Professor Klimis Mastoridis
Klimis Mastoridis is Professor of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
The first Greek to have been awarded a PhD in Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading (UK, 1997), supported by an Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholarship, he is also a Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and the Institute of Paper, Printing and Publishing (IP3). He is Director of the Institute for the Study of Typography and Visual Communication (ISTVC), initiator of the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), as well as director and editor of the academic journal Hyphen, a typographic forum. He is the author of the books Θέματα αναπαραγωγής και εκτύπωσης (Reproduction and printing issues, 1988, 1993, 1997; new edn 2010) and Casting the Greek newspaper: a study of the morphology of the ‘ephemeris’ from its origins until the introduction of mechanical setting (1999).
His research interests include the history and technology of printing and typographic design for visual communication. As Chairman of AlterVision SA, General Director of Typophilia Publishing, and Director of the University of Macedonia Press (established with EU funding in 1998), he has supervised numerous print, editorial and information design projects over the past fifty years. In these roles, he has worked as an editor and publisher, as well as a designer and typographic consultant to government bodies and major private organisations.
He has published extensively on the history and practice of printing and has served on scientific and organising committees for international conferences, as well as on juries for national and international design competitions. He served as Head of the University of Nicosia Department of Design and Multimedia for six years (2008–2014), Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2016–2020), and Dean of the same School (2020–2026). In 2015, he received honorary recognition from the International Gutenberg Society for his long-standing membership.
