logos, book covers
and print.

I co-founded Act Creative in 2012. As creative director, I worked on book covers, identities, advertising and print, alongside photography and films for businesses and musicians.

During my collaboration with Can Yayınları through Act Creative, I designed every book cover or directed the team that did. I also designed or directed the publisher’s advertising, catalogues and other print work.

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Başkaldıran İnsan, Veba and Yabancı covers with white lettering over portraits in red, turquoise and ochre

Albert Camus

Can Yayınları · Book covers · Design

I designed three covers for Albert Camus’s centenary, using a shared halftone portrait to connect the series. Each book has its own colour, with white brush-script titles across the image.

Yaveri Atatürk’ü Anlatıyor and Ergenekon presented in two book advertisements

Can Dündar

Can Yayınları · Covers and advertising · Creative direction

Creative direction for the covers and advertising of Can Dündar’s Yaveri Atatürk’ü Anlatıyor and Ergenekon. The memoir uses a photograph of Atatürk; Ergenekon takes its cue from a stamped official document.

Ve Yeniden Başlar Hayat shown beside a larger image of a woman held by puppet strings

Zeruya Shalev

Can Yayınları · Cover and advertising · Creative direction

I directed the cover and advertising for Zeruya Shalev’s Ve Yeniden Başlar Hayat. The puppet figure carries across both, with the advertisement extending the image to reveal the hand holding the strings.

Erken Trenlerde beside a separate Can Yayınları short story celebration advertisement

Boris Pasternak and Öykü Şenliği

Can Yayınları · Book advertising · Creative direction

Two advertising projects for Can Yayınları: Boris Pasternak’s Erken Trenlerde and Öykü Şenliği, a celebration of short stories. I led the creative direction for both.

Nil’in Kızı, Taşların Çığlığı and Yasemin’in Kokusu above an illustrated landscape

Gilbert Sinoué

Can Yayınları · Newspaper advertising

I worked on this newspaper advertisement for Gilbert Sinoué’s historical novels, bringing three books together above an illustrated landscape of their settings.

A red Can Yayınları catalogue with its year formed from author names

2013–2014 catalogue

Can Yayınları · Catalogue concept · Design

A catalogue concept for Can Yayınları’s 2013 and 2014 titles. I built the year numbers from the names of its authors, including Alice Munro, Oscar Wilde, André Gide and Goethe.

An open catalogue with literary awards on one page and a heart made from miniature book covers on the other

The heart spread

Can Yayınları · Catalogue concept · Creative direction

A spread from the same catalogue concept, pairing literary awards with a heart made from miniature book covers. I led the creative direction.

logos and identities.

I also designed the identities for my own projects, including Goya Blue, Ikigai Daily and Documni.

Akava café wordmark, geometric symbols, cards and stationery in gold and grey

Akava

Logo and identity design

I designed Akava’s café identity around a gold wordmark and geometric symbols drawn from playing cards. The theme carries through the stationery and a card of its own.

Karafırın’s grouse logo and baking-tool pattern on aprons, takeaway packaging and stationery

Karafırın

Logo and identity design · Act Creative

For Karafırın, I drew a mountain grouse in loose, scribbled lines. It became the main mark in an identity that carried through packaging, menus and stationery.

Connected lowercase g and n in yellow, green and blue above the word International

gn International

Logo design · Act Creative

A connected lowercase lettermark for gn International, designed at Act Creative. The g and n share a line, with yellow, green and blue defining the different parts.

Promeka logo and layered blue waves on stationery, a CD and a presentation folder

Promeka

Logo and identity design · Act Creative

I designed Promeka’s logo and visual identity. An arc runs through the wordmark, while a blue wave motif carries across the stationery and presentation materials.

Yapı Artı’s folded blue plus logo on a brochure with workshop photographs

Yapı Artı

Logo and identity design · Act Creative

Artı means “plus” in Turkish. I used a folded blue plus sign as the basis of Yapı Artı’s logo and identity at Act Creative.

House-shaped initials for Flats in İstanbul on stationery, a minibar menu and a door hanger

Flats in İstanbul

Logo and identity design · Act Creative

I turned the initials of Flats in İstanbul into a house-shaped mark. The identity extends to guest materials, including minibar menus and door hangers.

posters and print.

A distorted black coffee cup with rising steam on a red Istanbul Coffee Festival poster

MOC Coffee

Poster design

A poster I designed for MOC at the Istanbul Coffee Festival. The distorted cup is a visual play on the Turkish headline, Kahveyi çekiştiriyoruz.

Karafırın menu on a clipboard beside its dark printed cover

Karafırın menu

Menu · Act Creative

I worked on Karafırın’s menu at Act Creative, extending the identity into a clipboard format with a single-sheet layout.

Karafırın’s illustrated grouse story beside bread bags, boxes, stickers and takeaway packaging

Karafırın packaging

Karafırın · Packaging · Act Creative

Packaging work for Karafırın at Act Creative, carrying the grouse illustration and hand-drawn graphics across bread bags, boxes and labels.

Karafırın chalkboard lettering, stationery and clipboard menus in black, white and red

Karafırın chalkboard and stationery

Karafırın · Stationery and menus · Act Creative

Chalkboard menus and stationery for Karafırın, made at Act Creative. The café’s black, white and red identity carries through the printed pieces.

Cruise Lounge snack menu cover with navy brush-script lettering over grey and beige triangles

Radisson Blu Cruise Lounge

Radisson Blu · Menu cover · Act Creative

A menu cover for the Cruise Lounge at Radisson Blu, created at Act Creative. It combines brush-script lettering with a geometric background.

A folded dark brochure with travel and hospitality photographs and Hyatt Concierge lettering

Hyatt Concierge

Brochure design

I designed this folded brochure for Hyatt Concierge, combining hospitality photography with text on dark panels.

An ERA LED Light catalogue with white geometric forms and a large circular lighting panel

ERA LED Light catalogue

Catalogue concept design

A catalogue concept I designed for ERA LED Light, using light and shadow across white geometric forms.

I also design for my own films. At Act Creative I made Weekend Wonderland ↗, an educational adventure game for children with learning difficulties.