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Alina Derya Yakaboylu is an independent designer with an international portfolio, specializing in concept-driven design across a range of disciplines. Her expertise includes creating websites, posters, visual identities, and art direction, with a focus on cultural and social issues.
Alina collaborates with both global institutions and individual clients, bringing a sensitive and attentive approach to each project. She is also a member of the Studio Rose Pistola, where she works as an artidirector.
Her practice emphasizes careful listening, holistic methods, and deep client engagement.
Alongside her professional work, Alina dedicates herself to free projects, which serve as a platform for exploring new design ideas and pushing creative boundaries.
Alina Derya Yakaboylu studied graphic design at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Augsburg and Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi in Istanbul.
In 2021, she was honored with the Kulturpreis Bayern for her master’s thesis on neighborhood research from a designer’s perspective.
Currently, she operates out of Munich, Germany.
selected Clients+Collaborations
Acid Pauli (Berlin, DE)
Berlin School of Sound (Berlin, DE)
Even/Odd Films Agency (Portland, US)
Friedensfest (Augsburg, DE)
Galerie Sammlung Amann (Stuttgart, DE)
Gabriele Space (München, DE)
Goethe Institut (DE/FR)
Go Drag! Festival (München, DE)
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Project (Berlin, DE)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE)
Hara Shin (Artist, DE)
House of Gül (Portland, US)
Juvam gGmbH Jugenhilfe (Bielefeld, DE)
Katalog Film Productions (München, DE)
Kültürtage e.V. (Augsburg, DE)
Literarisches Colloquium (Berlin, DE)
Living the classical life (New York, US)
Marie Zrenner (Artist, DE)
Mohammed Samad for NIKE (London, GB)
Netzwerk Münchner Theatertexterinnen
(München, DE)
Orbital Reflector (München, DE)
Radio 80000 (München, DE)
Rorschach Studios (Los Angeles, US)
Pathos Theater (München, DE)
Sedef Adasï (Artist, DE)
Spoiler Aktionsraum (Berlin, DE)
Studio Julian Warner (Berlin, DE)
Weißenhof Museum (Stuttgart, DE)
Zam e.V. (Augsburg, DE)
Teaching
2023, HFG Karlsruhe, Project: C.A.L.A.
Exhibitions
26.-28.09.2024
“Us by Night”
Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
(Poster installation as a collaboration between Graphic Matters and Antwerp Poster Festival)
1.-22.05.2020
“Arbeiten”:
Text&Posters on “work”,
Spoiler Aktionsraum, Berlin Moabit
PressArticels on: C.A.L.A. (2023-2024)
fonds-daku.de/community-arts-lab-augsburg-cala/
brechtfestival.de/people/cala-community-arts-lab-augsburg/
Interview: Everpress (2023)
Articles on: Kulturpreis Bayern (2021)
Kulturpreis-Bayern-fuer-Derya-Alina-Yakaboylu
aesthetische-forschung-und-ueber-oberhausen-kulturpreis-bayern
Portrait: it’s nice that (2020)