Katerina Papanagiotou
- Creative director
- Greece
- Member since 2022
Katerina Papanagiotou is a founding member and Creative Director of MNP Athens.
She studied at the Department of Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the University of West Attica in Athens.
From 1997 to 2003 she was a member of an established creative studios in Athens.
In 2003, she co-founded creative studio MNP Athens. MNP has won four times the highest distinction in the Greek Graphic Design, and other awards in international design competitions (European Design Awards, TDC, Awwwards).
The studio has collaborated, among others, with the International Museum of Contemporary Art Athens EMΣΤ, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, National Theatre of Greece, Acropolis Museum, Piraeus Bank, Goethe Institute Athen, and more.
MNP is also a publisher, under the name MNP Editions, with five books already to its portfolio.
Lastly, she teaches Visual Communication at the undergraduate level & supervises student thesis at the Visual Communication MA at Vakalo Art and Design College.
Awards—
2023 TDC NY Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2022 TDC NY Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2022 Εrmis Award 2021 Awwwards
2019 GRAND EVGE (Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards)
2018 EUROPEAN DESIGN AWARDS
2017 GRAND Εrmis, Εrmis Award
2014 GRAND EVGE (Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards)
2011 GRAND EVGE (Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards)
2009 GRAND EVGE (Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards)
Exhibitions—
2023 “NOON The World’s Best Typography, 8 global TDC69 exhibitions.
2022 Part of the permanent poster exhibition Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
2011 Budapest, The Colours of Europe in Objects
Lectures—
Athens, 2022 Vakalo Art and Design College “Flags”
Athens, 2019 Design Athens “International Thessaloniki Film Festival Identity”
Nicosia, 2018 Cyprus association of graphic designers and illustrations “The charm and frustration of implementation”
Athens, 2018 Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the University of West Attica
Athens, 2016 EDEx, “Flow and Design”
Athens, 2012 Pecha Kucha, Museum of Cycladic art. “Culture and design”
Hydra, 2011 Ministry of tourism. “Design and tourism”
Athens, 2010 Design Athens “National theatre of Greece Identity”
Athens, 2009 Union of Graphic Designers of Greece “National theatre of Greece Identity”
Publications—
2023 The Greek Foundation VOL 2, Athens
2021 The Greek Foundation Interview, Athens
2017 Slanted Blog Magazine, Berlin
2010 Eye magazine Interview, London
2009 +Design Magazine, Athens
2009 VIMA newspaper “VIMA IDEAS”, Athens
2008 Exhibition Catalogue, Idpure, Annual, Swiss
2007 Bis Publishers Just Labels, Amsterdam
Teaching—
2005-2023 VAKALO Art & Design College S.A teaching Visual Identity BA
2019-2023 VAKALO Art & Design College S.A teaching Master of Arts.
2019 Workshop in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Athen for the the
Bauhaus 100 years anniversary.
Participation—
2020 “A Window To The World”
Part of A Window to the World short film by Kessels Kramer and Efthimis Filippou in collaboration with 63 creatives from around the world.
www.awindowtothe.world
Contact Katerina.
