Famous Turkish Graphic Designers [Turkish Graphic Artists].

İhap Hulusi Görey

İhap Hulusi Görey (28 November 1898, Cairo - 27 March 1986, Istanbul), Turkish graphic designer, illustrator. Görey is the founder of Turkish graphic art and one of the first major names in advertising. His best-known works are the designs he created for Turkish brands. He created the corporate identity of many state institutions and, while doing so, contributed to the formation of the visual identity of the newly founded Republic of Turkey. Ender Merter's Publications About İhap Hulusi Many of İhap Hulusi's personal belongings, from his hat to his watch, his inkstands and his sketches, were collected by a collector named Ender Merter. The publications by Ender Merter about İhap Hulusi are as follows:

• Müsellesten Üçgene, (1998)
• The Man Who Postered the Republic in Its 80th Year, (2003)
• Journey to the World of Drawing, (2005)
• İhap Hulusi: Portrait of the Designer as a Young Artist, (2007)
• The Man Who Postered the Republic at 110 Years Old, 2nd ed. (2008)
• A Love Adventure Turkish-German, (2008)

Sait Maden

Sait Maden (b. 3 May 1931, Çorum - d. 19 June 2013, Istanbul) Turkish poet, translator, publisher, painter, photographer and graphic designer. In some sources his date of birth is given as 1932. Sait Maden, who was born on 3 May 1931 in Çorum, completed his primary and secondary education in Çorum. He started writing poetry at the age of 13, and at the age of 18 he was making translations from French. His passion for poetry and painting brought him to Istanbul. Between 1949 and 1955, he graduated from the "Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu Studio" of the Painting Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. He won first prize in the Varlık magazine's competition with his translation of Charles Baudelaire's "Moesta et Errabunda". He learned Spanish in order to be able to translate Federico García Lorca directly from his own language. He translated Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil", all of Lorca's poems, and some poems by Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, Octavio Paz, Vladimir Mayakovski, Paul Éluard and Saint-John Perse. Maden's poems were published in important magazines such as "İstanbul", "Türkçe", "Soyut", "Yazko Edebiyat", "Varlık" and "Gösteri". Several generations got to know world poets through his translations. The poet Haydar Ergülen called him "A poetry dervish" [3]. In the 1950s his interest in graphic arts began to grow. Between 1955-1960, he designed and drew theatre sets and cinema posters. After 1960, he focused his interest entirely on graphics. He set a record in this field by drawing 8 thousand book and magazine covers. Some of the fonts he used in his books were also of his own design. Maden, who also designed around 500 logos, brochures, packagings and labels, designed election posters for political parties as well. He worked as a journalist between 1958-1963. He set up his own studio in 1964. He was also one of the founders of the "Graphic Artists Association", which started operating in 1968. For a while, he served as the president of this association. He was unable to complete the comprehensive book project titled "Turkish Graphic Art from Its Beginnings to the Present", which he started in 1979, because he could not find a sponsor. However, he managed to publish the first part of this book in "Çevre" magazine. Another part of the book related to the 19th century was also published in "Grafik Sanatı" magazine. Sait Maden collected his logo designs in a book titled "Symbols" in 1990. His wife Ayten Maden is a writer and illustrator of children's books. Sait Maden lost his life on Wednesday 19 June 2013 at 9:00 a.m. due to pneumonia developed after the coronary artery bypass surgery performed at Altunizade Başkent Hospital on 10 May 2013. Maden's funeral was held on Friday 21 June at the Şakirin Mosque in Üsküdar, after the noon prayer, and he was buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery.  

Yurdaer Altıntaş

Yurdaer Altıntaş is an internationally renowned Turkish graphic designer who has produced art posters, especially for theatre and cinema. Yurdaer Altıntaş was born in 1935 in Kars. His mother comes from a family that emigrated to Turkey from Krakow, Poland, and his father is the son of Şeyh Cemil Efendi from Bursa, of Cretan origin. During his childhood years spent in various Anatolian cities such as Tokat, Sivas, Malatya, Erzurum and Gelibolu, he had the opportunity to get to know Anatolian culture. In the first year of high school he took the entrance exams for the Academy of Fine Arts and was accepted, and started receiving an art education. In 1952, he continued his education at the Department of Decorative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the Poster studios. Altıntaş started working professionally in his final year of higher education. He graduated from the higher division of the Poster Studio in 1957, and after a brief six-month advertising agency experience, he chose to work independently. Achievements His first solo exhibition, which he opened in 1964 at the Turkish German Cultural Centre, is the first graphic design exhibition held in Turkey. In 1965, when his works were published in the Gebrauchsgraphik magazine, which was published in Germany, he became the first Turkish graphic designer to have his works featured in a foreign publication. Starting from the second half of the 1960s, his works were accepted to numerous graphic design events held abroad. He took initiatives to ensure the recognition of Turkish graphic design abroad. In 1968, he led the establishment of the Graphic Artists' Association. His Nasreddin Hodja illustrations were published as a book in England in 1974. From his role as an instructor at the İDGSA Higher School of Applied Industrial Arts (UESYO) in 1976, until his retirement from the Graphic Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Mimar Sinan University in 2002, he held different roles in the field of graphic design education. From 1987 to 1993, he served as the president of the Graphic Designers' Professional Organisation. In 1996, he organised an internationally invited poster exhibition for his 60th birthday. The works of Altıntaş, who continues to produce in the field of graphic design, are featured in various museums and archives in the world. In 2011, his sixty years of work were exhibited at the 21st International Istanbul Art Fair, and the Artist Honour Award was given to Altıntaş.  

Tevfik Fikret Uçar

Prof. Dr. Tevfik Fikret Uçar (Born 28 January 1966), is a full-time professor at the Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Anadolu University. He also serves as a design consultant for the books of Anadolu University Distance Learning.                            

Nilgün İrmikçi

Nilgün İrmikçi, (b. 1954 Gaziantep d. 2007 Istanbul) Turkish Painter, Graphic Designer. She graduated in 1971 from the Painting Seminar of the Istanbul Primary Teachers' School. She worked as a primary school teacher for four years. She passed the entrance exam in 1975 and graduated in 1979 from the State School of Applied Fine Arts (Faculty of Fine Arts, Marmara University). She took part in the graphics, page layout and proofreading team in the preparation of the Encyclopedia of the History of Reforms. Between 01-11 March 2005 at the Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum, in the "National Studio, First Step to the National Gallery" Ankara Exhibition of 250 painters and sculptors which included works by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Devrim Erbil, Eren Eyüboğlu, Faruk Cimok, Fikret Otyam, Mehmet Güleryüz and the sculptor Zühtü Müridoğlu, she joined the "Mobilisation Artists". The artist, who showed a tendency for figurative abstraction in both watercolour and oil painting works, was identified with "The Language of Bodies". The Artist, whose works are in the Kabakçı collection, died on 19 July 2007 in Istanbul.  

Hasip Pektaş

Hasip Pektaş (b. 20 March 1953, Ermenek, Karaman) Turkish Faculty Member, Ex Libris Artist, Visual Communication Designer. He graduated from Akşehir Primary Teachers' School in 1971, and from the Painting Department of the Gazi Education Institute in 1974. Until 1982, he worked as a painting teacher at Teachers' Schools and in Secondary Education. Between 1982-1987, he worked at the Graphic Major of the Painting Department, Faculty of Education, Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University. Between 1987-2007, he worked as a faculty member at the Graphic Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Hacettepe University. He became Associate Professor in 1995 and Professor in 2001. Between 2001-2003, he served as Vice Dean at HÜ GSF, and between 2003-2006 as Dean of HÜ GSF. Between 2005-2007, he served as Founding Director of the Hacettepe Art Museum. He is a faculty member at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Işık University, and Head of the Visual Communication Design Department. He works intensively to make Ex Libris recognised and widespread in Turkey. In 1996, he wrote a book about "Ex Libris". His works were accepted to the Ex Libris Museums of Denmark, Belgium, China and Italy. He held twenty-seven solo exhibitions, and participated in various competitive and group exhibitions at home and abroad. He gave many seminars on Ex Libris and held workshops. Within the framework of the ERASMUS programme, he gave lessons at the Belgium Ghent Academy of Fine Arts. He carried out research and study at the art museums of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Belgrade, Bonn, Bruges, Brussels, Geneva, Algiers, Dolores Hidalgo, Edmonton, Yekaterinburg, Florence, Ghent, Gliwice, Guanajuato, Helsinki, Kiev, Cologne, Nicosia, Liège, Lviv, Lisbon, London, Lausanne, Luxembourg, Maastricht, Madrid, Mexico City, Minsk, Moscow, New York, Nizhny Tagil, Nice, Nyon, Ohrid, Ortona, Ostend, Paris, Patras, Beijing, Perm, Porto, Prague, Pristina, Rome, Salzburg, San Miguel de Allende, Thessaloniki, Sint-Niklaas, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Chicago, Tirana, Skopje, Warsaw, Venice, Vienna, Wells, Yaroslavl. In 2003 and 2007, he organised the 1st and 2nd International Ex Libris Competitions; in 2008 the 1st International Printmaking Biennial; and in 2010 the 33rd FISAE International Ex Libris Congress and the International Ex Libris Competition. He is the President of the Istanbul Ex Libris Association and the Director of the Istanbul Ex Libris Museum.      

Eli Acıman

Mesut Manioğlu

Emin Barın

Atıf Tuna

     

Emrah Yücel

Emrah Yücel, Turkish graphic designer. Graduate of Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, 1989. He completed his Master's degree in the Graphic Department of Bilkent University. He is especially known for designing film posters of Hollywood cinema. His mother is the screenwriter Sezer Yücel, and his father is the film director Hasan Yücel.   Film poster designs The Hollywood film posters Emrah Yücel designed include Desert Saints, The Rules of Attraction, Charlotte Gray, The Guest, Bringing Out the Dead, The Barber, Suddenly Naked, Spy Kids, Billabong Odyssey, 28 Days, Path to War, Onegin, On the Line, O, No Good Deed, Lantana, Kiss of the Dragon, Framed, Enigma, Time Machine, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Real Women Have Curves, 24 Hours, The Four Feathers, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Jersey Girl, Dreamcatcher, Chicago, 007 James Bond, Frida, The Hours, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Big Bounce, Mindhunters, Iron Jawed Angels, Cold Mountain and Kill Bill. In Turkish cinema, he designed the posters of the films Mumya Firarda, Asmalı Konak and Vizontele Tuuba. Food sector designs In the Turkish food sector, he designed the new logo and packaging of Cola Turka.