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GRAPHIC DESIGNERÂ
Derin Nefin
I'm a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator. I move between structured brand systems and expressive illustration, always looking for the one idea that can hold a whole project together, then following it down to the smallest detail.
TOOLS
BASED IN
Procreate · Illustrator · Photoshop · After Effects · Premiere Pro · InDesign · NomadSculpt
Istanbul, Turkey
STUDYING
SPEAKS
Visual Communication Design & Digital Game Design (Minor)
Turkish · English · German
A few things I made
My Works
NEW YEAR ILLUSTRATION SERIES
A Make-A-Wish Türkiye Project
During my internship at Make-A-Wish Turkey, I designed a set of New Year e-cards around an unexpected choice: elves, the ones quietly doing all the work behind the scenes. There's a small story hidden across the three designs.
This is where my illustration work starts to move, hand-drawn characters combined with animation and sound design, mostly built in After Effects.
MOTION DESIGN
Video
HOSPITAL PROJECT
Mural
For the children's ward of a hospital in Ãœmraniye, Istanbul, I designed a series of murals running along the corridor, clouds and balloons, a rainbow catching a kite, a moon watching over sleeping rabbits, each wall different, all built from the same idea: hope should be the first thing you see. Of everything I've made, this is the work I'm proudest of.
I shot this editorial campaign during my Erasmus exchange in Wiesbaden, Germany, my first time working with a full team in a professional studio. Being in a different country, I wanted to bring a piece of my own culture into the project, so I built the whole shoot around Antic Art, a Turkish jewelry brand rooted in Aegean and Mediterranean design
EDITORIAL CAMPAIGN
Photography
Digital drawing is where I go when nothing needs to be for a client, just Procreate, an iPad, and whatever I feel like sketching that week. It's mostly practice, but it quietly feeds into everything else I make.
DIGITAL PAINTINGS
Drawings / Paintings
COCLIA
Branding Design
Coclia is a Ready-to-Drink cocktail brand I designed, born in Istanbul. The name comes from the Latin root for "spiral" and "snail," and the mark reads as two things at once: the brand's name drawn out, and a cocktail seen from above, the swirl left behind by a stir. One shape, a whole identity system built around it.
Honor Among Thieves is a cooperative heist-themed board game built around a simple feeling: the tension of pulling off a job as a team, where every choice has a cost. I designed the gameplay together with a friend, but all the visual design is mine
HONOUR AMONG THIEVES
A Board Game
ZODIAK
Specimen Design
Made for a typography course, this project had me dig into the anatomy of a typeface, bowls, spines, bracketed serifs, the kind of detail you never notice until you're forced to look for it. Four posters, one typeface, more than I expected to learn from it.
Thank You For The Visit :)
