Mavi Izmir Project

Izmir, (One of the best cities in Turkey, and proudly my hometown) has its own accent and some local words. The project’s purpose is that, “Let’s save our own dialect, it’s so funny!” 

On this project I am the copywriter, not designer. (But I designed the black & white typographic things, at the end of this page.)
It is impossible to translate the meaning of them, there are lots of word tricks. <span “line-height:=”” 15px;=”” font-fadiv=”” style=”margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; “>But obviously I should try. 

For example:
“Gevreğe Gevrek denir, simit yüzme bilmeyenler içindir.” means close to: “Tender called tender, bagel is only for a non-swimmer.” That doesn’t make sense, huh?

Let me try to explain that:
In Turkish, we have two words for bagel, one of them is “gevrek” which is used only in Izmir. The other word,“Simit” has two meanings. One is bagel, and other is life ring. I know that it’s so complicated to understand it for people who are not native speakers. Even some native speaker Turks who are not from Izmir are not able to got the humour of these sentences.
But I can say that, probably the biggest and the most valuable Turkish clothing company definitely liked this project! Many people who are from Izmir and other cities of Turkey also love this but many of them hate. I must admit that it’s a highly provocative project. Maybe because of this reason, over 4.000 people on Facebook ‘liked’ a t-shirt design, which is just a part of this project and more than 2500 people shared this in first 24 hours. :) Enjoy!
Role: Copywriter
Team: Ali Güleç (T-Shirt Designs of Çupra, Kumru - Female) RDB Creative Group (T-Shirt Designs of Domat, Kumru - Male, Gevrek)
Company: Mavi Jeans

Bo loves friendship. Bo loves milk. Bo loves his mum.  Bo hates racism. And I love Bo. Who is Bo? He is the king, who is one of my friends.

Bo, King of Holland is a children’s book for regular children, middle aged children and elder children. For all children who believe we are all children.

Credits
Habib Bektaş as author
Ozan Tortop as illustrator & designer
Özlem Tortop Akkaya as publishing director
Yunus Bekir Yurdakul as editor

Works for 10th Amateur Jazz Musicians Festival. As the art director of this festival for eight years, this is my last project for festival. I used previous years’ illustrations for 10th year special visuals. I co-operated with Gürsoy Şeref, Anil Tortop, Ismail Günbay and Hayat Kilinçkap for illustrations for over eight years. Thanks them all. Special thanks to creator of the festival, Devrim Dikkaya for this lovely ten years.

You can have a look at the festival site, previous works, twitter account and memorial book on issue.

This page is just a tiny drop for a collaborative children e-book project, titled Alphabet Friendship Book. Around 25 authors &amp; illustrators around the world have worked for this lovely charity project. You can check the book(just a demo part of course) here, and here is the blog post from uTales.
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This page is just a tiny drop for a collaborative children e-book project, titled Alphabet Friendship Book. Around 25 authors & illustrators around the world have worked for this lovely charity project. You can check the book(just a demo part of course) here, and here is the blog post from uTales.