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On this page you'll find a selection of my recent work. The latest ones will be on top and more is about to be added at irregular intervals.
The entries are listed randomly and roughly sectioned in “WEB”, “PRINT”, “GFX” and “PHOTO”.
Under “WEB” you'll find websites and website design concepts. “PRINT” shows the whole print work that I've done, mostly under the main aspect of typography. The “GFX” contain some work like photoshop designs and graphic design works. And finally as you can expect “PHOTO” shows some of my photography work.

You can also see some of my work on my → Behance portfolio.

If you have any questions regarding my work, don't hesitate to send me an email.

 
Have no fear of perfection -
you'll never reach it. (Dalí)

 



PRINT / Self Promotional Calendar 2009

BORABORA CALENDAR 2009

→ Self promotional 2009 calendar (german language).
The colors represent the seasonal moods of each month.

It measures 90x60cm. You can download the fullsize version below (~10MB zipped).

BORABORA_2009_90x60cm


 

PRINT / BABO-Therapie Business Card

BABO-Therapie Business Card

→ Printed “BABO-Therapie” Business Card.

This work is featured at stationerystyle.ca and faveup.com.


 

PRINT / BABO-Therapie Stationery

BABO-Therapie Stationery

→ Stationery pack according to the developed corporate design.


 

WEB / BABO-Therapie Website

BABO-Therapie / StartseiteBABO-Therapie / KommentarBABO-Therapie / Galerie

→ A website for “BABO-Therapie”, a physiotherapist and personal trainer from Cologne/Germany. The whole website is kept very simple and based on a small accordion javascript. Lightbox was used for the image gallery. You can watch this website live at:

www.babo-therapie.de


 

GFX / Love & Hate Series

Love & Hate #1

→ This is my first work from the Love & Hate Series. More is about to come.
...Who can read it?

You can also save this image as high-resolution for using as a wallpaper
3000 × 2005px (size ~3MB).


 

GFX / hugo create

Hugo Create

→ This is a poster that I made for the first round of the Hugo Create Online Contest. Eventually it was one of the highest rated but unfortunately it didn't convinced the jury. The whole project was made in Photoshop, the cap and coevally the letter O, was photographed and retouched.

This work is also featured at stationerystyle.ca.


 

PHOTO / cross-process & vignette

Cross Process x Vignette

→ Photograph of a single leporello page in that new Cross-Process-Look with an edgy vignette. The whole leporello is also featured on this page.


 

GFX / watercolour brush experiment

Photoshop Brush Tryouts

→ Just playing around with some new watercolor and swirl brushes. Nothing special, just experimental.


 

GFX / Magazine Index concepts

Index Concept #1 Index Concept #2
Index Concept #3
Index Concept #4

→ These are some index concepts I made for my university of applied sciences. They are double-paged and each number represents the folio of the topic in the magazine. The colours werde predetermined. This pure typographic solution was made with Adobe InDesign CS3. Index #4 was finally chosen by the majority.


 

GFX / blind

Blind

→ Personal work on the aspect of racism. I guess everybody should build up his/her own opinion on this one.


 

WEB / Relaunch designs 1.FC Köln

Website Designs Relaunch 2008

→ Some website designs I made during my internship at the media & communication department of the 1.FC Köln (→ now Bundesliga), regarding the website relaunch 2008.


 

GFX / corporate logo concept

Bora Acemi Corporate Design Logo
Bora Acemi Corporate Design Business

→ Possible blueprints on my personal corporate design that I made during my studies at the university. It contains a wordmark and a complete business set of letter paper, business card and different types of envelopes. The whole set isn't printed yet... I guess I'll make some new designs on this one, so stay tuned.


 

PHOTO / dish mat

Red Dish Pad

→ Photograph of a woven dish pad with a light perspective shot.


 

PHOTO / duckweed

Lemna

→ Photograph of some duckweed on the water surface in the fish tank.


 

PHOTO / sweet frosty

Sweet Frosty

→ Photograph of my frosted car roof taken in the early hours against the rising sun. No filters were used on this one. What amazes is that originally the car roof is black.


 

PRINT / Avant Garde Gothic Typeface Booklet

Avant Garde Gothic Booklet #1
Avant Garde Gothic Booklet #
Avant Garde Gothic Booklet #3

→ A mini booklet on the Avant Garde Gothic typeface from Herbert Lubalin. I made this one as a homework project for the university. The booklet measures 15×15cm and counts 27 pages containing information on the typeface and its founder. Probably one of my favourite works.

This work is now featured on the legendary SMASHINGMAGAZINE who won the WEBINALE Online Awards!

→ UPDATE 5th December 2008: This work is now also featured on Typography Served.

Also featured on:
Bildirgec.org
Abduzeedo


 

GFX / mood magazine covers

Mood Magazine Covers

→ Cover artwork for a fictitous magazine that I made during my design apprenticeship. The concept was to build up a nightlife/lifestyle magazine that is published in several german cities, containing some features that are identical and some that are specific for the city.


 

PRINT / avant garde gothic typeface leporello fold

Avant Garde Leporello #1
Avant Garde Leporello #2
Avant Garde Leporello #3
Avant Garde Leporello #4

→ Leporello regarding the typeface Avant Garde Gothic I made for a project at my university of applied sciences. It is made of three DINA4 pages on each side. The images above show the cover and three of the inner pages. The parameters were the usage of just one font and the colours black/white/red. If you would like to see the other pages also, please let me know.


 

WEB / adrate concept website

Adrate Website Index
Adrate Website Konzept
Adrate Website Video

→ A website that I made for my application at the university of applied sciences. ADRATE is a website on which you can rate different advertisements from different fields like print-ads, online-ads and tv-spots. The whole project was build up in only 13 days. Dreamweaver and Photoshop were the applications that I used for this one.


 

GFX / bodyshop leporello fold

Bodyshop Leporello

→ A sample leporello I made during my design apprenticeship for a local fitness & bodybuilding gym. The photographs are stockphotos from a database.


 

GFX / packaging design for becks it!

Becks It!

→ My Entry for the Becks It! Online Contest. In the end I didn't post it O_o. The designs are for one sixpack packaging and the two bottle labels.


 

WEB / mood magazine website

Mood Magazine Website Index
Mood Magazine Website Music
Mood Magazine Website Mag Page

→ The matching website for the mood magazine. Fully functional, six-paged site with online download of the magazines. The images below show an excerpt of this project. It's been a while I made this project, table-based layouts and CSS only for the positioning of some elements. Photoshop and Dreamweaver were used to build this website.


 

PHOTO / Usak - turkey

Sokak / Usak / Turkey

→ Photograph of a street while the rain falls. Taken in USAK/Turkey. Picture is featured on Let's Take Pictures! under “MISCELLANEOUS”.


 

PHOTO / usak - turkey

Yurt / Usak / Turkey

→ A rainy photograph of a schoolyard among private houses taken in the city of USAK/Turkey. Picture is featured on Let's Take Pictures! under “MISCELLANEOUS”.


 

PHOTO / me

Self-Portrait

→ Self-portrait.


 

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