Steve Vranakis
- Chief Creative Officer
- United Kingdom
- Member since 2004
Steve is an award winning creative who has worked on the launch of the iPhone and Amazon in the UK with NASA (Space Lab), The United Nations, UNICEF and headed up the Creative Lab at Google in EMEA for eight years. Most recently he was appointed as the Chief Creative Officer for Greece to help develop a new country narrative as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Some of his projects include: a machine learning musical instrument called the NSynth Super, Assembly of Youth, an installation giving youth a voice at the United Nations, Inside Abbey Road - a virtual tour of the iconic music studios, Project Jacquard - an interactive wearables fabric and Chrome Web Lab, an installation connected live to the internet from the Science Museum in London.
Steve also worked on the launch of project Bloks, a physical coding platform that teaches kids to code for which he was granted two Google patents and bringing dinosaurs back to life in Virtual Reality at the Natural History Museums in London and Berlin.
In 2015 Steve went to the island of Lesvos to build a mobile information site (refugee.info) to help Syrian refugees fleeing civil war keep safe.
His work has been featured in WIRED, The New York Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Creative Review, Huffington Post, FT, Design Week, Adage and he’s written columns for Adweek, Marketing, Campaign and conducted interviews with the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Lürzer's Archive and Shots.
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D&AD Awards (8)
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Chrome Super Sync Sports
- Graphic Design
- Graphic Design
- Digital & Mobile
- 2014
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Reality Check
- TV & Cinema Communications
- VCCP
- Standard Life
- TV & Cinema Communications
- Channel Branding & Identity
- 2011
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Chrome Super Sync Sports
- Crafts for Advertising
- Crafts for Advertising
- Animation & Illustration for Mobile Marketing
- 2014
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JAM With Chrome
- Art Direction
- Google Creative Lab London
- Google Chrome, Chrome
- Art Direction
- Art Direction for Digital Advertising
- 2013
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JAM With Chrome
- Crafts for Design
- Google Creative Lab London
- Google Chrome, Chrome
- Crafts for Design
- Sound Design & Use of Music for Websites & Digital Design
- 2013
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comparethemeerkat.com
- Integrated
- VCCP
- comparethemarket.com
- Integrated
- Integrated
- 2010
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Binge Drinking
- Integrated
- VCCP
- The Home Office
- Integrated
- Integrated
- 2009
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BMW Approved Used Cars
- Interactive & Digital Media
- WCRS
- BMW
- Interactive & Digital Media
- Online Advertising
- 2001