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ÇEVRE VE KENT ESTETİĞİ AÇISINDAN GRAFİK TASARIMIN ÖNEMİ
THE IMPORTANCE OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR THE CITY AESTHETIC

Author(s): Levent Mercin
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Graphic Design; Aesthetic; Urban and Environmental

Summary/Abstract: Cities are described as the architectural places which are the complements of the human products-different from the other materials that individual perceives in the nature and which serve himself, and which are shaped as much as the natural conditions let or sometimes by large scale plans Cities are like living beings and they include the traces of social lives, such as wars, large content organizations. Cities aren’t formed in short time.While they are being formed according to large scale plans, attentions is paid to its geopolitical position, natural resources, economic gainings and their service to social aims. Cities obtain identity with their original characteristics. In the identity of a city, the dominant properties of the city which come forward are decisive. So, while some cities come forward with their spatial properties, others come forward with socio-cultural properties. The works of art and graphic design products which take place in cities have a holistic structure which, reflect the problems of the society, contribute to delivery of cultural-artistic and design accumulation, make the city unite with the environment and the society that lives in it, help the city and environment togetherness to have a meaning.

  • Issue Year: 1/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-9
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish