Starbucks Cup Design Call 2026

For the Local Motifs category, I drew inspiration from İznik tile art "Çini", a traditional Turkish art form applied to white ceramic surfaces whose origins can be traced to royal palaces. I believe that incorporating this distinctive art into a paper coffee cup transforms the act of drinking coffee from an ordinary daily habit into a small, meaningful ritual, celebrating the cultural connection between coffee and Turkish heritage.

For the Doodle Hand-Drawing category, my goal was to capture the feeling of a moment, as doodling is not based on a planned design but rather on spontaneous expression. Since the design call took place during the summer, I was naturally drawn to warm and vibrant colors. The result was a curvy figure relaxed and slightly dazed by the summer heat, enjoying the scent of a blooming flower.

Character Design and Rigging

Jazz Musician Fat Liver Blue

This project is selected for the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference in Vancouver. It is exhibited at the SIGGRAPH FSSW Exhibition, Character Setup and Animation from After Effects for Animators.

Starbucks Cup Design Call 2024

Sohbet — meaning "conversation", "discussion", "chat" in Turkish.

Starbucks is a well-known coffee chain, but as someone who doesn't drink much coffee, for me it's the place / the drink / the lifestyle that brings people together. Thus, my cup design is a representation of the people who have different tastes and experiences, are in communication.

Büke — Kinetic Identity

Büke is a Music Hall concept for middle-aged intellectual persons to have quality time and entertainment in Istanbul. This is a branding guideline book for Büke's kinetic identity.

Büke's aim is to revive Gazino culture of Turkey in the modern world. Gazino is a kind of live performance nightclub primarily found in Istanbul, and this form of entertainment started to fade away by the late 1990s. Many Turkish artists performed there and some artists gained fame there. To bring this culture back to life, old prints of these artists were used as kinetic brand identities. Since it is a music-oriented place, the brandmark design is in the form of a musical note that resembles a mouth.

MTV — Logo Animation

This is a motion design project which I chose to animate MTV's 1982 logo.

The original logo vectorized and layered in Illustrator, animated in After Effects. I added a vintage texture to create a nostalgic feeling.

Movie Credits

This movie credits animation is inspired by my character design "Queen of Spades". The elements are designed in Illustrator. The character was rigged and animated in After Effects.

2020 Dictionary

2020 Dictionary is a memorial card deck that explains some words that have gained new meanings in the year 2020. So that, users will remember what has happened and reconsider their preformed value expectations.

Combination of the visuals with the related words will make people reconsider their preformed value expectations to take the initiative to change their paradigm. This dictionary is a combination of print design and AR motion graphics. Thus it is appealing to the sense of touch, sight and hearing at the same time.