Phaedon Anastasiades was a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 Graphic Designer

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

 and Painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 (February 28, 1970 – June 23, 2001).

Studies

He graduated from the Athens Combined Lyceum in Applied Arts in 1987, and attended the Vakalo School of Arts and Design, with applied studies in visual communication and advertising from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 and 1991 he attended Harrow College

Harrow College

Harrow College is the largest college in the London Borough of Harrow. It opened in 1999 following a merger of two former local colleges, Greenhill College and Weald College .Ofsted has reported the college as Outstanding for Social and Educational Inclusion...

, a division of Central London Polytechnic. From 1991 to 1994, he studied for his BA in Visual Communication and Illustration at Wolverhampton University, UK. In 1993 he studied at the Royal Academy of File Art in (Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

, Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

), through the Erasmus Programme

Erasmus Programme

The Erasmus Programme , a.k.a. Erasmus Project is a European Union student exchange programme established in 1987...

.

Career

Anastasiades returned to Greece in 1994, and served in the Navy during 1995 and 1996. He worked as an illustrator in "Artoon

Artoon

Artoon is a computer and video game third-party developer established in 1999. The team was primarily affiliated in the United States with recent and current Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 projects, although they had also worked with Hudson Soft and Nintendo on other platforms...

" (Background Department), producing episodes for the cartoon series "Plato and Pandora". From 2000 to 2001 he collaborated with Mediascriptum (graphic and illustration applications).