I am an Assistant Professor and visual metaphor designer. Working at Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Fine Arts / Visual Communication Design Department and also as a freelancer.
My speciality is visual metaphors which I have been working almost 20 years on. I also wrote my PHD thesis on this topic too.
I have more than 30 international and national awards about Logo, Poster, Package and Ads design.
Some of my works published and exhibited more than 50 different countries, museums and art galleries,
Additionally to informations written above I have finished 5 national and 2 international projects, such as European Union based Textbook Designs and national artists’ books designs supported by Turkish Ministry of Culture.
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PROJECTS
1) “Council of Europe” and Ministry of National Education are together developed: “DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT” 21/03/2012 -17/10/2012
2) MAKING SHORT ANIMATIONS OF LEGENDS IN TURKISH HISTORY, Assistant, 13/01/2015 - 12/07/2015.
3) Design and Developable Software for Educational and Entertaining Electronic Textbooks for Elementary School Students that can be Used on Android Devices, Assistant, 19/10/2015 - 18/04/2016.
4) Preparation of the book "Tile Artist Hamza Üstünkaya and His Works", Designer, 16/01/2017 - 17/01/2018.
5) Three Dimensional Moving Book Design in City Promotion, Assistant 18/07/2017 - 17/10/2018.
AWARDS
1) Non Discriminate' themed International Social Awareness Poster Design Competition, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University · 2022 (TOP 100)
2) 'COVID-19' themed International Social Awareness Poster Design Competition Peru Design Bienalle · 2021 (TOP 100)
3) 'Fake News' themed International Social Awareness Poster Design Competition Poster for Tomorrow (France) · 2021 (TOP 100)
4) 'HOPE' Themed International Visual Message Design Competition, Poster Iran · 2021 (TOP 10)
5) 'AIR POLLUTION' Themed International Visual Message Creating Competition, Moscow Poster Artists Association 2020 (TOP 5)
6) 'EDUCATION' Themed International Poster Exhibition, ECUADOR POSTER BIENAL · 2020 (TOP 100)
7) 'IT'S YOUR PART' Themed Ads Design Competition, Ads-of-the-World · 2020 (TOP 5)
8) 'ZERO WASTE' Themed International Poster Design Competition, POSTERLAND ·2020 (TOP 100)
9) 'Irresistible Flavor' themed Ads Design Competition, Ads-of-the-World · 2018 (TOP 10)
10) 'IRREGULAR URBANIZATION' Themed International Visual Metaphor Competition, Samsun Metropolitian Municipality · 2017 (TOP 15)
11) 'To Death With a Smile' International Poster Design Competition, MEXICO MUMEDI MUSEUM · 2017 (TOP 100)
12) 'CROSSING FRONTIERS' Themed International Poster Design Competition, MIMAR SINAN UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS · 2016 (TOP 5)
13) 'ABOUT TURKEY' Themed International Poster Design Competition' BIAH 2020 (7th AWARD)
14) “100th Anniversary of the Turkish National Struggle "Young Art: 3rd Poster Design Competition", MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM, 2019 (FIRST PRIZE)
WORKSHOP
1) Amsterdam School of Art, The Ways of Visually Creative Thinking, 2022.
2) Taiwan International Art Biennal, How to Create Visual Message, 2021.
3) Digital Errors in Web Sites, Glitch Art Typography Workshop for Students, Osmangazi University Faculty of Art and Design, 2017.
4) Workshop Study on the Use of Visual Metaphor in Poster Designs, Dumlupınar University Faculty of Art, Visual Communication Design Department, 2013.