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ISType (Istanbul Type Seminars), conceived and organized by Onur Yazıcıgil (Sabancı University) and Alessandro Segalini (Izmir University of Economics), is a lecture and workshop series devoted to encouraging typographic literacy in Turkey. The upcoming ISType 2012 will be held between June 15–18 under the theme Transmit and will host international guests including Ellen Lupton and Gerard Unger as well as Turkish designers/academicians such as Esen Karol and Ömer Durmaz. I and Emre will also be speaking as Fevkalade.

P.S. Emre made this amazing opening title for the seminars, don’t miss it.

 

I recently put the outputs of Image of Science 2010 on my website, and I’m happy to announce that the second workshop is happening between July 11–15 in Sabancı University, this time open to outside participation. Image of Science seeks to bring researchers and designers together in order to depict complex research methodologies and findings. This is the formal announcement:

Sabanci University’s interest in supporting research output has been one of the primary initiatives of Image of Science, which will now run its second season July 11–15 on campus.  Image of Science is a university wide collaboration organized by visiting faculty Gokhan Ersan (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Melih Papila (FENS), VAVCD teaching assistants, and Nancy Karabeyoglu (SUWC).

Image of Science seeks to familiarize researchers with design tools that can comprehensively depict complex research methodologies and findings.

This year’s week long program of workshops and design tutorials focuses on creating interactive slide shows and presentations of completed or ongoing research. Two days of workshops on implementing design strategies open the program; three days of design work to produce interactive slide shows/presentation of selected submissions follow. All are welcome.

If you have a visual image of a particular ongoing/completed research project and/or would like to learn more of design’s ability to serve as a powerful information source, please consider attending either the workshops or design production; both are free.

The links below are the formal invitation to Image of Science.

Website

http://iscience.sabanciuniv.edu

Registration/Submissions

http://iscience.sabanciuniv.edu/workshop-apply/apply-ws2.html

Pages containing the work of last year’s projects

http://iscience.sabanciuniv.edu/projects/projects-emrah-p1-intro.html

The Gotham epidemic has long hit Istanbul, and this is probably the best example to document it.

I’m sure the people at the Communist Party of Turkey would feel a little uncomfortable had they been told that the typeface that they use on their posters is strongly American, spawned from the letterings in New York City to celebrate the American vernacular, and used by Barack Obama so consistently – in his campaign (below) and in Office – that it is known as the “Obama font” by laypeople.

Well, at least they agree on the “change” part of it.

I and Onur Yazıcıgil (with the help of Emre Parlak) made a series of posters for promoting ISEA2011 Istanbul at SIGGRAPH 2010. Click here to see the whole series.

The man who threw this pick to me last night was my hero throughout my teens. It’s funny how this small plastic object can still mean this much to me. It’s even condescending. I won’t try to explain the feeling, but I know this will be enough for some people: the man who threw this pick was James Alan Hetfield.