Stylogeny combining Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design × WPA Silkscreen Posters

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Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design × WPA Silkscreen Posters

Both are 1930s state-backed poster programmes for public institutions and tourism; combine WPA silkscreen flatness with Görey's modelled figures for civic campaigns.

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Mix them and make something Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design WPA Silkscreen Posters

HOMEEarly Turkish × WPA Silkscreen Posters
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design, their arrangement from WPA Silkscreen Posters, the finish from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design WPA Silkscreen Posters

Type from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design
Colour from WPA Silkscreen Posters
Form from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design
Composition from WPA Silkscreen Posters
Surface from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design

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Bungee Shade, standing in for Shaded and extruded display letters and giant numerals (Milli Piyango '7', İş Bankası '12', Köy Halk Kıraatı)

Text · WPA Silkscreen Posters

Posters made by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration to promote health campaigns, education, theatre, travel and the national parks during the Depression. Unemployed artists adapted commercial silkscreen to print runs by hand, which gave the work its flat, opaque layered colour, simplified stylised forms and clear geometric lettering in a public-service voice.

Jost; WPA Silkscreen Posters used Hand-cut stencil lettering in geometric sans-serif capitals and Futura (Paul Renner, 1927) and similar geometric sans-serifs

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from WPA Silkscreen Posters, with a counter-accent from Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design WPA Silkscreen Posters

  • #efe6cf ground · 36%
  • #222222 ink · 14%
  • #c8622d accent · 18%
  • #cf1f2e accent · 14%
  • #d9a441 accent · 10%
  • #3d5a7a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #efe6cf;
  --ink: #222222;
  --accent-1: #c8622d;
  --accent-2: #cf1f2e;
  --accent-3: #d9a441;
  --accent-4: #3d5a7a;
  --font-display: "Bungee Shade", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design: Atatürk's likeness, the Turkish flag and the star and crescent are living national symbols, and Turkey's Law No. 5816 (1951) criminalises insulting Atatürk's memory, so do not caricature, distort or trivialise them when borrowing this style. Much of this imagery was produced for a one-party state and its campaigns, and Kemalist iconography (the unveiled "modern" woman, the six arrows, Atatürk portraits) is still politically charged in Turkey, read differently by secularists, religious conservatives and minorities whom the nation-building imagery left out. Do not present the regime's modernising narrative as neutral, and do not reuse party emblems as decoration.

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The two styles

A vintage-style illustrated Türkiye travel poster shows a woman in a red dress and white headscarf looking to the right above a blue coastal bay. A sailboat, hillside town with stone fortifications, distant mountains, and foreground trees fill the landscape beneath large red lettering. 1925–1960 · Middle East & North Africa Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design The pictorial poster, label and ticket art of the young Turkish Republic, led by İhap Hulusi Görey after his Munich training in Ludwig Hohlwein's orbit, with Münif Fehim Özarman and, after 1943, Kenan Temizan. Lithographed figures modelled in crisp patches of light and shadow, sometimes in only one or two inks, giant numerals and letters, framed emblems and bold hand-drawn lettering in the Latin script adopted in 1928 advertised banks, the State Lottery, the state monopolies and tourism, and promoted the state's new alphabet. A stylised hiker with a large backpack stands on an orange rocky overlook above a winding river, evergreen forests and blue mountains. An orange sun sits behind the peaks, and large blue lettering across the top reads “EXPLORE.” 1935–1943 · North America WPA Silkscreen Posters Posters made by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration to promote health campaigns, education, theatre, travel and the national parks during the Depression. Unemployed artists adapted commercial silkscreen to print runs by hand, which gave the work its flat, opaque layered colour, simplified stylised forms and clear geometric lettering in a public-service voice.

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