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…
History of Philosophy Updated
I’m proud to announce a huge upgrade for my History of Philosophy, both in content and in…
Communicating Science: Gráphagos
On July 2nd, we led a variant of our Communicating Science events, this time as part of…
Grafik Anket: Logoları Nasıl Hatırlıyoruz?
4,5 yıl boyunca yavaş yavaş ve sinsice yürüttüğüm bir kişisel araştırma-eğlenme projesi olan Grafik Anket (Graphic Survey)…
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…
İstanbul Okurken
As curious people who read a lot in public transport, I, my girlfriend, and her sister started…
Mary the Marriageable
— There’s this girl Mary. — And? — Such a lovely girl, and she takes good care…
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, people usually resort to various (perfectly solid) counter-arguments, pointing to…
Visualizing Protein Motions with Static Images
In 2011 I worked with Canan Atılgan and Ali Rana Atılgan on the figures of their paper…
Cinemicroscopy
In my last microscopy post with the yellow sac spider, I had noted the resemblance between the…
Find Out What You Are
This is a personal project that dates back to 2009; I’ve been postponing sharing it because I…
The Big Picture in Seven Scales
See the full size and Turkish versions here. After publishing this, quite a lot of people have…
Image of Science
Image of Science was a workshop that seeks to bring researchers and designers together in order to…
Dawkins vs Gould
Review of Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny I had low expectations for…
Dennett’s Istanbul Talk Online!
Here it is, finally, Dan Dennett’s Istanbul talk titled “Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning” from last year….
Typography Is Important – An Introductory Practical Guide
After dealing with a variety of students from different classes such as Project Studio, Web Design and…
The Story of a Clever Young Man
Since I watched Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman and fell in love with the story told by J….