Alexandros Didaskalou, born in Thessaloniki, is an industrial designer. He studied Industrial design at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, in Braunschweig – Germany, where he graduated, at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche I.S.I.A / Disegno Industriale in Rome, and was awarded Masters of Arts/ Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London with Ron Arad. He is also PhD candidate of the architecture department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the topic “Design of products & systems for wheelchair users”.

Since 1998 he works professionally as an industrial designer and has founded his own design office “fortywaves” in Thessaloniki, which expanded to Athens in 2005.

Since 2001 he has been lecturing industrial design and has provided seminars in the furniture design department of the TEI Larissa in Karditsa, at the Applied Arts Studies in Thessaloniki and he is a lecturer of industrial design at AKTO in Athens.

Alexandros is a scientific associate of the Thessaloniki Design Museum and special associate of the furniture magazine “Epipleon”. He has participated in conferences and seminars at Furnidec, at the University of Macedonia, at the Architecture department of AUTH and at the Industries Association of Thessaly. He has also prepared expert report for the district of Pella, approved research proposal for the Archimedes programme and participated in the EU Comfurt programme.

His projects have been displayed at the Salone Satellite – Milan, at the Royal College of Art, at the Biennale Design Saint Etienne, at the Industrie Design Forum Hannover and at the Furnidec.

Alexandros was awarded with the first prize at the Dromeas international competition of office furniture design in 2003, with the first innovation prize at the design competition for woodworking machinery at Hannover Germany and with the first prize at the competition of industrial design for memorabilia and packaging of Pella’s district local products.

Within the framework of his operations with fortywaves, Alexandros has collaborated in projects with a series of companies including: Noesis, Athens 2004, Diageo, Everest Group, Gallis Lighting, Modeco, LAK, municipality of  Panorama, Xyloviotehniki, KATETH technical company, SASTH, OASTH, Polyline, Karra estate, Gerovasileiou estate, Boutari wines, Tsantali wines, Lamaplast, Driade, Reebok, Glass Studio, Neodent, Mototech, Zoumboulakis Architects, EPSA etc.