Video Documentation
İzmir Typeface promo motion design
Motion design promo for the İzmir Font Family, animated by Çağatay Güçlü (Defektu) for the city's visual identity system.
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İzmir Typeface Promo
2020 / Motion Design - 2'24" - 4K Video - 2020
The İzmir Font Family is a geometric sans in normal and narrow widths, eleven weights, italics. It is a civic type system commissioned by İzmir Vakfı. The promo film had to introduce that entire structure in under three minutes: widths, weights, usage, and the relationship between typography and the city's visual identity.
My role sat across the wider identity and motion process. Alongside the animation, I was involved in industrial design work and designed much of the icon set, so the film had to extend a language I already knew from the inside rather than decorate it from the outside. The animation wasn't starting from zero. It had to preserve a calm, municipal tone while making the font's new ideas visible.