Panos Vassiliou is an award-winning designer.

Two years after his graduation from the University of Toronto/Canada, where he studied Applied Science and Engineering, he pursued a teaching career at George Brown College/Toronto, first in the Information Systems Department and later in the Media & Graphic Arts Department. Later he became Creative Director for the Canadian design firm AdHaus and Publisher of the Greek monthly magazine DNA. He has designed typefaces since 1993, including commercial fonts as well as commissions from the Financial Times, Vodafone, Nestle, IKEA, Kraft and National Geographic. He is regularly invited as a guest speaker to conferences and seminars, to speak on typography and related topics.

After moving to Greece, he started Parachute in 1999 setting the base for a typeface library that reflected the works of some of the best contemporary Greek designers, as well as creatives around the world obsessed with type.

He received a merit award for his typeface Archive at the EBGE Awards 2004.

In 2008, he won a Gold Award at the European Design ED Awards, for the typeface superfamilies Centro Pro.

The following year, he received three awards for Excellence in Type Design from the International Type Design Competition ‘Modern Cyrillic 2009’ which was held in Moscow.

In 2010, he received a Silver Award for Encore Sans from the European Design ED Awards and four awards from Granshan 2010 the 3rd International Eastern Type Design Competition.

Panos Vassiliou is an award-winning designer.