2024 Yerel Seçimi: Nasıl Görselleştirmeli?
Seçim sonuçlarının haritalarda illerin kazanan partinin rengine boyanmasıyla görselleştirilmesine alıştık. Niyetimiz sadece kazanan partiyi görmek ise bu…
Visualizing the Genealogy of Ottoman Naskh Types
My friend Onur Yazıcıgil is a researcher of Ottoman typefaces and we had worked on a visualization…
The Art of Insight
Alberto Cairo is an eminent figure in information design, as a practitioner, educator, and author. I’ve always…
History of Philosophy: Portraits, Name-Clicking, and More
This is an important moment and an important post for me. It’s not about the new philosophers…
Gold Water: Landscapes of Olive and Olive Oil
A collaboration between the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial and e-flux Architecture, the Critical Cooking Show is a…
My 2008–2018 in Music
When the 10 Year Challenge hit social media last month, I challenged myself to do a datafied…
Communicating Science: Gráphagos
On July 2nd, we led a variant of our Communicating Science events, this time as part of…
How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without a Soul
Review of How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy I admit, I…
Grafik Anket: Logoları Nasıl Hatırlıyoruz?
4,5 yıl boyunca yavaş yavaş ve sinsice yürüttüğüm bir kişisel araştırma-eğlenme projesi olan Grafik Anket (Graphic Survey)…
Speak to the Eyes – Panel
I was invited to join a panel on the history of data/information visualization in Turkey with Eray…
Measure of Justice: Covering the Cerîde-i Adliye Covers
The research exhibition “Speak to the Eyes: Visualizing Information from the Ottoman Era to the Republic” …
Adaletin Ölçüsü: Cerîde-i Adliye Kapaklarını Yorumlamak
Ömer Durmaz’ın küratörlüğünü yaptığı “Gözlere Konuşmak: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Bilginin Görselleştirilmesi” …
Gráphagos: Memetik Evrim Grafik Tasarımı Açıklar mı?
2010’da yarattığım evrimsel grafik tasarım programı Gráphagos hakkında ilk Türkçe yazımı Manifold için yazdım. Yazıda programın ayrıntılarından…
Redefining Infographics
Do you like infographics? Your answer doesn’t tell much because we’ve been using that word for very…
2015 Genel Seçiminin İletişim Yönergeleri
Kurumlar dış dünyayla ve çalışanlarıyla sözlü/yazılı/görsel iletişimlerini, iletişim stratejistleri ve görsel iletişim tasarımcıları tarafından belirlenmiş kurallar dahilinde…
Evolutionary Graphic Design: Gráphagos
I’m finally publishing the evolutionary graphic design program that I created in 2008–2010 as my master’s thesis…
Argument against Argument from Design
When confronted with the Argument from Design (about biology), people resort to various counter-arguments, pointing to the…
The Trouble With Text
People don’t like texts. Forget reading, they don’t want to look at them. Or so think amateur…
Visualizing Protein Motions with Static Images
In 2011 I worked with Canan Atılgan and Ali Rana Atılgan on the figures of their paper…
The Information is Beautiful Awards
I was at the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards ceremony & party at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in…
Cinemicroscopy
In my last microscopy post with the yellow sac spider, I had noted the resemblance between the…
After ISType 2012
ISType (Istanbul Type Seminars) 2012 is over and here are my notes about it. Right at the…
ISType 2012
As Fevkalade we were invited to speak at Istanbul Type Seminars 2012. Unfortunately Fevkalade’s co-founder Emre couldn’t be there with me…
Zeros and Universes
What do you think if you notice that all the zeros in the book you’re reading have…
The Big Picture in Seven Scales
See the full size and Turkish versions here. After publishing this, quite a lot of people have…
