Alina Derya Yakaboylu's Culturally Rooted Design Practice

Alina Derya Yakaboylu, a designer and art director of Turkish-German descent residing in Augsburg and Munich, adopts a comprehensive approach to her projects. She intertwines research, dialogue, and poetic insight to reveal profound narratives. Her method is concept-driven, initiating with thorough investigation and discussions that probe into institutional identity, community, place, and shared memory. Yakaboylu's portfolio spans book design, exhibition posters, and visual identity, emphasizing themes such as growth, change, history, and community. For the 'Carrying' exhibition at Museum Brandhorst, she examined how locations embody specific '(hi)stories' and created a free publication to enhance accessibility in design. In addition to her independent work, she is the art director at Rose Pistola, where she recently developed a new identity for Sammlung Goetz/Schaufenster. Yakaboylu appreciates the equilibrium between her independent endeavors and studio collaborations, highlighting the autonomy and intuition gained from the former and the collective thinking fostered by the latter. Her work is highlighted in an article by Marigold Warner, a British-Japanese writer in Tokyo, published by It's Nice That.