Department of Communication Design

The short documentary “Things I Learned at 30” directed by Res. Assist. Sezer Ağgez, our faculty member from the Department of Communication and Design, has been selected as a finalist at the 19th Boston Turkish Film Festival. This year, 16 documentary films will compete for the first prize at the festival, which will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, between November 23 and December 6, 2024.

The Department of Communication and Design organized an interview with Tunca Zeki Berkkurt, one of the few board game designers in Türkiye, whose latest game İnkılâp is on sale after two different board games named İhtilal and İttihat, on Wednesday, May 15 at 15.00 at the Design Factory in our Bakırköy campus Ataköy building. Berkkurt shared his personal experiences and observations on his introduction to board games, game spaces and groups in Türkiye, as well as his experiences on the financing of his latest game, its visual design and the design process of the playing mechanics.

A  trip was organized to the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts (İMOGA) on Tuesday, May 14 in cooperation with the Department of Communication and Design and the Department of Communication Arts, accompanied by our Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Üstünipek. After Prof. Dr. Mehmet Üstünipek's explanations on Contemporary Turkish Art, our students toured the museum collection and had the opportunity to meet the founder of the museum, educator and artist Süleyman Saim Tekcan.

Students of the Department of Communication and Design as part of the 2023-2024 Spring Semester "İTB Technical Tours", they visited the "Now in Digital Art: Game Room" exhibition at Aksanat on Friday, May 10. Students attending the event received information about the exhibition under the guidance of our graduate Elif İkbal Yıldız and discussed examples of the intersection of Contemporary Art and the world of computer games. Students, who also experienced the games included in the exhibition at Aksanat, also had the opportunity to watch a movie (Machinima) produced with game tools.

Department of Communication and Design met with academician Dr. Murat Uluk on Thursday, May 2, within the scope of "İTB Art Workshops" events. Following a presentation about the basic concepts, techniques and current trends in web design, a workshop was held on the different stages of creating a comprehensive website and basic web development languages such as HTML and CSS. The issues of designing user-friendly, visually appealing and mobile-friendly websites were discussed at the event.

Director Hasan Ete was the first guest of the "Türkiye Cinema Talks" event series organized by the Department of Communication and Design in the 2023-2024 Spring Semester. The event, which was held on Wednesday, March 27 in the 1st floor multi-purpose seminar hall in the Ataköy building of Bakırköy campus, started with the screening of Ete's documentary "Good Death" in Rotterdam-Netherlands. Making statements about film production and short documentary production management abroad, Ete also answered the questions of our students.

The Department of Communication and Design students met with Illustrator & Graphic Artist Dr. Yeşim Paktin on Monday, March 25th as part of the "ITB Art Workshops". After a conversation about the areas in which illustration is used, the techniques used to produce it, different styles and printing processes, the students completed the workshop by designing the cover of a literary book they chose from world classics with the guidance of Paktin.

In the first event of the 2023-2024 Spring Semester of the ITB technical trips, the students of the Department of Communication and Design and the Department of Culture and Arts Management, accompanied by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Üstünipek, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, visited the exhibition "A Forgotten Woman of the Republic: Melek Celal in All Her Aspects" exhibition at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum on Tuesday, March 19.

Research Assistant from the Department of Communication and Design Sezer Ağgez's documentary film project "40 Years After Fatma", supported by the T.R. Ministry of Culture and Tourism, became a finalist at the 42nd Istanbul Film Festival, one of the oldest film festivals in Türkiye. Tickets for the film, which will be screened at CineWAM City's Nişantaşı on Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 19.00, and at Sinematek/Sinema Evi on Friday, April 14, 2023, at 19.00, as one of the nominees for the "National Documentary Film Award", will go on sale on Friday, March 31, 2023.

Faculty of Art and Design Department of Communication and Design Lecturer Res. Assist. Sezer Ağğez’s film named “40 Years After Fatma” and Department of Communication and Design 2020 alumni Kadir Can Arabacı’s “Three Army” project are finalists of the 33rd Ankara Film Festival to be held on 3-11 November 2022, in the category of “National Documentary Film.”