ali's birthday invitation

Mirna was working hard in organizing an extravagant party for Ali's birthday back in 2009 and i offered to design a limited edition party invitation as a present. Based on a photo portrait, i pictured Ali on a "cheese" space ship traveling around the universe. We printed 11 invitations and bind them with green and blue wax ribbons for the guests to wear around their neck.



The party was a great success with a super cool birthday cake and DORA cupcakes for all the children!

PINK ISTANBUL posters

My initial concept concerning the PINK ISTANBUL event was to create promotional posters.
I therefore designed a small series using the muslim hexagon as my main reference.

The first two demo designs were consisted of that hexagon covering he figure of a roman wrestler.


The second two were based on an oil wrestling photo in the background, the symbol at the front and a disaturated form of the X and Y chromosomes that among other define the sex in a species.


Eventually we decided to go on with the t-shirt idea.

PINK ISTANBUL beautiful rejects

I designed around 20 variations of the t-shirt composition before Serdar and I decided on the final one.
Here are the most "beautiful rejects".

PINK ISTANBUL t-shirt

PINK ISTANBUL is a twice a year venue organized by CLUB PERA. The man behind the event, Serdar Manavoglou, invited me to design a t-shirt for their April 2010 event in Amsterdam.
The design had to incorporate cliches of the Turkish culture plus a gay-orientated humorous figure that would somehow flirt with sexiness and naughtiness.

I created a barely naked turkish "bear" delivery guy, surrounded with "walking" turkish delights, next to the moto "TURKISH DELIGHT - delivery guaranteed". The logo of the venue was placed on the left bottom side of the t-shirt.

PINK ISTANBUL decided to print 80 slim-fit t-shirts in various sizes that would be offered free during the venue at Paradiso Amsterdam.

KOMPAS POLITIKO website

Emiel van Wegen has being involved with the social and political life of Curacao for quite some time. At the end of 2009 he came up with the initiative to create a politically independent website that would, in a certain extent, "assist" the citizens of the island in making the right decision on casting their vote at the upcoming elections.
The website was built around a 25 statement set, in a form of a multiple choice test and resulted to a possible voting choice for the January elections. Of course additional research was recommended to the visitors but it overall managed to serve its purpose.
I was asked to work on the visual identity of the website (logo, overall website design) and though the initially demos had a more complex design, we decided to go for a more simplified version, where buttons functioned as buttons and navigation was accessible to even the most interactively inexperienced visitor. The web development was done again by Bananiotis and the survey by Emiel van Wegen himself and an external company specialized on the field.





The elections took place this month and though the test had to be removed, the website remains active.
Click here to visit it.

NIGHT ON EARTH posters

Most of the Night On Earth posters are designed by Costinho, based on "elements" I have provided the band in the past. I had the chance to design the poster for their concert @ Gagarin, their live sessions @ Alavastron and their spring tour in 2009.







Again several try outs were made to finally reach perfection. Here are my all beautiful rejects.

NIGHT ON EARTH t-shirts

Designing T-shirts for Night On Earth was one of the coolest things to do! The band decided to print two of my designs in three colors, dark grey, creme for guys and red for women. It's so nice to see your work being worn by people! In one of the concerts I've attended almost 20% of the audience was wearing a NOE T-shirt!




I actually worked on various designs. Here are the beautiful rejects.