SÜPER NORMAL #01, “Okunuyor mu?” issue

Published January 24, 2025

SÜPER NORMAL is a magazine that focuses on typography but also on all design areas that typography touches. In doing so, it is a publication that includes experimental designs as well as text, asking questions, investigating, and visualizing these within each issue’s specific theme. It is a space that contemplates what normal is, searches for movement and excitement within normality, and questions ordinariness and rules.

The theme of the first issue is “Is it readable?” (“Okunuyor mu?” in Turkish). Inspired by the question, the first issue establishes a visual language that challenges norms and rules.

Idea, design and direction by Emre Parlak, using ABC Diatype Plus Variable.

The participants in issue 01 were Ali Emre Doğramacı, Christopher Çolak, Deniz Cem Önduygu, Emre Parlak, Erman Yılmaz, Esen Karol, E S Kibele Yarman, İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu, Onur Yazıcıgil, Okay Karadayılar, Ruslan Abasov, Sabri Akın, Seda Yüksel, and Umut Altıntaş.

The magazine was printed by Ofset Yapımevi on Fuoriso Magno Volume paper (115 g/m²). Close-up photographs by Deniz Cem Önduygu. Many thanks to Dinamo for the font support, Ofset Yapımevi for printing support, and all the participants who made the magazine possible.

Spread with a design by Sabri Akın

Text on the left in ABC Diatype Semi-Mono. The visual on the right is by Ruslan Abasov.

Spread with the contribution by Okay Karadayılar

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