Niki Sioki

Caponeu Team Member

Niki Sioki, PhD, specialises in graphic design and printing history. Her research explores the history of graphic design in Greece, the role of book design in the history of books and in contemporary publishing practices, and the history of printing and print culture in colonial Cyprus. With nearly two decades of experience in the Greek academic and medical publishing sector, she is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Multimedia at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Niki participates as a researcher in the CAPONEU project team in Cyprus, where she will contribute text portraits, presentations at conferences and will participate in the activities of the various working groups.

Latest publications

M.C. Dyson, N. Sioki, M. Waldeck, 2025, “Some influences on legibility: who or what has changed notions of legibility through time?”. In Walker, S., Ross, F., Singh,V., Triggs, T., Sharin, A. and Luna, P. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography, Bloomsbury [in press].
N. Sioki, 2024, “Posters of Cyprus: promoting the colony during the inter-war period”. In Hadjiathanasiou, M., Karyos, A. & Solomou, E. A. (eds.) Colonial Cyprus: A Cultural History, London: Bloomsbury.
N. Sioki, 2019, The postwar schoolbook as a material artefact. Two Greek reading textbooks from 1944, Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 11(1).
N. Sioki, 2019, Neighbours on paper: A contribution to the history of multiscript printing in colonial Cyprus, The Cyprus Review, 31(1).
K. Mastoridis, N. Sioki, M. C. Dyson (eds.) (2019) Design for visual communication: Challenges and priorities, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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