope with the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, he launched #GreeceFromHome and in an effort to make Athens a year round destination launched: Athens. The city is the museum. Some of his past projects include a machine learning AI musical instrument: the NSynth Super, Assembly of Youth, an installation giving youth a voice at the United Nations, Inside Abbey Road - a virtual tour of the iconic music studios, Project Jacquard - an interactive wearables fabric and Chrome Web Lab, an installation connected live to the internet from the Science Museum in London. You can view some of those projects here: https://youtu.be/MeHdXaSNaRU Steve also worked on the launch of project Bloks, a physical coding platform that teaches kids to code for which he was granted two Google patents and bringing dinosaurs back to life in Virtual Reality at the Natural History Museums in London and Berlin. In 2015 Steve went to the island of Lesvos to build a mobile information site (refugee.info) to help Syrian refugees fleeing civil war keep safe. This was scaled across dozens of NGO’s going on to help thousands of refugees. Steve’s work has been recognised by the D&AD (33 including 2 yellow pencils), Cannes Lions (12 including a Grand Prix and Marketer of the year), ADC, One Show's, Campaign Big, Webbys, Lovies, FWA, BIMA and Clios. Two of his projects are also in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (Sketchbots and Jacquard). His work has been featured in WIRED, The New York Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Creative Review, Huffington Post, FT, Design Week, Adage and he’s written columns for Adweek, Marketing, Campaign and conducted interviews with the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Lürzer's Archive and Shots. Steve has spoken at TEDx about 'Making technology matter', SingularityU about ‘Nation Branding’ and the Palais in Cannes on 'What creativity can do'. Steve also serves as an advisor to fashion technology startup unmade.com as well as SUPERPERSONAL, an AI company using visual personalisation tech. In 2017 he was president of D&AD where he made it his mission to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds get into the creative industries.
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Ddb
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Modem Media
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Wcrs London
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Fcb Global
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Vccp
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Google
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Tedxathens
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Unmade
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Government Of The Hellenic Republic
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Superpersonal
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The Hellenic Initiative
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Hellenic Canadian Chamber Of Commerce
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Greek National Tourism Organisation
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Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Wed Nov 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Greek National Tourism Organisation
Member Board of Directors
Sun Oct 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Hellenic Canadian Chamber Of Commerce
Executive Committee Member
Tue Jun 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Executive Creative Director, Creative Lab
Mon Mar 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Oct 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
The Hellenic Initiative
Honorary Director
Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Government Of The Hellenic Republic
Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece
Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Mon Mar 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Government Of The Hellenic Republic
Chief Creative Officer, Greece
Tue Oct 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Superpersonal
Advisor
Tue Oct 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Nov 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Executive board and D&AD President (2018)
Tue Sep 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Sep 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Unmade
Advisor
Tue Jul 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Sep 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Tedxathens
Speaker
Sat Dec 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Dec 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Executive Creative Director, Google Creative Lab
Fri Jul 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Oct 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Vccp
Executive Creative Director, Founding Partner
Tue Jan 01 2002 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Jul 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Fcb Global
SVP Creative Director
Sat Jan 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Jan 01 2002 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Wcrs London
Interactive Creative Director
Fri Jan 01 1999 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sat Jan 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Modem Media
Creative Director
Thu Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Jan 01 1999 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Ddb
Associate Creative Director
Mon Jan 01 1996 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Thu Jan 01 1998 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)