Full portfolio / Mert Özel

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.

Identity

Posters

Booklet

Vitreus Glassware – booklet spreads: champagne and beer glasses

Vitreus Glassware – booklet spreads: wine glasses

Packaging

Vitreus Glassware – box for two red wine glasses, front and back

Vitreus Glassware – box for two wine glasses, a narrow tulip bowl

Vitreus Glassware – box for two wine glasses, a rounded bowl

Vitreus Glassware – box for two wine glasses, a tall straight bowl

Vitreus Glassware – the collection, every glass in a row

Glass designs and renders

Vitreus Glassware – a glass in wireframe, turning

Vitreus Glassware – beer, wine and tumbler glasses tumbling together, tinted red

Vitreus Glassware – wine glasses stacked in a tilted column

Vitreus Glassware – champagne flutes and beer glasses falling together

Vitreus Glassware – two wine glasses lying crossed, lit in blue and red

Vitreus Glassware – flutes and tumblers in a cascade, on cream

Vitreus Glassware – champagne flutes in a cascade, on cream

Vitreus Glassware – coffee and tea glasses in a row, tinted red

Vitreus Glassware – three champagne flutes crossing

Vitreus Glassware – tea and coffee glasses in copper-tinted glass

Vitreus Glassware – red wine glasses tumbling, tinted rose

Vitreus Glassware – beer and wine glasses interlocked, in blue-grey

Vitreus Glassware – wine glasses in pale green glass, crossing

Web

Vitreus Glassware – website, the catalogue of glasses

Vitreus Glassware – website, a product page for two wine glasses

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.

Identity

Nesin Matematik Köyü – cups, lanyard and badges

Posters

Nesin Matematik Köyü – poster, Eşikte Birlikte

Nesin Matematik Köyü – poster, Wittgenstein’ı Anlamak

Nesin Matematik Köyü – poster, Olası ve Olmayan Projeler

Nesin Matematik Köyü – the posters on a wall

Nesin Matematik Köyü – social media posts

Web

Nesin Matematik Köyü – website on phones

Sümer

2021Brand identity

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

Identity

Sümer – logotype on its construction grid

Posters

Sümer – the ‘Big Steps’ poster in English and Turkish, a hand holding a brown leather shoe

Sümer – the ‘Light Steps’ poster in English and Turkish, a hand holding a black high heel

Web

Semt Pazarı

2021Album art

Logo, album cover and posters for Noterlikte İşim Var.

Semt Pazarı – album cover, Noterlikte İşim Var

Semt Pazarı – the CD, printed with pink smoke

Semt Pazarı – back cover with the track list, pink smoke on black

Semt Pazarı – poster, the album title in pink smoke on black

Semt Pazarı – poster, the album title in pink smoke on white

Love Symbol

2019Symbol design

A love symbol built from the integral sign.

Love Symbol – the symbol, two integral signs crossed, one mirrored, in black on red

Love Symbol – the symbol in four variations, in red on white

First Gum

2021Packaging

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

First Gum – the three packs, in green, blue and yellow

First Gum – the three packs stacked together

Typographic Terminology

2019Typography

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

Typographic Terminology – Ink Trap and Italic

Typographic Terminology – the pages laid out

Typographic Terminology – Optical Size and Overshoot

Typographic Terminology – Spur and Spurless

Read the book (PDF)

Poster Designs

2023Poster design

Twelve posters led by type and image.

Poster Designs – Mut-Zur-Wut / Aktion Reaktion

Poster Designs – ‘Friend?’ over pink waves and dunes

Poster Designs – ‘Organic Market’ with vegetables

Poster Designs – radiating pink and blue lines

Poster Designs – ‘Protest’ in distorted letters

Poster Designs – ‘Organic Market’ with broccoli

Poster Designs – white line drawing on black

Poster Designs – Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life

Poster Designs – xy–xx=0: Even math has no problem

Blue Jay Bird

2018Illustration

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

Blue Jay Bird – a red jay in brushstrokes

Blue Jay Bird – a repeat pattern of red jays

Blue Jay Bird – a green jay in brushstrokes

Echoes

20223D

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

Echoes – a figure at the foot of a glass spiral

Echoes – a figure resting on the glass spiral

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.

Mental Disorders – Borderline: a red figure whose face splits away, coiled around itself on green

Mental Disorders – ADHD: a teal figure with whirling hair and four hands pointing different ways, on purple

Mental Disorders – Cotard Delusion: a dark figure clinging to a skeleton, on ochre

Mental Disorders – Dissociative Identity: several grainy figures, one in a bowler hat, merging into one body, on maroon

Mental Disorders – Paranoid: two pink figures, one clutching its head, the title in mirror writing, on navy

Separation

2019Illustration

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

Separation – a figure wrapped in pink lettering

Separation – a figure wrapped in lettering

Separation – a figure in green lettering

Dodecahedron

2022Animation

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

Dodecahedron – a figure cradling a dodecahedron of faces

Dodecahedron – the figure adrift in violet smoke

Magus

2021Character design

Fantasy characters and the places they live, painted digitally.

Magus – a sorceress with a staff in a storm

Magus – a floating island of giant mushrooms

Illustrations

2018–2023Illustration

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

Illustrations – a woman with pink hair and blue skin

Illustrations – a hand reaching through stone

Illustrations – a man in a cap and a striped jumper

Illustrations – a woman with dark curls and a red scarf

Illustrations – a figure with green hair in a dark dress

Illustrations – a woman dissolving into smoke

Illustrations – a woman resting against a tree in a forest

Illustrations – a house among pink trees by the water

Illustrations – two figures in cyan and pink

Illustrations – a woman lounging on a sofa

Illustrations – a figure in a pink forest

Illustrations – Radiohead as playing cards: an ace, queen, jack and king

Illustrations – a blue face with glasses and pink hair

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.

Artworks #01 – Puzzled, a kneeling figure in chrome

Artworks #01 – Mirror, a figure among glass shards

Artworks #01 – Causality, a sword in red

Water

2019Illustration

Nine portraits in white line and washes of pink.

Water – a face framed by wild, windswept pink hair

Water – a face with closed eyes under a smooth pink bob

Water – a face framed by long pink curls

Water – a face with long, straight pink hair

Water – a face with a jagged pink fringe and winged eyeliner

Water – a face with short pink hair swept up and back

Water – a face with loose, shoulder-length pink hair

Water – a face with wavy pink hair swept to one side