Mert Özel / Graphic Designer and Illustrator in Istanbul

Vitreus Glassware

2022Brand identity

A brand made from scratch: its name, logotype, packaging, posters and website, and the glasses themselves, designed and rendered in 3D.

Nesin Matematik Köyü

2023Rebranding

A new identity for the mathematics village: its initials drawn in triangles that also read as a rooster, carried through print and the web.

Sümer

2021Brand identity

Sümerbank, Turkey’s shoe and cloth maker since 1933, redesigned as Sümer, with a logotype inspired by the Sumerian alphabet.

Semt Pazarı

2021Album art

Logo, album cover and posters for Noterlikte İşim Var.

Love Symbol

2019Symbol design

A love symbol built from the integral sign.

First Gum

2021Packaging

Three packs for First Sensations, each with its own lettering and illustration.

Typographic Terminology

2019Typography

A book in Turkish on the vocabulary of typography, term by term.

Poster Designs

2023Poster design

Twelve posters, from an organic market to Mut-Zur-Wut.

Blue Jay Bird

2018Illustration

Brush-drawn jays, a pattern and lettering, brought together on a book cover.

Echoes

20223D

3D scenes of a glass spiral world, and a glass harp to match.

Captive

20233D and animation

A face caught in glass, in stills and animation.

Mental Disorders

2021Editorial illustration

Six editorial illustrations, each a psychological disorder turned into a visual metaphor.

Separation

2019Illustration

Line-drawn figures in neon colour and hand lettering, on black.

Dodecahedron

2022Animation

A figure and a dodecahedron of faces, in 3D still and motion.

Magus

2021Character design

Fantasy characters and the places they live, painted digitally.

Illustrations

2018–2023Illustration

Thirteen illustrations: digital paintings of portraits, figures and imagined places, and Radiohead as a deck of cards.

Artworks #01

2021–20233D, illustration and compositing

Standalone works, each built in Blender and finished by hand: some composited and layered, others drawn and painted over the render.

Water

2019Illustration

Nine portraits in white line and washes of pink.