Influenced heavily by street graphics and pop culture, George Georgiou began designing flyers, banners, and dance floors in his spare time for a variety of warehouse parties and clubs, back in ‘85. He designed enough wall banners to cover a football field.

An interior designer by day he worked for numerous design agencies honing his skills in various sectors of interior design, including restaurant, retail, exhibition, and residential design.

In parallel to his ‘day job’ he produced dozens of flyers, logos, invitations, membership cards, and other ephemera for club nights such as RAW and Special Branch.

When asked by Danny Rampling to include it on the first ‘Shoom’ flyer, his interpretation of the ‘smiley’ face was to become iconic and the image became synonymous with the Acid House scene.

The highlight of his career at this point was in ’89, performing onstage at ‘Sin’ with ‘Beat’s Working’ - the Acid House band formed with Nicky Holloway and Doug Gordon. He designed the stage set, the flyers for the club, the banners on the walls, and the t-shirts worn by many of the audience.

George went on to design ‘The Milk Bar’ and ‘Velvet Underground’ nightclubs for Nicky Holloway in the 90s and continued designing flyers for a new generation of clubbers into the millennium.

His work was recently on display at the V&A in Dundee as part of the ‘Night Fever – Designing Club Culture, 1960-Today’ exhibition.

Today he continues to create restaurants, bars, shops, exhibition stands, book covers, and the occasional flyer.