A visual communication designer working mainly on social posters, branding, editorial design, an exlibris artist, as well as a design educator at Sakarya University since 2012.
Received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Uludag University, doctor of fine arts from Hacettepe University. My works have been exhibited at global design events such as the Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Shanghai Biennial of Asia Graphic Design, Ecuador Poster Biennial, Warsaw Poster Biennial, MadridGráfica, and ex-libris events held in Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, China, etc.
As part of my research into vernacular typography, I've studied the local letterforms in the Turkish cities of Bursa and Sakarya and the sign painters who made them. I am also a writer and an editor publishing the monthly newsletter of the Turkish Typography Society since 2019.
↳ contact@muraterturk.com
↳ Look at the detailed CV
↳ Typography Newsletter
↳ New Marketing Methods of Type Foundries: Accessing Unfinished Typefaces and Sub-brands
↳ A sign painter in the triangle of Lüleburgaz, Fethiye and Bursa: Abdullah Cankurtaran
↳ The sign painters of Sakarya: Cemalettin Vural and the Pilicci family
↳ The sign painters of Bursa
↳ Third eye in evaluation processes of visual communication design education: An artificial intelligence model
↳ From folk painting to graphic design: Numan Balıca and his apprentices in Adapazarı
↳ Basic approaches in visual communication design education: Specialism and generalism
↳ The car painter of Bursa: Enver Ertaban
↳ Vernacular as a design approach in visual communication design
↳ New generation digital reading experience and future of e-book
↳ The sign painter of Sakarya: Enver Yücebalkan
↳ Aesthetic experience in visual communication design and the importance of first attraction
↳ Ethic and its education in visual communication design through the concept of responsibility
↳ On the education of typography in Turkey
↳ From graphic arts to communication design: The state of visual communication design departments
↳ Ertürk, M. (2025). The Letters of Sakarya: In Pursuit of Commercial Artists and Sign Paintings, Değişim Publishing
↳ Durmaz, Ö. & Ertürk, M. (2025). Gülümser Aral Üretmen: One of The Pioneer of Female Graphic Designers in Turkey. E. Resnick (Ed.), Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon. Bloomsbury Publishing.
↳ Experimental Typography (2023). S. Selamet (Ed.), Advanced Typography (pp. 30–59). Eskisehir: Anadolu University Press.
↳ Vernacular Typography (2023). S. Selamet (Ed.), Advanced Typography (pp. 224–243). Eskisehir: Anadolu University Press.
2025 — Interview with Yaprak Buse Çağlar
2025 — Letters on the field: The rising power of typography in sports branding
2024 — The role of women in the type design
2024 — On vernacular typography
2024 — Interview with İbrahim Kaçtıoğlu
2024 — The awareness of diacritics
2024 — Typefaces that defy gender discrimination
2024 — Monopolisation in the type industry
2023 — Enver Yücebalkan: Signs of the Silver Screens, Issue 03 of BLAG (Better Letters Magazine)
2023 — Typographic mistakes with the examples Part Two
2022 — Interview with Murathan Biliktu
2022 — On the friendship of a car painter with the Turkish painter Abidin Dino in Istanbul in the 1940s
2020 — Interview with Cem Eskinazi
2020 — Interview with Erkin Karamemet
2020 — Typographic mistakes with the examples Part One
2019 — Fundamentals of typography: Using dashes correctly
2019 — Abstract: The Art of Design documentary and our great terminology helplessness
2019 — Interview with Efecan Serin
2019 — The future of typography [Translation]
2018 — On poster. 33 Posters, 2 Questions, 44 Answers, Manifold
2023 — Projector Magazine, No 39, St. Petersburg
2017 — Contemporary International Exlibris Artists, Portugal
2025 — 6th International Exlibris Competition Istanbul. Türkiye.
2025 — Type Text International Typography Poster Show. Łódź, Poland.
2025 — International Exlibris Competition Varna. Bulgaria.
2025 — Bursa Uludag University International Invitational Poster Exhibition. Türkiye.
2024 — 16th Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design. Russia.
2024 — International Competition of 'Exlibris for Peace' within the XL International FISAE Congress in Palma de Mallorca. Spain.
2024 — Luga Poster Biennale. Portugal
2024 — 12th International Eco-Poster Triennial 'The 4th Block'. Ukraine
2022 — 13th International Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2022 — 5th International Exlibris Competition. Istanbul
2022 — 14th International Anadolu Calligraphy and Typography Event. Eskisehir
2021 — 10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. North Macedonia
2020 — MadridGráfica20 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2020 — Ecuador Poster Biennial
2020 — International Exlibris Competition 'Spirit'. Poland
2018 — Ecuador Poster Biennial
2018 — 12th International Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2018 — MadridGráfica18 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2018 — 9th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Art Competition. Poland
2018 — The Seattle Istanbul Poster Show. USA
2017 — 4th Shanghai Biennial of Asia Graphic Design. China
2017 — 7th Contratalla International Biennial of Exlibris. Spain
2017 — XIII International Ex Libris Competition: Ex Libris-Ex Libertas. Bulgaria
2017 — MadridGráfica17 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — 2nd International Organ Donation Poster Competition. Switzerland
2016 — The Seattle-Istanbul Poster Show. Turkey
2016 — Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 12. Russia
2016 — 8th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition. Poland
2016 — 11th International Graphic Competition for Exlibris Gliwice. Poland
2015 — International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic.
2015 — First International Festival of School of Art and Design (FISAD). Italy
2014 — Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee 11. Russia
2014 — 24th International Poster Biennial Warsaw. Poland
2012 — International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic
2012 — 7th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. Macedonia
2012 — 2nd Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-Prints Biennial. China
2012 — 9th International Graphic Competition for Exlibris. Poland
2011 — The 5th Shanghai Fu Xian Zhai International Exlibris Invitational Exhibition. China
2011 — 5th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition Men-Earth-Universe. Gdańsk, Poland
2010 — 12th International Mail Art Exhibition Portrait. Alba, Romania
2009 — 6th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola. Bitola, Macedonia
2008 — 4th Contratalla International Biennial of Exlibris. Tarragona, Spain
2007 — 9th International Mail Art Exhibition People and Culture. Alba, Romania
2021 — Honorable Mention at the International Dervish Yunus Emre Exlibris Competition
2020 — Finalist at Ecuador Poster Biennial
2020 — Finalist (Top 60) at Uruguay Poster Festival
2020 — Honorable Mention at the International Exlibris Competition in Cyprus and Poland
2019 — Achievement Award at Sakarya University
2018 — Silver Award at Ecuador Poster Biennial
2018 — Finalist (Top 100) at MadridGráfica18 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — Finalist (Top 100) at MadridGráfica17 International Graphic Design Events. Spain
2017 — Finalist (Top 100) at the 2nd International Organ Donation Poster Competition. Switzerland
2015 — Finalist at International Trnava Poster Triennial. Slovak Republic
2012 — Finalist (Top 20) at Utilita Manifesta 2012 Design Contest: Energy For All. Italy
2012 — Excellent Exlibris at the 2nd Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-Prints Biennial. China
2011 — Honorable Mention at the International Rauf Denktaş Exlibris Competition. Cyprus
2011 — Second Award at the 5th International Exlibris and Small Graphic Forms Competition. Poland
2009 — First Award at the 4th May Day Poster Competition. Istanbul