2021
Aylin Alakbarli
#typography
On my journey of experimenting with typography, I created “Khalcha” inspired by different Azerbaijani, Turkish and Persian carpet motifs. My aim in creating this typeface is to pay homage to the ancient art of carpet weaving and giving it a new, modern expression.
#editorial
"Lucent" is a single-release online magazine, goal of which was to provide our university's community a creative outlet for their thoughts & creative work, including poetry, essays, art, photography. The magazine received 40 submissions from a 400 person student body, 20 of which were selected and featured each in their own section, with its own unique design and layout.
#editorial
A personal project devoted to my friends, 1-5 is a biographical zine series centered around 5 different musicians.. Each zine tries to convey the artist's discography and its connection to their biography through duotones and typography.
#editorial
"Locked Out of Heaven" is a zine, aimed at shedding light on the lifes of some of the most influential women in history, merits of whom, unfortunately, went unnoticed in their due time. The project was done in a team of two, in the framework of European Youth Parliament – an international NGO actively promoting and enabling active citizenship and socio-political debates.
#typography
"Lapis" is a typeface created in Processing, a graphics library for creative coding and visual design. The characters are composed of a myriad of small circles, cold colors of which are generated randomly within a certain color space, from ultramarine to emerald....
#typography
A typeface, focused on the aesthetics of the human body, specfically, its most expressive parts – hands.
#web
UI design for a meteorological data tracking application.
#poster
Examples from my daily poster designs.
#photography
Narrative photography series connecting emotions and nature.
Thank you!