Mustafa Kemal

At a time of speedy communications and low attention span, Yılmaz Özdil’s book on Mustafa Kemal written in his characteristic journalistic style has short sentences, frequent line breaks and no bibliography.

The book was set as a single block of flowing text. Chapter breaks would slow the flow of reading, so instead of giving a fresh page to a new chapter they were simply marked by an initial letter. The difficulty was that a single line or image that would need to change at the beginning of the book would affect all the following pages right to the end.

The typeface Bird was used for the capitals marking the beginning of chapters. It is a dynamic typeface like no other, hurling forwards, expressing the dynamism of Mustafa Kemal, the energy of the writer and the speed at which readers are meant to read the book.