Marily Papanastasatou





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other islands book fairOrchard Street Jazz FestivalCloseup NYC  play it first Between NotesAbout home
All Comes In WavesMy Sweet Canary
50 Books | 50 Covers




ALBUM ART & OTHER

work for music
illustration
animation









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other islands book fair

The Other Islands Book Fair is an annual event hosted by the Pratt Graduate Communication Design department  and serves as a vital platform for local publishers, community builders, designers, artists, and creatives who share a collective commitment to independent publishing to come together and showcase their work.

The brief asked for a system that embodied this idea structurally: a modular, animated logo as the primary mark, designed so its components could stand alone or reassemble into a unified whole, mirroring the fair’s role as a space where independent publishers, graduate scholars, and underrepresented narratives converge and build community outside the mainstream publishing sector. The identity needed to carry this relational logic across both digital and physical touchpoints, translating an academic and curatorial concept into a visual language flexible enough to hold many forms while staying legibly whole.

CLIENTS

Pratt Institute
Other Islands Book FairROLE

Branding
Logo Design
Event Production DELIVERABLES

Visual Identity
Wayfinding
Production


My proposal draws from literature and symbolism: John Donne's "No man is an island" inspired the theme of interconnectedness and our place within a mutually dependent human system, while the elephant-in-the-boa image from "The Little Prince" informs the visual language, representing boundless creativity and imagination. In an era where human impact on the world is defining, marked by climate uncertainty and political polarization, the work calls for solidarity and understanding of our shared system, using creativity as a force to build new "other islands" that support experimentation, connection, and critical discourse. This identity moves from different directions to coming together, using riso printing to reflect the low-cost, independent spirit of book fair publishing, hand-traced text and frame-by-frame animation to bring a human, handmade quality to the brand, and blurred lines between individuals and the whole to celebrate creative and relational entanglement, all in service of highlighting community building among the fair's diverse exhibitors, independent publishers, and Pratt's Graduate Students.




Orchard Street Jazz Festival

Orchard Street Jazz Festival is a multi-day celebration of contemporary jazz and creative music, running September 30th–October 5th and bringing together some of the genre's most forward-thinking artists for a series of intimate club performances. Organized by Closeup NYC in collaboration with D'Addario, the festival is designed to capture the current pulse of the jazz scene while pushing the music toward what's next. I created the festival's logo, developing a visual identity that reflects the energy and spirit of the lineup and event.

The design draws from the tiled signage found in New York City's subway stops, a visual style that's been part of the city for over a century. These tiles are historic and instantly recognizable, but they're also part of daily life, seen by millions of people passing through the city every day. That combination of history and everyday presence became the starting point for the logo. I created custom type based on the tiled signs, bringing that same sense of NYC history and everyday life into a mark for a festival rooted in the city's jazz legacy.

CLIENTS
Orchard Street Jazz Festival
D’Addario  ROLE
Branding
Logo Design
Event ProductionDELIVERABLES
Logo Design

Closeup NYC        

 As a Designer at Closeup NYC, I led the design and print production of quarterly event calendars featuring nightly lineups, developed motion graphics templates for the announcement of weekly performances on social media, and designed and printed merchandise.
CLIENT
Closeup NYC ROLE
Design & Art Direction 
Production Designer
Risograph Printer

DELIVERABLES
Quarterly Calendars
motion graphics templates
merchandise





MOTION GRAPHICS

Development of Motion graphics templates for the weekly social media post sharing the lineup of musicians performing at the club each week.



MERCHANDISE DESIGN & SCREENPRINTING

Together with the Art Director, I developed the design for the new merchandise line dropped in December 2026. Screenprinted in Brooklyn in December 2026, on blanks from Unbleached Apparel. All shirts are sustainably sourced and made of real unbleached and undyed cotton.


play it first

My graduate thesis investigated the concept of improvisation in design, using jazz as a case study to uncover the conditions that enable or foreclose it. The thesis argues that automation, efficiency-driven workflows, and digital tooling systematically remove the conditions improvisation requires, including physical engagement with materials, tolerance for productive failure, and the slow accumulation of embodied skill. Through analog processes and material-based exercises, the project tests whether these conditions can be deliberately reintroduced into design practice, and what capacities result from doing so, particularly comfort with ambiguity and responsiveness to emergent conditions.

Between Notes

Experimental publication combining material
about 7 of my favourite Blue Note albums.

about home

experimental zine exploring the meaning of home across literture.

all comes in waves

 Newspaper publication exploring the relationship between sound and sea, tracing the shared physics of wave motion from the compressions of air to 
the swells of the open ocean.





my sweet canary
Bringing together archival material, lyrics, and interviews, this project celebrates the Women of Rebetiko, urban music that emerged through the blending of musical traditions carried by Greek refugees from Anatolia with the sounds of local subcultures in the early 20th century. Women were central to the shaping of this music, yet they continue to be pushed to the margins of the scholarship surrounding it, their contributions overshadowed by the male figures more commonly celebrated in the genre's history. Through extensive research into the archives, drawing on primary sources such as recordings, photographs, and firsthand testimonies, this project seeks to recenter their voices and surface the stories, struggles, and artistry of women whose influence on rebetiko has too often gone unrecognized.research publication, 
archival research
book design
book production

50 books | 50 Covers

exhibition design 2026
"50 Books x 50 Covers" was an exhibition commissioned by AIGA. Our group faced the challenge of showcasing 100 beautiful books within the exhibition space in a way that felt intentional rather than overwhelming. We landed on an indexical system that organized the books into a kind of spatial glossary: each book was marked with a numbered sticker from 1 to 100, giving visitors a clear way to navigate the space. On the wall, we displayed details generated from the submitted books, letting people flip through and get a closer sense of each publication's content. We also designed a large plotted drape poster presenting all 100 books as a literal index, and compiled nearly 50 videos of the books being paged through into a looping projection. 


TEAM
Gaia Hwang
Munus Shih
Marily Papanastasatou



album art & design

Collection of album artwork and music posters designed over the past few years.


KASI LAMA
LUCAS ZEGRI ENSEMBLE
2026, GRANADA, SPAIN
RUINS OF A NON-EXISTENT PLACE, 
REBECCA MINTENT AND LUZ GONZÁLEZ 
2026, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
DECEPTIVE LIZARD
BRODIE JARVIE
2026, GLASGOW, UK
REFLECTIONS/SHADOWS
MODERNISTIC
2024-2025, GLASGOW, UK
APOLOGIES (SINGLE)
MODERNISTIC
2024-2025, GLASGOW, UK
BEAT_1 (SINGLE)
MODERNISTIC
2024-2025, GLASGOW, UK
THE WORLD I LIVE IN (ALBUM)
HARBEN KAY
2025, GLASGOW, UK
KORMOS (POSTER) 
TASOS KOFODIMOS & YVONNE MELISSA
2026, ATHENS, GREECE
ENCONTROS (ALBUM)
PAUL HARRISON 
2025, GLASGOW, UK 
MEN IN EXILE (ALBUM)
THODORIS ZIARKAS, PANOS SKOUTERIS, MANOUSOS KLAPAKIS
2024-2025, ATHENS, GREECE
ALL POSSIBLE FUTURES (ALBUM)
SIMON HERBERHOLZ
2023, GLASGOW, UK 
PLAY IT AGAIN (ALBUM)
ROO & NEIL
2025, GLASGOW, UK 
ALKYONI (ALBUM)
STELLA KOUTSELOU
2023, ATHENS, GREECE
MYRRA (POSTER I)
TASOS KOFODIMOS & YVONNE MELISSA
2024, ATHENS, GREECE
DOMMAGE DOMMAGE (POSTER)
IPSO ENSEMBLE
2023, BERN, SWITZERLAND
MYRRA (POSTER I)
TASOS KOFODIMOS & YVONNE MELISSA
2024, ATHENS, GREECE
ALTERRA (ALBUM)
ALTERRA
2024, ATHENS, GREECE

LAYLOW GLASGOW (POSTER 1/60)
2022-2026, GLASGOW, UK
RIVOCS
LAURA GIAVON & MARCO D’ORLANDO
2024, ROME, ITALY
TRANSCENDENCE (POSTER)
SOFIA ROS 
2023, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
THE TREE WE PLANTED IN THE CORNER OF THE GARDEN 
FTERO
2023, ATHENS, GREECE
ERRICHETTA FESTIVAL 2024 (POSTER)
2024, ROME, ITALY
ERRICHETTA FESTIVAL 2023 (POSTER)
2023, ROME, ITALY
MODERNISTIC (POSTER)
2023, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
PLEXOUDES (ALBUM)
THOMAS MELETEAS
2022, ATHENS, GREECE
CHRISSI (SINGLE)
POLIS ENSEMBLE
2020, ATHENS, GREECE

ERRICHETTA FESTIVAL 2022 (POSTER)
2022, ROME, ITALY
ERRICHETTA FESTIVAL 2021 (POSTER)
2021, ROME, ITALY
AZAMIAH (POSTER)
2022, GLASGOW, UK
ESCHER (ALBUM)
2023, GLASGOW, UK
TUSK (ALBUM)
TUSK
2020, ATHENS, GREECE
A PAPER WORLD BURNING (ALBUM)
AZATI
2021, ATHENS, GREECE
KALOPSIA/GRANAZIA
THOMAS MELETEAS & TUSK
2020, ATHENS, GREECE
WELLINGTON STR & THOMAS MELETEAS (POSTER)
2020, ATHENS GREECE
SOMEONE ELSE, SOMEWHERE ELSE (POSTER)
2019, ATHENS GREECE