Natassa Pappa

A Magazine Reading into Cities, is a pocket-sized collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic snapshots, seen through the eyes of people who write the stories of today’s cities. Every issue could be seen as a city guide which reflects upon the representations of the urban experience. A collection of postcards depicting distant theres – unvisited or perhaps unforgettable; of projections of possible homes, streets yet to be discovered and urban clichés to be demystified. 

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und. Athens is an art-guide that seeks to map, record and promote the alternative art scene of Athens today. Focusing on contemporary art by young and emerging artists based in the city, this independent double publication offers a comprehensive directory of artist-run spaces, artist studios, galleries, museums and institutions in Athens, presented alongside local insights about each neighbourhood, where to eat and which streets are worth exploring.

A design workshop on the holistic process of designing a book. Questions on how can a graphic designer undertake a publication from scratch, raised discussions about content production, editing, design and production. At the end the participants through urban exploration methods and creative writing, produced their own content and gave form to it in InDesign. All wanderings are bound in one publication, for each student to take home.

Into Stoas is an ongoing research project emerged from the mapping of the passage exits located in the commercial triangle of Athens. Natassa Pappa, graphic designer and author of the city guide Into Stoas – Athens Walkthrough, connects the exits by following the old often overlooked exit signs and takes you on a trip through the most interesting passageways in the heart of Athens. 

Α design research project investigating new approaches for multilingual neighborhoods of todays cities. This initiative aims to research and question “how communication could be facilitated” from the graphic design perspective, and bring into public dialogue issues related to multilingual neighborhoods and different cultures that co-exist in the contemporary public space, through multidisciplinary collaborations.

An ongoing research project based on the mapping of the passageway exits located in the commercial triangle of Athens, a chaotic district ideal for inquisitive strolls. This project has a dual goal. Firstly, to promote walking by revealing an alternative walking network in the heart of Athens, when secondly to preserve the images of the vernacular exit signs which constitute a part of the unarchived greek design history.

The Depression Era collective was founded in 2011 in order to articulate a common discourse and take a stance against the extreme social, economical and political transformations of the past few years. The logo is designed just by using a neutral typeface torn upside down and dynamically highlighted by a handwritten circle, to project the social status of the crisis. The exhibition's identity uses also only this basic set of elements, when the catalogue's layout communicates the fluid situation of the crisis and the gaps left for destruction or creativity.

Participants were invited to explore the experiential dimension of space and the limits of communication in public space. They walked in pairs in the surrounding streets of the Galllery of Merchants, using only the sense of hearing. Upon return to The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, they were free to visualize what they heard with the medium of their choice (creative writing, typography, drawings, etc.). This zine collects all the artworks and it binds them with a cover of notations inspired by the heard lines, silkscreened on the spot

Ηow can a graphic designer regenerate an abandoned urban space? This is what Graphic Design seniors of the Athens University of Applied Sciences had to answer in a 2-month workshop. The students formulated arguments through visual essays and proposed design solutions in the form of posters. The results were exhibited for a few hours at the University’s public corridor, a space that haden't used before to showcase students work, but only to promote commercial and political content.

This city quide is about experiencing the actual city with all its surprises from a personal point of view, and not about experiencing the map as interface between two already fixed or suggested points. The app generates walks in any city, based on a drawing made by the user and the given geographical grid. Vagabond is an alternative to how one navigates a city, not simply following the city's physical structure, but its subjective hidden layer.