Her artistic and design background consists of diverse form and content with an emphasis to social issues in urban life and the explorations of interactive graphic mediums. Works are designed as tools to create awareness and debate on human rights and disasters through narrative strategies, curiosity, humor and interactivity.
Born in Izmir, 1974. Earned her BA and MFA degrees in graphic design on scholarship from Dokuz Eylül University, Bilkent University and University of Florida. Her master thesis topics include posters of Turkish melodrama and graphic design for social good. Worked as an intern designer in UNICEF, Ghana. Received her PhD degree from Istanbul Technical University with her thesis on film title design in Turkish cinema. She's an assistant professor in Faculty of Communications, Bahçesehir University, Istanbul. She has been working as a freelance illustrator, designer and writer in various magazines and books.
Her artistic and design background consists of diverse form and content with an emphasis to social issues in urban life and the explorations of interactive graphic mediums. Works (such as Map of Awareness and Home Truths) are designed as tools to create awareness and debate on human rights and disasters through narrative strategies, curiosity, humor and interactivity. They are investigations of how to utilize interactivity & participatory narration, accessibility, perceptibility, play and strategy in design and public space.
Her work also consists of moving images such as animations and videos like The Children of the Other Lands, which won Best Animation award in Istanbul Short Film Festival, 2006 and screened worldwide. It's a 2D animation made up of collages from illustrations, drawings, etchings and photographs about favorite moments and nightmares from childhood. Her video Finely Embroidered is a personal reaction to various disorders taking place in Turkey. The video consists of drawings inspired from the daily Turkish newspaper photographs. These are combined with the fine embroidery made by her grandmother. In the recent years, her main body of work has moved from socially charged projects to very personal ones. She continues her research on graphic design and her art and design projects in different mediums.
Image: "That", digital monoprint, 85x60cm
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