Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Onur Yazıcıgil is an Istanbul-based typographer and design educator, born in 1983 in Konya. Onur spent his early years drawing letters in Dhahran and Ankara — early signs of a passion that led him to move to the States in 2006 to study the historical evolution of Latin sans-serif typefaces at Purdue University. After the completion of his MFA, he was recruited to teach at Sabancı University, where he designed his first text face, Duru Sans, which was acquired by Google, and developed Text Invader, a novel typographic intervention system. In addition to co-founding ISType in 2011, Onur served as a board member at ATypI from 2013-2019 and has lectured on numerous topics in the field of typography. In 2016, he embarked on a thesis exploring the history of Ottoman naskh typefaces at Mimar Sinan University, where he completed his PhD in 2020. Beyond working as an Assistant Professor at Sabancı University, Onur is regularly commissioned to design typefaces and multi-script typographic layouts. Both in his professional life and leisure time, Onur enjoys exploring the infinite possibilities of mark-making and continues to develop further synergies between typography and illustration.
In the North Aegean region, especially in Pergamon, there are monumental structures belonging to the Ionian, Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine periods since the 3rd millennium BC. During these periods, Greek inscriptions were formed with various materials. These are called Capitals, Customs, Cursives, and Minuscules by Greek paleographers. The Capitals variety, which has the oldest forms of these types of writing, is the inscription, which consists of more angular lines and large letters carved on stone. The fact that the region is very rich with the ancient Greek inscriptions of the capitals shows that it was used as an important means of communication in history. The creation of these inscriptions in various people and periods has in itself caused various letter forms. The basis of this project is to digitize the inscriptions of Capitals to create a functional Greek font. He joined the Gate 27 family to develop his project, which aims to document and preserve the historical forms of the letters in the digital environment with the Capitals font created and at the same time to repurpose them within the framework of various aesthetic concerns, at the Ayvalık location of the Gate 27 Guest Artist Program.