Exlibris Tasarımında Tipografik ve Kaligrafik Formlar
Typographic and Calligraphic Forms in Exlibris Design

Summary/Abstract: Exlibris also known as bookplate is a small graphic label or print, which is glued to the inside cover of a book with the purpose of identifying its owner. The Latin phrase ‘Ex libris...’, means; ‘from the books of...’, and is usually followed by the name of the owner of the book, who can be an individual or an institution. As small printed graphic arts, exlibrises mark the ownership of the volumes of the library in a decorative and elegant way and produced by well-known artists for more than five hundred years. Apart from late nineteenth century people started collecting exlibris, as a field of applied graphic arts of historical, artistic, sociological and bibliophile interest so that exlibris became an orginal graphic art work. In time, all graphic techniques which allow a high quality multiple production of an image used by the artists to produce exlibrises. As much as traditional techniques include woodcut, linocut, engraving, etching, aquatint, silkscreen or lithography, also computer technology can be used by today’s artists. Exlibris as a combination of typography and visual art, can be designed in different subjects like books, erotic, music, botany, music, mytology and especially exlibrises are classified in terms of aesthetic integrity, technical competence and relationship between text-image by collectors in today.This long time historical art form has an importantance of having the cultural, historical features of that period to present day and being an exchange object between artists and collectors. Besides its small size allows fascinating feeling warmth of an artwork, inside one’s hands. As well as the pictorial elements used in design, also typographical arrangements and the power of letters increase the value of exlibris as a communication tool. On the other hand typographic and calligraphic themed exlibrises have a serious notability between collectors because of carrying expressive codes of artist’s own and having a role in cultural transmission.

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