Costas Politis
Chief Executive Director

Costas Politis was born in Athens in 1947 and has worked in the advertising business since 1969.

He studied Applied Graphic Arts at “Doksiadis School”.

He has worked in agencies such as Interad, Ikon and Producta.

In 1978, he joined the team of Bold Advertising and has been Head Creative Director of Bold Ogilvy until 2000. Following that, he became Chief Executive Director of Design Direct.

He has been a president of the Graphic Artists’ Union, president of the 11th Hellenic Festival of Advertising (2001) and member of the judgment board of the Festival for many years.

He has been awarded at the Hellenic Festival of Advertising and participated in company identity design contests in Greece and abroad many times.

Grania Kelway
Senior Art Director

Grania Kelway was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1954.

From 1990 until 2002, Grania worked in McCann Erickson Athens, an advertising company in Athens, Greece, and has worked with clients’ projects such as: Coca-Cola, Fanta, Telestet, OPEL, British School At Athens, Goody’s, Flocafe, Motorola.

In 2002, she joined the Design Direct, a company belonging to the Bold Ogilvy group, as a Senior Art Director. Until today, she has handled clients’ projects such as: ERT, Elbisco, TIM, KRAFT, Pizza Hut, Institute of Communication, SATO, Semeli Winery.

She has been a member of the judgment board of the Hellenic Festival of Advertising and has been honoured with many awards at the following festivals:

• Hellenic Festival of Advertising
• London Festival of Advertising
• New York Festival