Greek graphic designer and illustrator Yorgos Papadoyiannakis brings a childhood memory of the Cretan grape harvest to risograph, printing a geometric, fluorescent limited edition on paper made in part from grape residues.
Every harvest, the crates stack up. One on top of another, forming temporary structures that grow as the picking progresses, then disappear when the season ends. For Yorgos Papadoyiannakis, who has experienced the annual grape harvest in the village of Agia Pelagia in Rethymno, Crete with his family since childhood, that image of repetitive stacking stayed with him. KAFASIA, his risoprint, makes it permanent
The illustration is built entirely from fundamental geometric elements: lines, circles and squares assembled into a modular composition that suggests an infinite upward pattern. The crates stack as they do in the vineyard, building a structure that feels like it could continue beyond the edges of the paper. Geometry and repetition carry both the labour of the harvest and its continuity, the annual return to the same ritual, the same shapes, the same hands.
Fluorescent colours were chosen deliberately to capture the vibrancy and energy of the scene, and risograph was the natural medium to realise that choice fully. The grain and intensity that Riso brings to fluorescent ink is something no other print process replicates, and the printing, handled by Keda Press, pulls every volt of colour from the palette. The paper extends the concept further still: Crush Grape 120 gsm, a recycled stock made in part from grape residues, connects the material of the print to the subject it depicts. The choice feels precise rather than symbolic.
The edition is limited to 106 copies on A3, each numbered and signed. That number, 106, is its own quiet specificity, the kind of edition size that speaks to a particular harvest rather than a round figure.
Yorgos Papadoyiannakis is a Greek graphic designer and illustrator who graduated in Graphic Arts Technology from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. His practice moves across illustration and typography, shaped by an early career in screen printing and a lasting commitment to work that lives on paper and carries the texture and presence of print.
KAFASIA / Grape Crates. Risograph print on Crush Grape 120gsm paper, A3. Limited edition of 106, numbered and signed. Printed by Keda Press. Illustration: Yorgos Papadoyiannakis. Photography: Giorgos Damanakis. Photo editing: Christos Lianopoulos. Location: Damanakis family vineyard, Agia Pelagia, Rethymno, Crete.
