05/05/2026
Moments from our 5th annual Porfolio Days!
Huge thanks to Petek Kızılelma, Furkan Şahin, Oğuz Can Yazgı and Burak Beceren for being with us and for their contribution by sharing their insightful feedback for the portfolio reviews! And, many thanks to our students for their attendance and showcasing their works ✨✨ .works
Photos by Ayşe Ecem Gözütok .gozutok
23/04/2026
Moments from yesterday’s Portfolio Review Day facilitated by instructor Z. Özüm Ak and in collaboration with PORTL. Stay tuned for the 5th Portfolio Days!
Photos by Ayşe Ecem Gözütok & Gülce Esin Yavaş .gozutok
10/04/2026
Our students' projects for the "Fashion as Message" Workshop led by Gülşah Kara (circular design practitioner) on this week's VCD210 Design Theories Course! For the project, the students were expected to design a poster that visualizes a fashion idea including garnment, accessory, runway image, wearable object or a fictional fashion concept in the scope of 2050 context.
Student works:
1. Basil Ali
2. Derin Görkem
3. Derin Nefin İslamoğlu
4. Melisa Uludağ
5. Enise Mendilli
6. Aras Bakırcıoğlu
7. Nehir Selçuk
8. Uğur Uğur
9. Sarp Baykan
10. Aydanur Subaşı
11. Eray Karaca
12. Fidan Yusibli
13. Sevde Sağır
25/03/2026
Tomorrow illustrator Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak will be with us for the lecture titled "Visual Narrative Experiments through the İstanbul Encyclopedia" as part of the VCD107 Interdisciplinary VCD Practices course!
02/03/2026
Many thanks to Serap Özyurt (Kadir Has University Information Center Manager) for sharing the original archives of Reşat Ekrem Koçu's İstanbul Encyclopedia, preserved in our institution, with us as part of the VCD107 Interdisciplinary VCD Practices course conducted by Instructor Zeynep Özüm Ak! 📜📖
Photos by Gülce Esin Yavaş
23/02/2026
Student works from VCD337 Advanced Photography Course conducted by Instructor Doruk Kumkumoğlu
1, 2: Life is Life - Uğur Uğur
3, 4: The Aftermath - Alin Su Tamdoğan
5, 6, 7: A Person's One Sided Contact with Life - Melih Sevinç
8: TextInfra - Emir Geçir
9, 10. 11: Batuhan Yavuz
12, 13: Chronos - Efkan Sakar
02/01/2026
Project outputs from the VCD431 Branding Design course conducted by Instructor Sabri Akın ✨
Throughout the course, students worked in groups on identity design projects for cultural institutions based on given briefs. Moving through research, brand strategy, visual strategy, and design development, they designed comprehensive identity systems and tested them across multiple applications.
The course followed an intensive, critique-driven structure, encouraging students to think strategically, design systematically, and articulate their ideas with clarity.
Congratulations to all students on their final presentations and the work they delivered this term!
1-2: Aydora Ersoy, Isabell Dörner, Yağmur Kılıç — SALT Rebrand
3-4: Cavid Mustafaoğlu, Esin Yavaş, Razva Tokgöz — Istanbul Archaeology Museums Rebrand
5-6: Alia Khouly, Deniz Kara, Gülseda Dabağ — Istanbul Modern Rebrand
7-8: Batuhan Yavuz, Sarp Saydan — Istanbul Archaeology Museums Rebrand
9-10: Zeynep Türk — Istanbul Modern Rebrand
11-12: Efkan Sakar, Feyyaz Metin, Mahmoud Tawfec Mahmud Al-Korom — Istanbul Archaeology Museums Rebrand
13-14: Mikaeel Khan, Parnian Mehraban — Istanbul Modern Rebrand
12/12/2025
Sound on! 🔊🔊 Our students' Mythological Character Design and Lip Sync projects as part of the VCD319 Motion Graphics Class conducted by Zeynep Özüm Ak 🐲🦄
1. Joshua Benjamin Eskinazi Pink
2. Sarah Mansour Mahmoud Mohamed Abozaid
3. Belinay Çavuşoğlu
4. Derin Nefin İslamoğlu
5. Sinem Leblebici
6. Nisa Koçoğlu
7. Sude Diken
8. Can Usun
9. Samed Can Uzuner
10. Pırıl Yağmur Kenan
11. Rewa Zureki
12. Ayşin İyiler
13. Eren Eryılmaz
14. Emir Bilgen
19/11/2025
Ferhat Akbaba and Eda Çağıl Çağlarırmak will be with us in this week’s VCD319 Motion Graphics course for “Talking Myths: Character Design & Lip Sync Workshop”
🗓️ 21 November 09:30-13:30
📍 B402.01 VCD Workshop
*The workshop is only open to students taking this course.
Design by Sude Diken
03/11/2025
Project outputs from the Emigre Fonts - Infocards for VCD209 Typography Class conducted by Instructor Zeynep Özüm Ak
1. Saliha Nisa Dereyurt
2. Şeyma Özen
3. 4. Melodi Yüksel
5. Ram Ghaddar
6. Fatma Beyza Erdoğan
7. Yiğit Aksan
8. Beliz Toprakçı
9. 10. Büşra Yayla
11. İrem Demir
12. Doğa Serra Çetin