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January 13, 2011
In Doodles&Noodles, imago
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Art out of Trash out of Design out of Art

Now, that’s some recycling! Recently, with the introduction of helloimago.com we have designed some new business cards for the studio. While the front of the cards is always the same, we designed over 40 different variations of the reverse, using the letter “o” from our logo and Cigdem’s paintings to create a series of colorful, abstract visuals.

As usual, we used Moo.com to do the prints. Unfortunately we were not aware that they have recently changed they paper stock and ended up with a large box full of cards we did not want to use. (Just to make things clear, we ordered another batch, printed on another paper and these turned out fantastic!)

While the prints were useless as business cards, it would be the shame to simply throw them away – using a spray mount, some cardboard and an old IKEA frame I decided to put them together as a collage. You can see the result after the break.

Mona Lisa Revisions

I found this one on a Turkish t-shirt site geyikadam.com. It is so spot-on, that I decided to translate it into English and share with you all.

If you have ever worked on a commercial design project, you should get a good laugh out of it.

July 26, 2010
In Doodles&Noodles, Motion
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Yo dawg, I heard you like compositing charts…

I usually like to build my compositions vertically, placing most of the data in a single timeline. It works most of the time, although sometimes results in skyscraper monstrosities like the nearly 1000 layer project I talked about a while back.

The ad I am working on right now required a different approach. I had to create pre-comps of pre-comps of pre-comps of some more pre-comps, constantly burying and digging up various elements. A timeline screenshot would not do it much justice, so I decided to share with you the flowchart view of the project.

May 20, 2010
In Doodles&Noodles
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Big Hair Stop

And thus concludes the Doodles&Noodles bonanza started on February 17th with this post. For the past three months you were presented a new sketch every other day. Right now I run out of scans so we end these regular updates until I get my crap together and draw something new.

If you expected something special, fireworks, maybe a musical performance – sorry to disappoint. Just a guy with big hair waving his hand and trying to stop something.

Lil Prince, or What

Yet another example of doodled character’s unflattering commentary over being drawn to life. This one is from 2001.

Liquid Mask

A carnival mask drawn in a veiny, black-and-white style I like to refer to as “liquid”. Pretty old, too. All the way from 2001.

Graffiti Guy

A guy with a spray can. Most likely about to write a graffiti. Less likely trying to kill some bugs. Much less likely helping a friend apply some shaving cream.

q3c Logo, Hooker & Stuff

Trust me, this one makes as little sense to me as it does to you. I don’t think there is any connection.

Head out of Square

Something a little more light-hearted today… drawn in 2003.

May 9, 2010
In Doodles&Noodles
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Sushi Nights

A friend of mine runs a great bar in Istanbul, where we like to hang out with our friends and business associates. Every Wednesday they have a Sushi Night – serving pretty much the best Japanese food in town.

Below are two e-mail invite banners I made for the most recent Sushi Nights. In the first one I used SplatterType to generate an abstract sushi graphic. In the second – I used mad illustration skills of Cigdem to generate the happy human :)