My Story
Graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Interior Architecture in 2006. During and after his education, he worked in various architectural firms and focused on furniture design.
His seating system design called "Over" was included in Derin's 2006 collection. "Over" was exhibited at Milan Design Week and New York ICFF. In the same year, the designer was selected by Wallpaper magazine as one of the 10 promising designers from Turkey.
His clock design called "Frame," produced by Meyer Objects, was exhibited at MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland, and subsequently at the CID design and contemporary art museums in Hornu, Belgium. The "Telling Time" exhibition included 150 pieces from the last 500 years collected from various European museums and private collections. Frame was included in "The World Wide Things Collection," a collection of designs from world design capitals, and was exhibited at the "Universalmuseum Joanneum"museum in Graz, Austria.
In 2019, he won the "German Design Awards" with the same design. He was selected as the designer of the year in 2023 by Elle Decoration Turkey, and in 2024, he was awarded the sustainable design award for the "Flow" series he designed for the Circula brand.
He worked as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Kadir Has University from 2014 to 2018 and is currently continuing his teaching career at Bahçeşehir University.