My name is Anastasios C Pappas, born in 1975 (Athens, Greece). I always has a "thing" with visual arts and handcrafts so the decision to extend my knowledge in the field was easy. As a graduate of Delta Schools of Business and Technology (Graphics Designer), I had the opportunity to test myself in several jobs from old-fashioned printshops to some new - at the time - companies who offered what they called "the internet".

Back then, web design was a vague term and a "graphics designer" was expected to do wedding cards or restaurant catalogs at best. Who knew about web?

By the time, I got involved in more advanced web design techniques and technologies and exceed my boundaries in areas outside graphic design. I saw (even tried myself) how a webpage is coded, how a shopping cart grows and how a user favorites list fetches data from a database. All these are common practices today but then nothing was to be taken for granted.

I consider myself as an eternal student and I always looking for "the challenge". If you have a project and feel it doesn't really covered by what it is offered is here, just write a few lines about it and we can discuss about it.

 

The most important millestones in my career so far are following ...

  • 1994 Certicifate by Berufsschulzentrum Glockenspitz (Krefeld, Germany) and Delta Schools of Business and Technology for a their European Partnership in practicing analysis and brainstorming, plate production and industrial printshop procedures.
  • 1997 Graduation from Delta Schools of Business and Technology and Certificate as a Graphics Designer.
  • 1999 A CD packaging solution (Layout insert, sleeve, booklet and label) for a music compilation named "The Beginning" wins a honorable mention and Monthly Prize during the 9th Corel World Design Contest in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • 1999 1st Prize in World Web Design Contest held by IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) for "1999 - The Year of Athletics".
  • 2002 One of my fist attempts to build a personal website (www.welldone.ws) was succesful enough to win a Gold Ermis Award for individual sites category.
  • 2006 Oxygene Studios is founded!
  • 2007 Partnership with Likno Software established.
  • 2009 Oxygene Studios works with DForm Webbureau and C3 Media Ltd in selected projects.
  • 2010 Oxygene Studios v1 is up!