Semiotik Design Agency-Profile
Semiotik Design Agency-Services
Semiotik Design Agency-A record of great collaborations
Semiotik Design Agency-Awards
Semiotik Design Agency-Publications featuring our work
Semiotik Design Agency-Lectures
Semiotik Design Agency-Exhibitions

Profile

Our origins lie in an enduring engagement with typography and in the conviction that design is fundamentally an act of human connection.

Founded in 2014, Semiotik Design is an independent design consultancy dedicated to shaping how companies, organisations and individuals express themselves, communicate their values and participate in contemporary culture.

Over the past decade, the studio has developed identity systems, publications, digital experiences and communication systems for institutions, organisations and brands across finance, hospitality, retail, mobility, sport, technology and the arts. Recognition from international design institutions and repeated distinctions reflect an enduring commitment to thoughtful, rigorous and culturally relevant work, but more importantly, they reinforce our belief that design acquires value through the meaning it creates and the relationships it sustains.

Design as cultural practice

We understand design as a participation in culture. Every identity, publication, interface or environment contributes to the way institutions are perceived, organisations are understood and ideas circulate within society. Design shapes behaviour, establishes relationships and leaves traces that often outlive the conditions in which it was created.

Structuring the conditions for understanding

Our work seeks to bring clarity to complexity. Through systems, hierarchies, narratives and visual frameworks, we create the conditions through which people can navigate information, interpret meaning and establish connections. We believe understanding is structured and carefully maintained.

Typography as a form of stewardship

Typography remains at the centre of our practice not simply as a cultural concern. It carries language across generations and contexts, preserving knowledge while continuously adapting to new conditions. To work with typography is to participate in a lineage of transmission, responsibility and care, one that extends beyond aesthetics.

Aiming for meaning and ethos

We are interested in work that aspires to relevance beyond novelty. Meaning gives design purpose, ethos gives it character. Together they shape identities that are not only recognised, but trusted, remembered and understood. In an environment increasingly defined by immediacy and excess, we continue to value clarity, substance and cultural resonance.

The studio was founded by designer, typographer and creative director Dimitris Koliadimas following almost two decades of practice and creative leadership. He has collaborated with international brands, organisations and cultural institutions, including Volvo Cars, Alpha Bank and Euroleague Basketball. His work and direction has received recognition from the ISTD International Typographic Awards, Art Directors Club Europe (ADCE), Type Directors Club (TDC), D&AD, Red Dot, European Design Awards and also at the Greek Communication Design Awards.

His perspective continues to shape the culture of the studio: a belief in intellectual curiosity over convention, substance over spectacle and design as a discipline capable of contributing to public life, cultural discourse and collective memory. 

Semiotik Design remains intentionally independent, collaborative in spirit and committed to the enduring cultural value of design as practice.

Services

  • Brand strategy and development
  • Brand identity and architecture
  • Brand expression and voice
  • Typography
  • Visual systems and graphics
  • Communication guidelines
  • Naming, taxonomy and taglines
  • Editorial design and publications
  • Copywriting
  • Product and packaging design
  • Art direction and photography
  • Signage systems
  • Spatial design
  • Retail and exhibition staging
  • Installations
  • Web and interactive design
  • Motion graphics
  • App design
  • Presentations

A record of great collaborations

Art and Culture

  • Alpha Bank
  • CoType Foundry
  • Lineto
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)
  • Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
  • Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)
  • Qualco Foundation
  • Nicosia International Festival
  • The Beatles
  • Yessios Museum

Corporate & Finance

  • Alpha Bank
  • Copelouzos Group
  • Volvo Cars
  • Volvo Cars Greece
  • Qualco Group
  • Quant
  • Lidl Hellas
  • Lidl Cyprus

Architecture and Industry

  • AkzoNobel
  • Manhattan Projects New York City (MPNYC)
  • The Architect Show
  • Trail Practice
  • Elastic Architects
  • Mutiny Architects
  • IGM Group
  • Future Format
  • Milkplan
  • Doppler
  • Mega Systems

Sports and Entertainment

  • Volvo Ocean Race
  • Euroleague Basketball
  • Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association
  • Adidas
  • Neos Kosmos Theater
  • Fine! Records

Retail and Lifestyle

  • Montegrappa
  • Attica Department Stores
  • Eme Ese
  • Voi Wines
  • Septona
  • Dust+Cream
  • Domes Resorts
  • Ekies

Awards

2025 Agency of the year
Greek Communication Design Awards

2025

Greek Communication Design Awards
Award, Logotype – Yessios Museum
Award, Album cover – Pavlos Pavlidis, Brancaleone (Fine! Records)
Award, Corporate brochure – Montegrappa, A tradition of invention
Award, Environmental graphics – Knossos Theater (Neos Kosmos Theater)
Award, Packaging – EME ESE
Μerit, Exhibition and artist catalogue – Future Format, Elements 2
Merit, Environmental graphics and signage – Yessios Museum
Merit, Flyer – Yessios Museum
Merit, Album cover – Pavlos Pavlidis, Brancaleone LP, Collectors edition (Fine! Records)
Merit, General Category – Pavlos Pavlidis, Commemorative edition (Fine! Records)
Merit, Integrated identity applications – Pavlos Pavlidis, Brancaleone LP (Fine! Records)

2024

ISTD International Typographic Awards
Certificate of Excellence Packaging – Voi Wines

2023 Agency of the year
Greek Communication Design Awards

Publications featuring our work

2025
Stencil in use (Viction Workshop)
Poster Archive 200 PA200 (Offcuts)

2024
Sans in use (Viction Workshop)
Beyond Design: Special printing effects and their application (Sandu Publishing)

2023
New Utilitarian (Viction Workshop)
Étapes n°270 Diplômes d’écoles d’art et de design 2022 (Etapes Eds)

Lectures

2025
Athens Design Days

2023
Labasad, Barcelona school of Arts and Design
Sideline Remote, Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts

2022
The Design Process, Open University of Greece 

2019
IFES World Summit
College Lecture Anatolia, American College of Thessaloniki 

Exhibitions

2025
Future Format Elements 2
(Hyper Hypo, Athens, Greece)

2023
Red Dot Design Museum permanent exhibition
(Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore, China)

2017
From the shadows of the Moulin Rouge into the light of Pireos Avenue
(Benaki Museum, Pireos and Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece)

2012
Dynamic City
(State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece)

2011
Work and extensions of Designers United
(Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece)