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Boşluk: Magazine and Identity

A student magazine I co-founded and led as head of design. Identity system and editorial design across the first issue, 'Ses'.

2024InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
EditorialIdentity

Boşluk, the Turkish word for 'space' or 'void', is a student magazine I co-founded and led as head of design. The title points to the empty space the publication tries to fill: a platform for new voices that don't fit the conventions of existing university media. The design work covered both the identity system and the full editorial design of the first issue, themed 'Ses' ('Sound').

Identity

The wordmark is built from a lowercase 'b' followed by a filled circular dot, sized to match the counter of the letter. Read against the Turkish word, the mark reads as 'b.', a shorthand abbreviation that doubles as a visual nod to the Greek letter omega (Ω), signalling both an end and a beginning at once. The construction locks the two elements on a shared vertical axis with equal stem-to-counter ratios.

Geometric construction diagram of the Boşluk logo, showing the lowercase 'b' and circular dot built from intersecting guide circles and grid lines.
Primary Boşluk wordmark in white on a solid black field.

Colour

The identity uses a restrained palette: black and off-white as primary, with a family of blues running from pale sky to deep navy. Blue was chosen for its association with the cover concept of the first issue, sound waves, and for its editorial neutrality across article moods.

Boşluk colour palette as horizontal stacked bars: pale blue grey, mid slate blue, deeper slate blue, darkest navy, each labeled with role and hex value.

Applications

Boşluk business card resting on a linen surface, logo and minimal typography.
Boşluk tote bag hanging from a wooden chair, large logo centered on the cream canvas.

The Magazine: 'Ses'

The first issue of Boşluk, 'Ses' ('Sound'), collects essays and features on voice, noise, music, and silence. The cover places a stylized human head in profile with a vinyl record for a mind, framed by the magazine's logo and a single word, 'ses!'. Inside, the layout stays editorial and restrained: a consistent typographic grid, generous white space, and photography treated as large-format inserts between text.

Boşluk magazine issue one cover, showing a human head silhouette with a vinyl record as the brain, headline 'ses!' beneath.
Two copies of the Boşluk magazine arranged on a woven tray, showing cover and partial spine detail.

Spreads

Editor's introduction spread, left page with masthead, right page with editorial column.
Manifesto spread with large blue logo mark and short manifesto text facing it.
Feature spread with ink-blot imagery on the left and dense body text on the right.
Feature spread on the cultural role of voice, classical painting used as background imagery.
Spread on Hellblade's sound design, dark moody photography on the right, yellow-highlighted title block on the left.
Spread on the question of AI voice vs human voice, condensed headline 'İnsan Sesi mi Yoksa Yapay Zeka mı?' over a moody portrait.
Editorial spread with a dystopian illustration and the large condensed headline 'BÜYÜK TUFAN' (The Great Flood).