Project Title Speak to the Eyes Client Services Exhibition Client Name Studio-X Istanbul Delivery Date 18 May 2017 Visualizing Information from the Ottoman Era to the Republic “The best way to capture imagination is to speak to the eyes.” William Playfair* The information highways brought into our lives by a rapidly developing technology, transformed information into a web that is commonly known as “bigdata”**. Systems designed to store and process large volumes of data also changed the methods to get access to and present information. This enormous momentum gave prominence to academic fields, which document and archive information as well as enabling it to read past data. One of these is a multidisciplinary academic field, namely “informational design”. Although informational design which visualizes information effectively was greeted with enthusiasm as an emerging field of expertise, the background of the subjects that constitute this field has deep roots in history. We now know that, long before the bigdata came into our lives, the power of visualization that rapidly captures the eye and makes the content easily comprehensible was utilized for systematic approaches to information. The research exhibition “Speak to the Eyes” studies information visualization with a specific focus on the Late Ottoman and the Early Turkish Republic periods while also taking into account the history of informational design in the West. The research documents that as a method “graphics” were used deliberately and long before than commonly assumed for circulating and relaying quantitative information. The research also evaluates the consequences of these findings for the history of design. Curator: Ömer Durmaz Exhibition and Identity Design: Erman Yılmaz, Sarp Sözdinler Contributing Designers: Anıl Yanık, Barış Atiker, Burak Arıkan, Daniele Savasta, Deniz Cem Önduygu, Emrah Kavlak, Emre Parlak, Gökhan Ersan, Mahir Yavuz, Mehmet Gözetlik, Refik Anadol, Tuğcan Güler, Ziyacan Bayar Academic Advisory Committee: Emin Nedret İşli, Gökhan Ersan, İlhan Bilge, Mehmet Ö. Alkan, Murat Güvenç, Özlem Özkal, Sadık Karamustafa, Tuğcan Güler Editorial Contribution: Aybala Yentürk, Şerafettin Dedeoğlu, Fatih Çil, Fatih Dalgalı, Cengiz Kahraman, Ömer Faruk Şerifoğlu Translated by: Elvan Kıvılcım Printing: 3T Reklam, A4 Ofset Acknowledgements: Ahmet Priştina Kent Arşivi ve Müzesi (APİKAM), Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi (ANAMED), Atatürk Kitaplığı, Denizler Kitabevi, Ege Sevinçli, Elif Kocabıyık, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Esen Karol, Feza Günergun, Gökhan Akçura, Hasan Mavi, İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü ve Suna Kıraç Kütüphanesi, Iraz Geray, İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi, Liz Erçevik Amado, Lorans Tanatar Baruh, Milli Kütüphane, Nejat Yentürk, Osman Tülü, SALT Araştırma, Selva Gürdoğan, Studio-X Istanbul, Şaban Özdemir, Şükrü Oral, Sinan Çuluk, Tasarım ve Tasarım Tarihi Topluluğu (4T), Tofaş Bursa Anadolu Arabaları Müzesi, Uğur Kavas, Volkan Ekşi, Vehbi Koç ve Ankara Araştırmaları Merkezi (VEKAM)