News between 2020 and 2024.
Last update: 16.11.2024

2024 → BOOK CHAPTER

Great news! The book Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon, which includes our article co-authored with Ömer Durmaz on Gülümser Aral Üretmen, one of Turkey's pioneering women graphic designers, is now available for pre-order. The book, edited by Elizabeth Resnick, will be published in July 2025.

2024 → BIENNIAL

My posters for the exhibition ‘In Pieces’ and the 130th anniversary of Varvara Stepanova have been selected for the 16th Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design, which received more than 20,000 entries from 55 countries. The ‘Global Poster Language’ exhibition was held at the State Tretyakov Gallery between 5–25 September, 2024. The ‘Stepanova 130’ exhibition was held at the Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery in Moscow, Russia between September 26–October 24, 2024

2024 → EXHIBITION, FEATURED PUBLICATION

My work has been selected in the International Ex-libris Competition 'Ex-libris for Peace' within the FISAE Ex-libris Congress, which held for the fortieth time this year in Palma, Spain between 1 and 6 October 2024, and published in the congress catalogue. Take a look my exlibris.

2024 → BIENNIAL

My poster on corruption has been selected for the Luga Poster Biennale organised by the Polytechnic University of Porto. The exhibition was held between September 27–October 31, 2024 at the Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design in Vila do Conde, Porto.

2024 → TRIENNIAL

My poster about the future was selected and exhibited at the 12th International Eco-Poster Triennial 4th Block in Ukraine.

2024 → TALKS

In the 112th episode of Bursa Tahtakale Buluşmaları, I talked about the sign painters of Bursa.

2023 → FEATURED PUBLICATION

The 39th issue of Projector, published by HSE University in St. Petersburg since 2007 and edited by Mitya Kharshak, featured Turkish graphic designers, including myself. The magazine, which prepared in cooperation with Sabancı University, was launched on 13 September 2023 at Minerva Han in Karaköy, Istanbul.

2023 → FEATURED PUBLICATION

A selection of photographs, taken by Ali Yıldırım and myself of sign painting in Sakarya, Turkey was published in the June issue of Manifold. As part of Ali's master thesis entitled 'Vernacular Typography in Visual Communication Design: The Case of Sakarya', which I supervised, he had photographed the sign paintings and created an online map showing the geographical location of sign paintings containing vernacular letterforms.

2023 → ARTICLE

In the Turkish city of Sakarya, the signature of sign painter Enver Yücebalkan can still be glimpsed on signs produced across his career of more than 50 years. In the third issue of BLAG (Better Letters Magazine), I wrote the story of a man whose work made a major visual impression on the city. Read the story.

2022 → EXHIBITION

My exlibris' were selected and exhibited at the 13th International Competition for Ex Libris from 18 November 2022 to 5 January 2023 at the Municipal Public Library in Gliwice, Poland.

2022 → EXHIBITION, FEATURED PUBLICATION

My exlibris was exhibited at the 5th International Ex-libris Competition, organised by Istanbul Exlibris Museum, between 15 November and 15 December 2022 in Istanbul. It was selected from 1179 different works by 452 artists from 36 countries, and published in the competition catalogue. Take a look at my exlibris.

2022 → SEMINAR, WORKSHOP

I was in Eskişehir for a seminar and workshop in the 14th International Anatolian Calligraphy and Typography Event organised by the Graphic Arts Department of Anadolu University between 7 and 11 November 2022. In my seminar, I talked about the vernacular typography, my research to document sign painting in Turkey, and my findings related to sign painters in Bursa and Sakarya. In the workshop, we were made new letterings are carried out based on the vernacular letterforms on signs in Eskişehir, which were photographed by the participants.

2021 → AWARD

My exlibris was awarded Honorable Mention in the International ‘Dervish’ Yunus Emre Exlibris Competition organised by Necmettin Erbakan University in Türkiye.

2020 → AWARD

My exlibris, awarded Honorable Mention, was exhibited within the The International Ex-libris Competition’s Exhibition, organised in collaboration with Eastern Mediterranean University and Silesia University, from 22 January to 11 March 2020 at Gallery 36.6 in Poland. Take a look my exlibris.

2020 → EXHIBITION

My solo exhibition including the selected exlibris and mini-print works, was held between 3 and 15 November 2020 at Gallery N in the Turkish city of Bursa.

2020 → BIENNIAL, FEATURED PUBLICATION

My poster on the 1st of May was selected from 11.396 posters from 84 countries, and exhibited at the Ecuador Poster Biennial in 2020.