Turkey

Atolye on creating a space where community and strategic design meet

"There are many untapped markets as well as industries that need radical interventions" says architect Nesile Yalcin. >
Three ways designers are preparing for disaster

These innovations are not only responsive but empathetic, taking a human-centred approach to solutions-based design. >
The surreal merging of Hüseyin Sahin’s disparate worlds

Dramatic photography and Photoshop wizardry meet for striking visual effect. >
Ayse Birsel

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Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love". >
The RAGAMUF: A sustainable chair rug for the home

Each rug is made from excess fabric from the textile industry. >
Turkish artist toys with gravity in surreal depictions of Istanbul

Flatland is a series of digital landscapes that toy with perception, memory and our understanding of gravity. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Life Without War explores the ordinary things lost to war

Turkish artist doodles normal life to show the ways that war has robbed Syrian children. >
Audio sculptures that modify your perception of the world

Are you grumpy? Özgün Kılıç’s graduation project hypothesizes that it might be because of the sounds around you. >
The AVLU collection by Ayse Yesim Eröktem

Ayse Yesim Eröktem works with craftsmen from Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar to give traditional Turkish designs a contemporary twist. >
Interior fusion

Marcel Wanders is creating a dynamic fusion of east and west for his interior design for Quasar Residence in Turkey. >
Vision for a new city

Take a look at Dror Benshetrit's visionary proposal for creating a new island community for Istanbul, Turkey. >
Reading list

A Turkish designer's "TarGetBook Shelf" makes it easy to organise your books according to those that have been read and those that must still be read. >
Re-figuration

A Turkish visual artist challenges conventional notions of beauty and body ornaments with her “face-distorting” jewellery. >

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