Kutlu Çanlıoğlu, Senior Creative Director for the BBC World Service, gave a detailed analysis of the process he went through in helping to create a Global Experience Language (GEL) for their news websites, which reach 180 million people each week, in 27 languages and 9 scripts.
Kutlu Çanlıoğlu has extensive experience as a user experience designer. We look forward to hearing from Kutlu at this year’s TYPO San Francisco.
The development of a typographic accent for the BBC World Service – judging by the account of Kutlu Canlioglu and Titus Nemeth – was always going to be a challenging, and in some respects thankless one. But in the process of trying to reconcile 27 tongues and 9 languages, they came across, stumbled through and ultimately succeeded in resolving some fairly major challenges.
