Costas Voyatzis was born in Piraeus in 1980 and currently lives at Exarchia. Since his early age, he has been developing a strong liking for design and calls himself a gadget freak. Later on, he decided to put a stop in his meteorology studies to follow his passion, design. The global www.yatzer.com first came public in January 2007. When serving the army, Costas conceived the idea of an online design portal while on watch in the early morning hours.
Yatzer.com is a popular and prestigious global online destination on design, architecture, fashion, events and art, receiving an average of 350,000 visitors and 1,200,000 page views on a monthly and global basis. In April 2001, Costas Voyatzis was named one of the 100 most influential people in the design industry by French Architectural Digest.
From 2007 up today, Yatzer has published over 2,000 articles and interviews with significant designers, like Jean Paul Gaultier, the Greek emigrant Australia-based painter Michael Zervos, the CEO of Wallpaper magazine Tony Chambers and many more.
Financial Times ranked www.yatzer.com in the list of the 20 best online sites in the world.
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