Yannis Konstantinidis
Yannis Konstantinidis is a director, creative director, and co-founder of NOMINT, the Emmy-winning creative studio now celebrating its 20th year. From its beginning as an experimental architecture studio, NOMINT has evolved into one of the world’s leading names in advertising, known for its moonshot ideas.
He was recently presented with the Art Directors Club’s Paul Manship Medal, a lifetime honour given to people whose work points the advertising and design industries forward.
His keynote talk – Outrageous Effort – argues that AI has made quality free, and therefore worthless as a signal, and that visible, unfakeable human effort is becoming the last real marker of value. It is a talk delivered from inside the practice rather than the sidelines, built for corporate, brand, leadership and creative audiences navigating what AI means for the worth of their work.
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Yannis Konstantinidis initially trained as an architect at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture and studied theatre at Central Saint Martins.
His films for WWF, made with real ice, fire, and smoke, and thermal cameras, have become a case study in animation where the process is inseparable from the message. Recent work includes the stop-motion opener for the 2026 Winter Olympics on BBC, which drew the broadcaster’s largest-ever audience for the Games.
Yannis Konstantinidis | Signature Keynote
Outrageous Effort: AI has made the old signals of value free, and therefore worthless as a signal. Yannis argues that visible, unfakeable human effort is becoming the last real marker of value, and shows what that means for anyone who communicates products, services, and ideas.
Yannis Konstantinidis | Speaking Topics
Creativity and AI
– The Age of Outrageous Effort: Why visible human effort is the last real signal of value
– The Role of Humans in an AI World: Where to invest effort when machines can do the rest
– What Audiences Need: The growing relevance of care signals
Climate and Communication
– Making the Invisible Visible: Communicating the climate crisis to fatigued audiences
– Purpose Without Preaching: Cause-driven work that people actually feel
Yannis Konstantinidis | Clients and Past Events
– European Design Conference: Keynote Outrageous Effort
– Typocircle with BBC Creative’s Jess Oudot: Keynote Trails Will Blaze
– BBC Winter Olympics – The Future of Advertising: Panel
– Shots Out of the Box: Keynote How the F*k Did He Do That?
– Cannes Lions Festival: Keynote Animation as a Universal Language For Change
– The Future of Advertising: Panel
– BBC, Coca Cola, Danone, Fallon, Google, Mars, Meta, Nestle, NFL, Ribena, Virgin, and WWF
Yannis Konstantinidis | Awards and Accolades
– 2x Yellow Pencils D&AD
– 2x Grand Prix Ciclope
– 2x Grand Prix Clios
– Best of Non-Profit ADC
– 4x Gold OneShow
– 10x Gold ADC
– 5x Gold CLIOS
– 2x AICP
– 2x Gold British Arrows
– 13x Creative Circle Awards
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