Thank you for these great book covers! I have noticed that nowadays many Turkish book covers are cheaply designed and especially typography is bad. But maybe that's a problem of the book and design market in Turkey in general... Erkin Koray rocks! :)
An interesting synaesthetic equivalence arises listening to song or seeing typography in an unknown language: the musical or visual forms, atmospheres, compositions bleed into the mysterious words to allusive/elusive effect. All the books seem potential mystery stories; on one hands grasp at a sense the bars deny; on another electricity pylons hum coded messages about the land to the sky. Koray translates this into the description of a journey made in a dream that's yet to finish.
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ReplyDeleteI can't get enough of these posts!
ReplyDeleteYet another great post!
ReplyDeletethese covers are fantastic! - great choice from the Turkuler.
ReplyDeleteThank you for these great book covers!
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that nowadays many Turkish book covers are cheaply designed and especially typography is bad. But maybe that's a problem of the book and design market in Turkey in general...
Erkin Koray rocks! :)
this must be for thanksgiving right? (turkey)
ReplyDeleteAn interesting synaesthetic equivalence arises listening to song or seeing typography in an unknown language: the musical or visual forms, atmospheres, compositions bleed into the mysterious words to allusive/elusive effect. All the books seem potential mystery stories; on one hands grasp at a sense the bars deny; on another electricity pylons hum coded messages about the land to the sky. Koray translates this into the description of a journey made in a dream that's yet to finish.
ReplyDeletehey there, overall great blog that i follow regularly, but today you touched my heart with a video of the great great Erkin Koray. amazing!
ReplyDeleteyay! erkin koray... nice to find him here... he's amazing... man all these covers are incredible....!!!!!
ReplyDeleteyour hero Erkin Koray is a fascist, supporting (without a shame) the ultra-nationalist/fascist party (MHP) in Turkey
ReplyDeleteOh man. Does it make it any better that I thought he was already dead?
ReplyDeleteLet's qualify by saying "musical hero"... for that song... and that video.