Papadakis Publisher

Papadakis Publisher Papadakis produce award-winning, high quality, beautiful books on architecture, the decorative arts, fashion, science, nature and natural history.

Papadakis produced award-winning, high quality, beautiful books on architecture, the decorative arts, fashion, science, nature and natural history. Our books are exciting, authoritative and innovative, created by authors who are experts in their fields.

05/06/2026

Details from a forthcoming book…

Each chapter opens with a vintage Indian postcard – birds, elephants, and other fragments of a rich visual heritage that adorn the walls of The Cinnamon Club.

🌶️📕 More soon!
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Super day at with chefs and - and photographer - working on a sumptuous new book 🌶️📕
01/06/2026

Super day at with chefs and - and photographer - working on a sumptuous new book 🌶️📕

We’re delighted to see Seeds – Time Capsules of Life featured so strikingly on the cover Whitefish Review – together wit...
29/05/2026

We’re delighted to see Seeds – Time Capsules of Life featured so strikingly on the cover Whitefish Review – together with a stunning multi-page spread celebrating the extraordinary microscopic worlds of seeds through the lens of artist Rob Kesseler 🌱🔬

Featuring Rob as the issue’s cover artist, the piece explores the intersection of art and science that sits at the heart of Seeds, revealing the astonishing beauty, complexity, and diversity of the natural world through coloured electron microscopy.

Thank you for such a superb feature!

22/04/2026

From the infinitesimal to the cosmic, Papadakis gives each book a universe of its own. Wishing all our readers a happy Earth Day 🌿🌎📚

NASA’s extraordinary new Artemis lunar flyby photographs – a contemporary echo of Earthrise and the Pale Blue Dot legacy...
09/04/2026

NASA’s extraordinary new Artemis lunar flyby photographs – a contemporary echo of Earthrise and the Pale Blue Dot legacy – invite us to see our planet with fresh eyes.

That same shift in perspective sits at the heart of Food Planet Future by Robert Dash: how we nourish ourselves, and how we care for the fragile world that sustains us.
Sometimes it takes distance to see what is most precious.

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🖼️ Slide 1: The Artemis II crew captured this view of Earth setting on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon.
📷 NASA

🖼️ Slide 2: Artemis Era Earthrise, captured through the Orion spacecraft window during the Artemis Il crew’s flyby of the Moon’s far side. Earth appears as a delicate crescent, with only its upper edge illuminated. The planet’s soft blue hue and scattered white cloud systems stand out against the blackness of space, while the lower portion fades into night.
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🖼️ Slide 3: 🌎🌽📗From lunar perspectives to food futures, ‘s front cover of FOOD PLANET FUTURE shows a blueberry and its patterned seed coating – inspired by the William Anders 1968 Earthrise, whose iconic photograph helped launch the environmental movement. “Unlike every other image in this book, this one came together in a flash. As I worked on the blueberry composition, removed the studio background from behind the berry, and added a black background, the idea of berry-as-Earth leapt out.”

🖼️ Slide 4: Earthrise
NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on Dec. 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to witness the sight pictured.
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🖼️ Slide 5: A Room With a View
A view from the window of the Orion spacecraft approximately 9 minutes before Earthset during the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6, 2026.
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🖼️ Slide 6: A New View of the Moon
Earth sets over the Moon’s curved limb, captured by the Artemis Il crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon.
📷 NASA

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe ~ Madeleine ...
04/04/2026

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe ~ Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time 🚀📘✨

Unlike the crew of Artemis II, we are not yet fully fledged space explorers. That said, we do launch ideas – and we launch books.

Our subjects range from the infinitesimally small to the universal, carrying the work and words of our authors out into the world.

📷 From an archive copy of one of our catalogues, featuring a collage from an early edition of 📗 100 Plants That Almost Changed the World by

This is not just any pink 🎨�This is Papadakis Pink – our house (and studio!) colour 🩷Welcome to ✨� a glimpse behind the...
03/04/2026

This is not just any pink 🎨�This is Papadakis Pink – our house (and studio!) colour 🩷

Welcome to ✨� a glimpse behind the curtain at , where books begin, ideas evolve, and the studio comes to life…

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🌿🔬 Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas – now with Princeton University PressWe’re delighted to announce that a ne...
17/03/2026

🌿🔬 Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas – now with Princeton University Press

We’re delighted to announce that a new edition of Sacred Plants of the Americas will be published by this Summer, bringing this remarkable work to an even wider international readership.

Indigenous communities have long revered certain plants and fungi as healers, storytellers, and spirit guides. Sacred Plants of the Americas brings together anthropology, ethnobotany, and mesmerising confocal plant microscopy to reveal the inner lives of more than 50 culturally significant species from across the Americas – a meeting of ancestral knowledge and cutting-edge science, explored with extraordinary depth by authors and Steven F. White

The project was a joy to publish, and it’s wonderful to see it presented in this new edition.

12/03/2026

Goodbye Olympia - it’s the end of an era as moves to Excel next year…

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Last night, on the eve of London Book Fair, I received the ICMA 🥇 GOLD Award for Best Design: Science Books for Microcos...
10/03/2026

Last night, on the eve of London Book Fair, I received the ICMA 🥇 GOLD Award for Best Design: Science Books for Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas.

The International Creative Media Awards, based in Germany and judged by an international panel of publishing and design experts, recognises excellence in bookmaking worldwide.

As with every award, there are so many important people behind each work, and this case is no different: in particular, I had the absolute joy of working with two extraordinary, fascinating, and trusting authors, who were happy for me to develop the design of their book in this particular style.

Before I became publisher, I was an aspiring architect, and later a magazine designer. Book design is one of the aspects of publishing that I love the most - understanding each author’s work, imagining how best to present it across the entire book, balancing each page and spread, creating rhythm, space, and balance, much as in music, as you move through the book across each spread.

I’m over the moon to receive such recognition from an international jury devoted to design excellence, and as such, this award means something on multiple levels. What a wonderful way to start London Book Fair!

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