I work with ideas,
words and images.
I am a communications professional with a creative practice. I develop campaigns, shape visual identities and make complex ideas accessible through words, images and digital experiences.
- Angle
- 0°
- It reads
- An anagram?
Six cities, one line of work.
The UN, the EU, a newsroom and my own studio, since 2013.
- Istanbul2013
41.01° N, 28.98° E - Ankara2016
39.93° N, 32.86° E - Toronto2019
43.65° N, 79.38° W - New York2022
40.71° N, 74.01° W - Amman2024
31.95° N, 35.93° E - Rome, now2025
41.90° N, 12.50° E
Drawn, posted, printed, filmed.
Campaigns, identities, writing, social media, tools and personal projects. Open a group, then a project, to see more.
Campaigns
Campaigns
The Climate Dictionary
An everyday guide to climate change that translates scientific jargon into plain language. It comes as a printed dictionary, an online book with animations, tied together by one illustrated visual theme. It grew out of a viral thread, has been translated into 12 languages and is still in regular use years after launch.
Role Concept, illustration and design
The Long Mile
A documentary photography series and exhibition following seven climate finance projects in Kenya, Morocco, Comoros, Mauritania, Uganda and Congo. The photographs show what is being built and the communities it serves, from farms and cold storage to clean water and waste systems. The campaign runs across its own website, press and social media, and an exhibition in multiple cities.
Role Concept and art direction
#DearWorldLeaders
A Webby-winning UNDP campaign that collects citizens' messages on the climate crisis and carries them to world leaders. In its second year I had the opportunity to design the physical spaces for exhibitions at COP27 in Egypt and the UN General Assembly in New York.
Role Exhibition design, video
Climate Action Explained
A YouTube series presenting scalable climate solutions from 12 countries on five continents. Introduced by UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, its four videos cover adaptation, forest restoration, sustainable energy and youth-led climate action.
Role Branding, art direction, dissemination
Women Who Led the Way
An illustration series portraying 20 pioneering women from a century of Turkish history, each drawn by a woman illustrator. Created for International Women's Day 2019, it was shown as an open-air exhibition on the outer walls of the Polish Embassy in Ankara.
Role Concept and production
#ReadytoChange
An innovative ASMR video for the EU Delegation to Turkey featuring actress Tuba Ünsal to launch Turkey's new EU-backed plastic regulations.
Role Project lead, producer, copywriter
Goodwill Ambassador Mert Fırat
The appointment of actor Mert Fırat as UNDP Turkey's first Goodwill Ambassador, marked with a ceremony and a short film in which he introduces the Sustainable Development Goals.
Role Celebrity management, producer, writer, director
Galatasaray partnership
A partnership with Galatasaray Football Club in which Syrian refugee children played alongside their idols, showing what sport and the private sector can do for refugee communities.
Role Producer, director
5 Out of Five
A series of short films for International Women's Day telling the stories of five women who overcame hardship to become socially and economically independent in different provinces of Turkey.
Role Project lead, producer
Branding & concept
Branding & concept
COP27, COP28 and COP29 branding for UNDP
UNDP's digital packages for COP27, COP28 and COP29, covering videos, branding and social content.
Role Lead designer
Climate Promise identity
The brand system for UNDP's Climate Promise, with its logo, content and design guidelines and a set of document and presentation templates.
Role Logo, branding, guidelines, templates
Climate Finance Dialogues
A four-day convening in Rome that brought governments, project developers, finance institutions and companies together to move African climate projects toward investment. Its name, identity and all of its physical and digital materials were created as one system.
Role Event branding, visibility
Below 1.5 by 2025: The Plan
The branding for an event at UN Headquarters in New York, attended by the Secretary-General and the UNDP Administrator, with participants from across the UN system, governments, Indigenous and local communities, the private sector and youth. Collaborated with climate journalist Sophia Li, who covered the event for her audience.
Role Event branding, influencer management
Monthly Promise
The newsletter of UNDP's Climate Promise, sharing monthly updates and insights on its climate work.
Role Initial concept and visual design
5 Young Leaders
Hand-drawn, animated portraits of youth climate activists, each one boiling a young leader’s work down to a single image.
Role Concept and illustration
Explainer illustrations
Twenty collage illustrations for UNDP Climate’s explainer series. With videos supporting them, they set a visual standard the team still uses.
Role Illustration
Editorial
Editorial
Rethinking partnerships to speed up Africa’s energy transition
An article on scaling renewable energy in Africa. It looks at partnerships built for delivery, targeted technical assistance, structured work with financiers and Italy's support under the Mattei Plan.
Role Co-author, with Jerome Sunday Salami
Without human capital, the energy transition stays on paper
An article in Italian on skills as the infrastructure of the energy transition, written with the director of the UNDP Rome Centre.
Role Co-author, with Agostino Inguscio
Climate Finance Portfolio
UNDP Rome Centre's publication for investors, presenting climate and energy projects in preparation in more than 20 African countries. It turns technical project files into a clear, readable format for finance institutions, investors and partners.
Role Writing, design, concept
Explainer series
A series that makes complex subjects understandable to people outside the field. Each explainer is paired with its own video and social media assets under a shared brand.
Role Branding and design
Report design
Field stories
Impact stories written and photographed for UNDP Turkey, covering hazardous waste, mining, organic farming, refugee integration, forests and volunteering, including Working for the Common Good, on Turkey's forests, which was shared by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Role Writer and photographer
Social media
Social media
Two viral @UNDPClimate threads
Two Twitter threads that went viral in the climate community, one on the climate actions that matter most and one explaining common climate terms.
Role Copywriter
Cassie Flynn’s TikTok
The TikTok account of Cassie Flynn, Director of UNDP Planet, with content made for the platform and her coverage from COPs.
Role Social media manager, video editor
Content creation for @UNDP and @UNDPClimate
Explainers and campaign posts written and designed for UNDP’s global channels.
Role Copy and design
Digital & AI tools
Digital & AI tools
graphicbase
An AI skill that designs graphics entirely in code, from social posts to posters, reports and print-ready files, so every asset stays coherent and on brand.
Role Design and build
UNDP guidelines as AI skills
AI skills built on UNDP's branding, co-branding and press release guidelines. They check work against the rules, advise on co-branding and draft press releases.
Role Design and build
Social media listening tool
An AI agent that scans the web and social media for coverage for the desired organization.
Role Design and build
Personal projects
Personal projects
100 Years of the Robot Cause in Turkey
A historical mockumentary that reimagines the Turkish Republic with robots as its actors. Every image was made with AI and refined by hand, one of the first Turkish works to use AI imagery as the storytelling itself.
Role Author
Appraising the Unwanted
My first solo exhibition: black-and-white portraits of the second-hand dealers of İtfaiye Meydanı, who keep a century of Ankara’s discarded objects in circulation.
Role Photographer
How it all connects.
Nothing I do works on its own.
- Ideas
- Words
- Visuals
- Digital
- People
- Communications strategy and planningConnects to Stakeholders and partners, Campaigns, Brand identity, Team building, Media relations, Creative concepts
- Creative concept developmentConnects to Campaigns, Creative and art direction, Exhibitions, Strategy and planning, Copywriting and editorial, Brand identity
- Campaign development and deliveryConnects to Strategy and planning, Creative concepts, Social media content, Video production, Copywriting and editorial
- Creative and art directionConnects to Creative concepts, Brand identity, Documentary photography, Illustration and animation, Agency management, Video production, Exhibitions
- Brand identity, systems and consistencyConnects to Strategy and planning, Creative and art direction, Graphic and publication design, AI production and tools, Creative concepts, Exhibitions
- Exhibition concepts and designConnects to Creative concepts, Documentary photography, Graphic and publication design, Brand identity, Creative and art direction
- Copywriting and editorial developmentConnects to Campaigns, Editorial oversight, Explaining complex ideas, Social media content, Creative concepts, Media relations
- Editorial oversight and quality assuranceConnects to Copywriting and editorial, Training, Media relations, Explaining complex ideas
- Explaining complex ideasConnects to Copywriting and editorial, Illustration and animation, Graphic and publication design, Video production, Social media content, Editorial oversight
- Media relationsConnects to Strategy and planning, Editorial oversight, Stakeholders and partners, Copywriting and editorial
- Graphic and publication designConnects to Brand identity, Exhibitions, Explaining complex ideas, AI production and tools, Illustration and animation
- Digital illustration and animationConnects to Creative and art direction, Explaining complex ideas, Social media content, Video production, Graphic and publication design, AI production and tools
- Documentary photographyConnects to Creative and art direction, Exhibitions, Video production, Social media content
- Video production and editingConnects to Campaigns, Explaining complex ideas, Social media content, Documentary photography, Creative and art direction, Illustration and animation
- Digital and social media contentConnects to Campaigns, Copywriting and editorial, Illustration and animation, Video production, Explaining complex ideas, Documentary photography
- AI-assisted creative production and tool developmentConnects to Brand identity, Workflow development, Graphic and publication design, Illustration and animation, Training
- Workflow developmentConnects to AI production and tools, Team building, Training, Agency management
- Team building, recruitment and managementConnects to Strategy and planning, Workflow development, Agency management, Training, Stakeholders and partners
- Agency and vendor managementConnects to Creative and art direction, Team building, Stakeholders and partners, Workflow development
- Stakeholder and partnership managementConnects to Strategy and planning, Media relations, Agency management, Team building
- Staff training and capacity buildingConnects to Editorial oversight, Workflow development, Team building, AI production and tools
Experience
- 2025 to nowCommunications LeadUNDP Rome Centre and UNDP in Italy
- 2022 to 2025Visual Communications SpecialistUNDP Climate
- 2024Regional Communications SpecialistUNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States
- 2019 to 2022Owner and Creative DirectorCosmo Creative Solutions
- 2018 to 2019Press and Information OfficerEuropean Union Delegation to Turkey
- 2016 to 2018Communications AssociateUNDP Turkey
- 2015 to 2016Foreign News EditorNTV
- 2013 to 2015Junior ExpertUNDP Turkey
About
I grew up in a house of journalists and creatives and spent my summers in a magazine office as a kid. I still think in narratives, where a story begins, what the picture has to carry, what stays with you once it ends.
Most of my work is translation. A policy debate, a financing model, a life changed by a project on another continent. I look for the words, the image or the format that lets anyone hold the idea. Every time I explain something well, I end up understanding it properly myself.
I write, draw, design, photograph and edit film, and lately I build my own AI tools. I wrote my master’s thesis on identity, and I suppose I never really left the subject.