The story

“Do what you love most. Even if you don’t  see the point right now. Life will give you back if you share love and kindness”

My name is Maria, a definitely dog person, architecture lover,  cooking for friends and (big) family is my favorite part in life, and I am always looking for a re-use/re-purpose in everything! My life motto is «οὐκ ἐν τῷ πολλῷ τὸ εὖ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ πολύ» Αριστοτέλης – “Quality over quantity” Aristotle.

When I am not searching or writing for Greek Products  I am a Greek  designer in interior, graphics and events. I have worked with architects and retail brands in Interior Design, and helped start-up and businesses to build their professional identity and audience. Take a look at my Linkedin profile and contact me if you would like to work for your project, too.

welcome to my blog!

A showcase full with beautiful stories of inspired, creative people!

Probably you have visited Greece before or never before. Maybe you are half Greek living abroad, or somehow you are related with Greece. Excellent! Me too! I am a greek designer recently relocated in the Netherlands and my passion is searching, writing and reviewing Greek Products!

Let me introduce you to the more intriguing face of Greece, the unknown stories of creators, producers, living traditions, new artists and so on. In Greek Products Abroad people unfold their  own stories and you see the authenticity of Greece.

My story

I started blogging about Greek products a few years ago, while in my effort to fight back unemployment I became a correspondent for a Greek -Australian magazine blog. That worked as a kick-start for me to bounce back and focus on the “good news” happening around.  This mindset changed my life completely. 

Two years ago I was fortunate to meet the man of my dreams through my blog. Who knew that sharing on Facebook a video about Crete would bring in my life a beautiful person, we would fall in love and I would move in to another (so flat) country?

I took a gap year to breath in all the changes in my life and to redesign the layout in a more comfortable reading version. 

Today, you can sit back and enjoy reading about  books ( captive sun), artists ( zacharoula) (kolyvas), composer ( zero)(vaggelis stefanopoulos), tradition ( skandalopetra) , cultural journas ( voices of Hellenism), design ( kontaki design), growing family bussines ( Myconian collection) ( hellenic plasterwork), organic (eliris olive oil) (5 extra olive oil), handcrafted ( xylo eyewear), or simple extraordinary stories ( japanese stories, relocating to Athens), unspoiled eateries  (Pezoula) and many more.

The new logo

I would like to describe our logo.

Blue boat: represents the greek stories, valuable to us, that unfold and travel globally through our blog.

Fonts: we use the GFS Artemisia, since our goal is to promote the greek creators, we couldn’t use other than a greek designed font for our logo. For more: [ www.greekfontsociety.gr] The type family GFS Artemisia was designed by the painter-engraver Takis Katsoulidis and reflects his style and typographic acumen. It is largely his effort to offer, from a different perspective, a type face which, like Times Greek, would be applicable to a wide spectrum of uses and equally agreeable and legible. The typeface has been digitised by George D. Matthiopoulos.

I wanted to speak out about them and share the hope that these beautiful stories filled with enthusiasm, inspiration and creativity, can bring.