Panos Vassiliou is an award-winning designer. Two years after his graduation from the University of Toronto/Canada, he pursued a teaching career at George Brown College/Toronto, first in the Information Systems Department and later in the Media & Graphic Arts Department. He has been Creative Director for the Canadian design firm AdHaus and former Publisher of the Greek monthly magazine DNA. He designs typefaces since 1993, including commercial fonts as well as commissions from companies such as 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. Some of his popular designs include Centro Pro, Square Sans Pro and Champion Script Pro. He received a merit award for his typeface Archive at the EBGE Awards 2004. As early as spring 2004 he released Archive Pro, his first opentype font with special typographic features and multilingual support for all European languages including Greek and Cyrillic. In 2008, he received a Gold Award from 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. Most recently, he received a Silver Award from the European Design ED Awards 2010 for the superfamily Encore Sans Pro and three awards from Granshan 2010 the 3rd International Eastern Type Design Competition.