About - Yianni Kouros

Yianni Kouros is a Melbourne based, branding & communication designer. He works clients who are passionate about making the right decisions for their communities.

While he shares his name with a legendary ultramarathon runner, this Yianni struggles to complete a 5km jog. But boy, does he try.

Yianni Kouros is a Melbourne based, branding & communication designer. He works with amazing, responsive clients who are passionate about making the right decisions for their communities.

While he shares his name with a legendary ultramarathon runner, this Yianni struggles to complete a 5km jog. But boy, does he try.

That's enough talking in the third person.

What His Clients Have To Say

"Yianni understands our brand and produces beautiful design that we’re extremely proud to present to our stakeholders.

He takes on all work with enthusiasm, is eager to find creative solutions, and helps us achieve great outcomes for our business through his thoughtful communication and design craftsmanship.

I wouldn’t hesitate recommending his services to anyone. We love working with Yianni.

Sarah Crowder - Adelaide Airport
Retail Marketing & Events Manager

"Yianni helped me leverage my IP and become incredibly easy to buy.

Our gorgeous branding ensures we stand out from our competition, and our laser-focused positioning helps us only attract the customers we want.

Through his brand strategy process, we now have a clear understanding of our ideal customers and exactly what we need to do to satisfy them. As a team, we spend less time and money on what ‘might’ work, and more on what we know will work.

The quality and quantity of incoming leads is significantly higher. Thanks to the new website, more often than not, customers are ‘sold’ before even talking to us."

Jaquie Scammell - ServiceQ
Founder/CEO

"Yianni has a great ability to know what works and to guide my thinking about how to communicate complicated ideas to my clients in a clean and simple way.

I have been working with Yianni for over 12 months on the design of several collaterals for my training business, including the artwork and images for my book: Urgent!, published by Wiley.

He is easy to work with, and always ready to have robust conversations about what serves the work best. He provides a different perspective, and is able to execute quickly and deliver high quality design.

I would not hesitate recommending his services to anyone."

Dermot Crowely - Adapt Productivity
Director & Founder

"Absolutely love working with you!

You have such a calm and quietly confident demeanour which is exactly the type of energy we need in our team!"

Dani Bartolini - Rock Up Group
Owner

"Yianni is a pleasure to work with for two reasons.

Firstly, he is a pleasure to have around the office. Secondly, his execution is top drawer. And when your feedback may be taking things off course, Yianni has the ability to steer you in the right direction."

Sam Moore - LIFX
Global Marketing Director

A Little About Yianni

Born in Melbourne in the spring of '91, but grew up in Adelaide.

After high school, I studied architecture (well... attempted to) for two years before finding my strength in graphic design. I moved back to Melbourne in 2012 to pursue this and graduated from Swinburne University in late 2014 with a Bachelor of Communication Design.

In January 2015 jumped at an opportunity to work in the family business (airport retailer, awpl) as the sole graphic designer. We grew from a one designer (me) to a team of four. We had the chance to brand stores around Australia and New Zealand's airports, work on many major pitches, and help to implement a company culture program. It was a constant pleasure to be a part of this team.

From early 2018, I decided to have a crack at going solo - starting the next phase of my career as an independent brand and communication designer. I've worked with thought leaders and small business owners on strategy driven branding and everything that comes with it, plus a few larger entities in a hands-on design role.

After high school, I studied architecture (well... attempted to) for two years before finding my strength in graphic design. I moved back to Melbourne in 2012 to pursue this and graduated from Swinburne University in late 2014 with a Bachelor of Communication Design.

In January 2015 jumped at an opportunity to work in the family business (airport retailer, awpl) as the sole graphic designer. We grew from a one designer (me) to a team of four. We had the chance to brand stores around Australia and New Zealand's airports, work on many major pitches, and help to implement a company culture program. It was a constant pleasure to be a part of this team.

From early 2018, I decided to have a crack at going solo - starting the next phase of my career as an independent brand and communication designer. I've worked with thought leaders and small business owners on strategy driven branding and everything that comes with it, plus a few larger entities in a hands-on design role.

After high school, I studied architecture (well... attempted to) for two years before finding my strength in graphic design. I moved back to Melbourne in 2012 to pursue this and graduated from Swinburne University in late 2014 with a Bachelor of Communication Design.

In January 2015 jumped at an opportunity to work in the family business (airport retailer, awpl) as the sole graphic designer. We grew from a one designer (me) to a team of four. We had the chance to brand stores around Australia and New Zealand's airports, work on many major pitches, and help to implement a company culture program. It was a constant pleasure to be a part of this team.

From early 2018, I decided to have a crack at going solo - starting the next phase of my career as an independent brand and communication designer. I've worked with thought leaders and small business owners on strategy driven branding and everything that comes with it, plus a few larger entities in a hands-on design role.

In 2020, a little something happened which freed up my work schedule a tad. This gave presented the opportunity to create RUGGLI - an outlet for me to produce art under the guise of a rug company (that doesn't make rugs) for our illustrious founder (that doesn't exist). A highlight was being featured in Print Mag as Brand of the Day.

Outside of work you'll find me with a mixture of my partner, kiddo, family and mates, playing shortish single-player videogames, watching Liverpool at 5am, or catching the latest docos or films.