Onur Yazıcıgil is a visual communication designer with an emphasis on typography and type design. He received his MFA in visual communications design from Purdue University where he researched the evolution of humanist and grotesque types. He won the first prize in typographic excellence in 2007 from the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago, and his posters were exhibited in the United States, Italy, South Korea and Turkey. He gave talks at TypeCon and ATypI and lectured on various topics in typography. His latest humanist sanserif typeface, Duru Sans was bought by Google to be used in the Google Webfonts directory. Onur Yazıcıgil is teaching visual communication studio classes, typography, and advanced illustration. He is the co-creator of ISType™ (Istanbul Type Seminars) as well as a board member of ATypI™ (Association Typographique Internationale).
Title
Faculty Member
Areas of Interest
Typography, Graphic Design, Type Design, History of Ottoman Typography
Awards
Jack Weiss Founder Award - Society of Typographic Arts | Chicago 2007 - 2007
Memberships
Association Typographic Internationale
Article
Ayiter, Elif and Yazıcıgil, Onur Fatih and Çetin, Cem Sina and Türkmen, Doruk (2013) "Deconstruction, legibility and space: four experimental typographic practices", Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, Vol.11, No.3, 209-221
Book
Arts and Technology: Fourth International Conference, ArtsIT 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, November 10-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Brooks, Anthony Lewis and Ayiter, Elif and Yazıcıgil, Onur Fatih (eds.), Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA: Springer International Publishing, June 2015
Book Section / Chapter
Yazıcıgil, Onur Fatih and Ayiter, Elif, "Text invader: a graphic interference on semantic flow", Arts and Technology: Second International Conference, ArtsIT 2011, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 10-11, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Brooks, Anthony L. (ed.), Berlin: Springer, October 2012, 145-151