Hello, I’m Erman Yılmaz,
an independent graphic designer and graffiti artist based in Istanbul.
I focus graphic design and type design, my clients range from art galleries, independent artists, publishers, schools, social and cultural institutions.

Member of
GMK Turkish Graphic Designers Association

Graphic and Type Designer, Co-founder informal project. Currently pursuing his master’s degree at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Graphic Design Department.

He is interested in lettering, graffiti, type design and calligraphy.

His works has been exhibited and featured locally and internationally such as TDC (USA), Weltformat(Germany), Graphis Annual(USA) BICeBé | Biennial of Poster Bolivia, Poster Quadrennial Bardejov (Slovakia) Grafist (Turkey), GMK (Turkey).

He is often invited to events as a workshop leader and speaker.

Talks about typography wherever and whenever!

The designer is still working in İstanbul and mostly produces works for the cultural/social sector.

WORKSHOP/SPEAKING/PERFORMANCE/JURY

Koç University / Diploma Jury
Turkey 2021

Çukurova Üniversitesi
Turkey 2021

ISTYpe [locl]
Turkey 2020

Kağıt Kesiği-Emre Karacan
Turkey 2020

DesignGost Podcast
NY,Turkey 2020

GMK Sunumlar #5: Afiş Tasarımı 
İstanbul, Turkey, 2020

Kristal Elma 2018
Jury Member
İstanbul, Turkey, 2018

Jeff Talks Peş Peşe
Salt Beyoğlu
İstanbul, Turkey, 2018

Mural Izmir 2018
Jury Member Mural Izmir
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality
İzmir, Turkey, 2018

PechaKucha Eskişehir
Dublin Cafe & Irish Pub
Eskişehir, Turkey, 2018

Behance Portfolio Reviews 
M.O.N Light Art Gallery & Design Studio
İzmir, Turkey, 2017

Design Talks
Koç University
Media and Visual Arts Department
Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

Sistem Hatası / System Error
with Sarp Sozdinler, Dokuz Eylul University
Izmir, Turkey, 2016

Sistem Hatası / System Error | A Manifold event
with Sarp Sozdinler 
Studio-x Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

Sözün imgesi, imgenin sözü
Anadolu Calligraphy & Typography Event
Anadolu University
Eskişehir, Turkey, 2016

Solo Graffiti Performance
Anadolu Calligraphy & Typography Event
Anadolu University
Eskişehir, Turkey, 2016

Sistem Hatası / System Error
with Sarp Sozdinler
, Ege University
Izmir, Turkey, 2016

Sistem Hatası / System Error
with Sarp Sozdinler
, Ataturk University
Erzurum, Turkey, 2016

Sistem Hatası / System Error
with Sarp Sozdinler
, Yasar University
Izmir, Turkey, 2016

Kent Duvarlarının Yarım Yüzyılı: Burhan Doğançay Retrospektifi
Solo Graffiti Performance, Istanbul Modern
Istanbul, Turkey, 2012

Meeting Of Allstars Graffiti Festival
Performance with Stilbaz Crew
,
Gezi Parkı, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012,2013,2014

EXHIBITION/MUSEUM

BICeBé | Biennial of Poster Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia, 2021

39th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2020

Parallel Lines
Hochschule Ausburg
Augsburg, German, 2019

38th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2019

BICeBé | Biennial of Poster Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia, 2019

Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01: Ministry of Graphic Design
Jeff Talks/Antilop Poster
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2018

37th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2018

Ecuador Poster Bienal
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión
Quito, Ecuador, 2018

Jeff Talks Peş Peşe
Salt Beyoğlu
Istanbul,Turkey, 2018

TDC64, World’s Best Typography” exhibition
Seoul, South Korea, May 12 – 2018
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Type Directors Club 64th Annual Typography Exhibition
41 Cooper Square
New York, USA, July 18 – 2018
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TDC64 Exhibition in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland, July 9 – 2018
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TDC64 Exhibition in Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium, September 12 – 2018

Starting Form Zero
Research of the Possibilities on ”Moving Posters”

studio-X istanbul.
Istanbul,Turkey, 2018

INAD/International Art and Design Exhibition
Selcuk University
Konya,Turkey, 2018

The Seattle-Istanbul Poster Show
Hemingway Center Boise State University
Seattle,USA, 2017

Base Istanbul 
Galata Rum Okulu
Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

Bak bana-Look at me 
Posters from Istanbul
Augsburg University, Germany, 2017

Co2poster Biennial
Colorado Mesa University, USA, 2017

36th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2017

Design Week Turkey17 
MSGSÜ Seçilmiş İşler
İstanbul, Turkey, 2017

Weltformat 17 
The moving poster 2
Luzern, Switzerland, 2017

International Poster Biennale Lublin
Lublin, Poland 2017

TYPE + TEXT
with Sarp Sözdinler, Muzeum Miasta Łodzi, Poland2017

13. JAZZ W RUINACH
POSTER EXHIBITION / WYSTAWA PLAKATU

Gliwice, Poland 2017

9th Yunus Emre Exhibition
Anadolu Calligraphy & Typography Event
Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2017

BICeBé | Biennial of Poster Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia, 2017

35th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Antalya, Turkey, 2017

Poster Quadrennial Bardejov

Slovakia, 2017

35th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2016

Weltformat 16 with Blank Poster
Luzern, Switzerland, 2016

8th Yunus Emre Exhibition
Anadolu Calligraphy & Typography Event
Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2016

Crossing Frontiers / Grafist20

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Istanbul, Turkey, 2016

Ege University Poster Exhibiton

with Sarp Sözdinler
İzmir, Turkey, 2016

The Seattle-Istanbul Poster Show
Marmara University Gallery, Sultanahmet Square
İstanbul, Turkey, 2016

Ataturk University Fine Arts Faculty Museum
Erzurum, Turkey, 2016

Blank Poster x Kon Exhibition
Einstein-Kultur, Munich, Germany, 2015

Urban Aesthetic Poster Exhibition
Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey, 2016

34th Graphic Design Exhibition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
Istanbul, Turkey, 2015

FEATURING/QUOTES

Page-online
Konzeptionell arbeitet auch die Informal Type Foundry aus Istanbul, die als zweite eigene Schrift, die Anafor herausbrachte, die sich auf den Konstruktivismus des russischen Künstlers Kasimir Malewitsch bezieht. Ganz auf die Winkel konzentriert, öffnet sich der Font zur Abstraktion.

Luc.Devroye
Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of the sticky tape typeface Anafor (2018).

Etapes:
“A beautiful posters series by Erman Yılmaz that explores typography. It’s always fascinating to see how it’s possible to be creative with letters.”

ual:
“Erman Yilmaz is a graphic designer and graffiti artist based in Istanbul, whose work focuses mainly on the arts, social and cultural sector. He uses shape and pattern to embed words into his work.”

Columbia University
Visualizing Information from the Ottoman Era to the Republic.

Gallery no:39
Full scale poster for “Mural İstanbul” in 39 issue of the Chois gallery.

GMK

Afişlerden Kartpostallar

Typographicposters
“Erman yilmaz (1985,turkey) is a graphic designer and graffiti artist based in i̇stanbul, whose work focuses mainly on the arts, social and cultural sector.”

Grainedit
“Erman Yilmaz’s passion for street art highly influences his digital work. Like graffiti, his typographic arrangements intertwine with illustrations in an elaborate and colorful fashion. As the elements converge, he inserts hidden details that add extra significance to the message of each poster.” 

aigaeyeondesign
“A spider’s web of type in Istanbul designer Erman Yılmaz’s Köken İçerisinde Notlar poster for FOL.”

mestudio
“I stumbled across these really nice type-based posters from turkish graphic designer Erman Yilmaz.”

COMPETITION AWARDS

2020 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
* Poster Design Achievement Award
– “Bauhaus Imaginista – Uzaklarda İstanbul”

Graphics Poster Annual 2021
* Silver Award
– “GMK Kırk yaşında”

* Silver Award
– “Boş Bir Oda Kendi Fonksiyonunu Yaratır”

Graphics Poster Annual 2020
* Gold Award
– “Muralistanbul 2018”

* Silver Award
– “Alex”

2018 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
* Best Poster Design Award (Cultural/Social)
– “Mural Festivali 2018″
* Best Typeface Design Award

– “Oddee Typeface”
* Poster Design Achievement Award 
– “Perşembe Sineması”
* Poster Design Achievement Award
– “Muralistanbul Sariyer”
* Poster Design Achievement Award
– “Sinemanın Sesi”
* Bikem Özsunay Faundation Poster Special Award
– “Alex”
* Bikem Özsunay Faundation Poster Special Award
– “Mural Festival 2018″
* Ihap Hulusi Poster Special Award
– “Muralistanbul”
* GMK Best Typeface Design Award
– “Oddee Typeface”

2018 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
* Bikem Özsunay Faundation Poster Special Award (Cultural/Social)
– “Osmanlı Topraklarında Yaşamlar”
* Typography Achievement Award


– “GMK Kırk Yaşında”
* Best Typography Design Award
– “Bağlantılar”
* Poster Design Achievement Award
– “Book of Taswir”
* Poster Design Achievement Award
– “Tomasz Bierkowskii”
* Best Typeface Design Award

– “Gaslamp Typeface”
* Best Typography Award

– “Studio-X Istanbul”
* Best Direct Mail/Flyer
– “Studio-X Istanbul”
* Book Design Achievement Award/strong>
– “Grafist21″

64th TDC, Type Directors Club Communication Design
* Typography Excellence Award
– “Anafor Typeface specimen poster”

2017 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)
* Best Typography Design Award
– “Crossing Frontiers”
* GMK Best Typography Design Award
– “Crossing Frontiers”
* Exhibiton Design Award 
– “Grafist 20”
* Typeface Design Achievement Award
– “Anafor Typeface”
* Catalogue Design Achievement Award
– “Crossing Frontiers”
* Exhibiton Design Achievement Award
– “Speak to the Eyes”
* Typography Design Achievement Award
– “The Dialogues”

Finalist at
Taiwan International Graphic Design Award
Taiwan, Republic of China

2016 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)

* Best Poster Design (Cultural/Social)

– “Mural İstanbul” (Poster)
* Best Typography
– “Köken İçerisinde Notlar” (Poster)

* Sait Maden Typography Special Award

– “Köken İçerisinde Notlar” (Poster)

* İhap Hulusi Poster Design Special Award

– “Mural İstanbul” (Poster)
* Bikem Özsunay Poster Design Special Award

– “Köken İçerisinde Notlar” (Poster)
* Poster Design Success Award(Cultural/Social)

– “Köken İçerisinde Notlar” (Poster)
* Typography Success Award

– “The Death of Cities/Kentlerin Ölümü” (Poster)

2016 Urban Aesthetic Competition
Organized by Ondokuz Mayıs University
* Best 100 Poster 
– “The Death of Cities”

27th Festival of Culture and Tourism “Bird’s Paradise” in Bandirma Poster Compitetion
* First prize winner poster

2015 Graphic Design Competition
Organized by Turkish Graphic Designer Association (GMK)

* Poster Design Success Award(Cultural/Social)
– “Mural Istanbul”(Poster)