To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, the Department of Graphic Design organized a workshop titled “New Faces for This Century” Analogue Collage: Book Jacket Design Exhibition. The creative results of the workshop are on exhibit at the Library Art Gallery until December 25.
The exhibition displays book jackets that were designed by the graphic design students’ using the analogue collages they made at the workshop.
The workshop was led by award-winning designer/artist and Department of Graphic Design graduate Kibele Yarman and lecturers Birsu S. Hoşrik Çeltek and Alper Yıldırım. In the workshop, third- and fourth-year students of the Department of Graphic Design designed original book jackets for fifteen books, selected from those of writers and poets of the Republican period, by creating collages from print materials. The fifteen books included Yaşar Kemal’s “Yılanı Öldürseler,” Nâzım Hikmet’s “Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları,” Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s “Semaver,” Sevgi Soysal’s “Yenişehir’de Bir Öğle Vakti,” Sevim Burak’s “Yanık Saraylar” and Adalet Ağaoğlu’s “Ölmeye Yatmak” as well as many other works that symbolize the literature of the Republican period.
This workshop focussed on creating collages from found print materials that were juxtaposed as book jackets by the attendees and aimed to create a systematic exercise that intersected art and design. The creative processes of the workshop included imagining, sketching, collecting, cutting and adhering, scanning, designing and producing.
