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…
My 2008–2018 in Music
When the 10 Year Challenge hit social media last month, I challenged myself to do a datafied…
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…
The Information is Beautiful Awards
I was at the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards ceremony & party at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in…
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…
Metallica on Stage
Winner of the Bronze Medal in Data Journalism and of the Community Award in the inaugural Information…
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….
