DENİZ AYAZ
Deniz is an illustrator / graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves colors, fluidity in art, organic shapes, geometric patterns as well as contemporary art, simple & clever designs and hand typography. After graduating from Parsons with a BFA in Illustration, she worked with several artists and designers such as Dana Sherwood, Mark Pernice and...
ZEYNEP SOLAKOĞLU
Zeynep is 26 living and working in Istanbul. Her work explores what is inside, other than what is seen by the eye. Her characters are always focused on the inner value of things, the inner world. She tells us that their wild and careless approach comes from embracing their full nature and everything that comes with...
ÇİĞDEM MİCHALSKİ
Çiğdem Michalski is an illustrator and fine artist currently living and working in Istanbul. She is a half of the dynamic creative duo running Turkey’s premiere motion design studio – imago. These days she focuses primarily on illustration & arts, continues to design and art direct for motion pieces. Çiğdem’s style is inspired in equal part...
BERIL ATEŞ
Beril’s from Ankara, and is deeply in love with this city. She has always drawn, visited galleries, and coloured objects since she was a child, and for every illustration or photograph she has created, she has always taken inspiration from people. She loves people but has in time noticed that people can be mean beyond...
MİNE SÜBİLER : ANIMALS IN FICTION
Mine grew with animals, in a house with a garden in Istanbul. Her parents were both graphic designers which meant that she always had a connection with illustration. Being half Danish, after high school she spent two years studying in Copenhagen at a college filled with various workshops. She soon however realised that Denmark wasn’t...
BAL İÇME
Bal Içme is primarily interested in visual arts, and currently lives in Eskişehir where she is continuing her studies. One cold winter’s day she started Lula Handmade, for which she makes tote bags, ceramics for the kitchen, polymer and ceramic broaches and other bits and pieces which are yet to be released. These can currently...
C. M. KÖSEMEN
INTERVIEW BY : BANANÉ Could you please descirbe yourself in a short paragraph? I am C. M. Kosemen, and I’m 26. I worked and studied overseas for a long time, and now I’m back in Istanbul, trying to see how I can fit in to the life in the City. I was fortunate to have...
SEZGİ KUTTAŞ
Sezgi puts together found objects, turning them into wonderfully layered collages. Her favourite material to use during this process is old book pages. Recently she has also been working on a new conceptual photography project composed of lomography photos. - Sezgi buldukları parçaları birleştiriyor, müthiş katmanlı kolajlara çeviriyor. En sevdiği malzemelerden biri eski kitap sayfaları. ...
BURHAN ÖZGÜN ŞEN
Burhan was born in 1986 and has been drawing since her childhood. After secondary school she entered the Eskişehir High School of Fine Arts, where she opened four solo exhibitions in the city of Eskişehir and started drawing cartoons for several local newspapers. After four years of art education she entered the Anadolu University’s Graphics...
MUHARREM ÇETİN
Muharrem was born in 1983, currently lives in Istanbul and works in Fashion Design. For the past two years he has been experimenting with collages, using mainly anatomical imagery which have lead to his work being featured on various design blogs and magazines. He is also working on a new project consisting of producing music...
RONA BİNAY
When Rona was little, she noticed that her mother didn’t like their post box because of the bills inside it. Every week after that, Rona started putting little notes and her mother’s favourite sweets in the post box. One day she realised that the note she had written for her cat had been taken by...
DAMLA ÖZDEMİR
Damla studied Advertising and Cinema & TV at Bilgi University, where she is currently doing a masters in Cultural Management. For the past few years she has been shaped by the work she has been doing with images which had inspired her throughout her life. Whilst taking inspiration from avant-garde, constructivist, dystopic work, the materials...
