Photography: Ali Yavuz Ata Styling: Mehlika Aydoğan Hair & Make-up: Georgina Billington Models: Beata (Newmodels) - Beril (Bybusto) - Carolina (301) www.ppristanbul.com

While studying industrial & product design at METU, Ersoy realised he somehow wanted to design and capture fleeting moments. He specialised in visual and conceptual design, photography and cinema at the same university. He launched his filming and photography career with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Turkey" as an assistant director. Since then, he has been involved in the creation of several short movies, TV ads, and video art projects. Today, besides his film career, he is focused on the ever expanding field of fashion photography. Ersoy designs real and virtual images, moving and still. Keep an eye on him! ________________________________________________________________________________ METU'de endüstriyel ve ürün tasarımı okurken, Ersoy fatoğrafa olağan merakını keşfetti. Üniversitede hem görsel ve konseptüel tasarım okudu hemde fotoğrafcılık ve sinema. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı sayesinde, asistan direktörü olarak ilk sunduğu film "Türkiye" idi, böylece yönetmenlik ve fotoğrafçılık kariyerine ilk adımlarını attı. O zamandan beri, kısa film, televizyon reklamları ve sanat video projeleri için çalışıyor. Artık yönetmenlik kariyeri dışında, hep genişleyen moda fotoğrafçılığı dalına odaklanıyor. Ersoy hem gerçek ve virtüel, oynayan ve hareketsiz görseler yaratıyor. Sakın gözden kaçırmayın! unplugged.ersoyalap.com

Here's some more inspiration for all of you out there! Karl Grandin was born in Sweden on Christmas Day 1976. After working as the art director for the influential Swedish music magazine Pop for two years he joined forces with a fellow artist in Stockholm and founded the graphic design unit Vår. Grandin studied at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam between 2004 and 2006. In 2004 he started the revolutionary clothing label Cheap Monday together with some friends and were responsible for the brand's complete graphic expression for four years. Today he divides his time between freelance work and autonomous art projects. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karşınızda bir ilham kaynağı daha! İsveç'te, 1976 senesinde, Noel günü doğmuş. 2 sene boyunca İsveçli  ünlü Pop müzik dergisinde sanat yönetmeni olarak çalıştıktan sonra, Stockholm'da başka bir sanatçıyla Vår adında grafik tasarım stüdyosunu açıyor. Grandin 2004'ten 2006'ya kadar Amsterdam Sandberg Institute'da okudu. 2004'te bir kaç arkadaşıyla, devrimi Cheap Monday kıyafet markasını kuruyor ve dört sene boyunca labelın bütün grafik ifadesinin sorumlusu. Artık zamanını freelance işlere ve otonom sanat projelerine ayırıyor. www.karlgrandin.com

İrem was born in just 1989 and is now studying Textiles at the Istanbul Technical University. For 6 months she worked on painting at Sevil Tunaboylu and Erkin Gören's studio and is still painting today. She tells us that When painting she doesn't care about something looking real, and as opposed to dwelling on the effect of things from the outside world on her, she's more interested in the effect she has on these occurances herself. This doesn't mean that she doesn't give a damn about the outside world, she just lives in a way that is detached from the outside world, drawing distorted legs, wonky heads, she creates an irregular community because that's just what she enjoys... —————————————————————————————————————————————— İrem 1989 yılında doğdu ve şu  anda İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Tekstil bölümünde okuyor. 6 ay kadar Sevil Tunaboylu ve Erkin Gören'in serbest resim atölyesinde resim çalıştı ve hala çalışmalarına devam etmekte. Resim yaparken gerçekçi görüşü umursamadığını söylüyor, daha çok dış dünyada olan şeylerin üzerindeki etkisini değilde, onun o olaylar üzerindeki görüşlerinin üzerinde duruyormuş. Bu demek değildirki dış dünyayı umursamıyor, dış dünyadan bağımsız yaşıyor, mesela çarpık bacaklar, yamuk kafalar düzensiz bir topluluk toplum çiziyor çünkü bundan hoşlanıyor. iremgunaydin.tumblr.com

Necmi graduated from Bilkent University’s Fine Arts and Architecture Faculty, he studied graphic design. He was born in 1988 in Ankara. He’ s been living there all his life and absolutley loves Ankara! He’s been drawing all his life, without really knowing what and how he draws. This exercise on paper, is a psychoanalysis to him. After creating an illustration, he loves saying something like “Today, I feel a bit like this”, “I’ve got these feeling inside”. He is very much into comics (especially Batman) (of course Batman!) and humoristic mags, and has always been passionate about Turkish movies, foreign ones, soap operas and songs he grew up with, which he thinks are equally important for people from his generation. All this made Necmi the person he is.  After a stressless year of foundation course, he got into Bilkent University. After his second year of BA he got even more into his studies... He is drawn to the imaginary side of life. He’s open to other mediums aswell such as the meaningless photography films he keeps and motion graphics he has done in the past, he get a lot of satisfaction out of working on his art. Isn’t that what ...

Özlem studied at the Graphic Design Department of Bilkent University with a full talent scholarship and also spent a year studying sculpture at Hacettepe University. She then did her MA in Graphic Design at Hacettepe University, where her thesis project was titled Techno-Graphic Experimentations on Visual Language of Electronic Music. She has 2 years of work experience as Research Assistant during her MA, and also has 3 years of Art Direction experience at Lab 34 in Istanbul. So far her freeiance work has included collaborations with Swatch, Cecille Records, Gourmet Records, Levi's, Starbucks and Sony BMG. Having taken part in 9 joint exhibitions, her first solo exhibition, After The After-Hours took place in September 2008 at PlayStudio Istanbul. The magical intricacy yet simplicity of her illustrations are influenced by world culture, sometimes from that of the Ottomans or the Far East, yet they can sometimes even suggest a futuristic space age. She's also got a new project up and running - be sure to check it out - maddeck.com. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Özlem Bilkent Üniversitesi'nde tam burslu okuduğu Grafik Tasarım Bölümünden mezun olduktan sonra Hacettepe Üniversitesi'nde bir senelik heykel eğitimi aldı. Elektronik Müziğin Görsel Dili Üzerindeki Techno-Grafik Deneyler isimli hazırladığı tez projesi ile sonradan Hacettepe ...

Tamer is a freelance designer from Eskişehir. He was actually born in Courtepin in Switzerland in 1985 and has been living in Turkey since 1994. Currently he's studying at Anadolu University in both the Fashion Design and Industrial Design departments. He specialises in branding, aiming to solve design problems as simply as possible, and also states that this is also influenced strongly by his Swiss legacy. Apart from Tamer's branding work, we were also especially impressed by his T-shirt designs, and also his modern representation of typical Turkish imagery... ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tamer Eskişehirden freelance tasarımcı. 1985'li olan Tamer, aslında İsviçre'de Courtepin'de doğdu ve 1994'den beri Türkiye'de yaşıyor. Şu an Anadolu Üniversitesi'nde hem Moda Tasarımı hem de Endüstriyel Tasarım bölümünde okuyor. Özellikle brandingle ilgilenip, tasarım problemlerini basit bir şekilde çözmeyi seviyormuş. Aynı zamanda işleri İsviçre kaynaklarından da çok etkileniyormuş. Branding'den başka, biz özellikle Tamer'in T-shirt tasarımlarından ve Türk imajlarının modern kullanışınından etkilendik... ww.tamerkoseli.com

WRITTEN BY : ÇAĞIN TÜRKER While Derin aka Mekazoo was designing furniture and fair stands, one day he decides to start making toys. One day, whilst designing furniture and fair stands, Derin Çiler, aka Mekazoo, decided to start making toys. He asked the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestlers for help, and started wrestling with them. No, no, I don't think so. If he'd done that I'd probably be writing a piece in his memory right now. Derin Çiler used the wrestlers he really was interested in as inspritation and created Robolucha. When he won a competition run by www.patchtogether.com, a website followed closely by toy designers, he also became the first person in Turkey to make a design toy. Robolucha then went on a world tour and the world then heard the footsteps of a Turk in vinyl. Your favourite designer? There are a lot of designers whose work I follow closely. At the moment it's hard to pick one name but for the World War Robot series toys and illustrations I'd say Ashley Wood. Food you can't say no to? The combination of köfte and potatoes. Your favourite cartoon character? Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy. Peter Pan or He-man? The question you should really be asking me here is Captain Hook ...