book covers.
Tarık Akın is a partner and art director at boldblack studio. He designs book covers, mostly for Timaş Publishing: history, psychology, faith, fiction. Each cover starts from a single idea and a type that carries it.
covers
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one idea per book.
Flat covers, as printed.
Timaş Publishing
(TA — 01)
on the shelf.
Sixty-nine covers, side by side.
full covers
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back, spine, front.
The print files: the whole jacket as it wraps the book.
process
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drafts and alternatives.
Several directions for the same book, presented before the final choice.
Hikmet Publishing
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covers and an identity.
Hardcover editions for Hikmet (est. 1968), and five identity directions for the publisher.
Hasan Aycın
(TA — 05)
drawings, bound.
Covers and book design for the illustrator Hasan Aycın, including Kılağı.
also
posters for Palestine.
Fifty-nine posters and six boycott animations.
see the posters