Smyrliadis

Σμυρλιάδης Θεόδωρος is a car-body and paint workshop in Marousi. Work arrives by phone and by reputation, not by signage or search.

Every job was tracked in two paper notebooks: a register of customers and vehicles, and a sheet per car with the parts, the work and the price. The brief for everything that followed was to keep that system and make it harder to lose things in, not to replace it with software the shop would have to learn.

The shop had never had a logo. I explored six genuinely different directions, each tested in one colour, because a workshop sign is painted in one colour and an invoice is printed in one.

A written review cut two, kept two as references, and carried forward the Evolution wordmark with the ΣΘ mark as its companion for places where the full name doesn’t fit.

A static site with no framework: Greek at the root, English at /en/, both generated from one data file. It carries the business’s address, opening hours and location as structured data for search, and leads with the phone number, because that’s how work arrives.

Ψηφιακό Τετράδιο, “the digital notebook”: one board of active repairs, a page per car with its parts, work and costs, a list of parts still waiting, and a history. Search works by plate, name or phone. It’s in Greek with an English switch, and installs on a phone like an app.

The owner’s feedback changed it along the way: parts tracking mattered more than repair stages, so stages were played down and the parts list moved up; prices are typed as bare numbers, the way the paper notebook has them.