THECONESTUDIO
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01. What is one tool or effect that is essential to your design process?
My favourite tool is image manipulation in terms of hue,saturation and curves. I feel like they're a little bit underrated in terms of how much you can actually manipulate the image with only those two filters.
02. What’s your primary way of collecting found graphics, i.e. the internet, the street, vintage books,
magazine?
magazine?
Maybe not my primary, but by far my favourite way is going outside and just collecting everything I like on the street. Especially, you may notice in some of my content pieces, when I'm abroad on vacation, I'm just somehow always amazed and fascinated by different cultures. The street signs, graffiti, grocery shops, calligraphy, anything. When I was in Istanbul, I made three or maybe even four posts just straight off the photos I took during my walks. So yeah, streets is the answer.
03. What are your thoughts on reappropriating graphics, and what role does found imagery/graphics play in your design process?
So, since I became a graphic designer, I noticed one thing, that even when I was a kid, I had an attraction to good design. When I was a kid, obviously, I didn't even know what design was, but as I look back now, I always loved well designed characters from the cartoons, always loved the best looking, cereal packets you know?
it seems like there's just some throughline between looking at the roadside or looking at cereal packaging again. Whether I like it or not, I love to use those well designed forms, shapes or letters in my design. I can't define it in scientific terms unfortunately but it's definitely something from the bottom of my heart.
04. Do you ever recycle your own graphics or elements of them? Or is a graphic dead to you as soon as it’s out in the world?
Yeah, I actually do. And to be honest, when I started this 365 days challenge, when I first had familiar thoughts of using something I already made, I would stop myself from doing it because I felt like, oh, my God, this is cool, but it might seem like I don’t have any ideas! But now I understand it's totally fine. I love to play with the textures, like apply six or maybe 10 textures to one poster and then group them as one layer, And this one layer, I always, well not always but from time to time, I like to use it again for different posters to see what it looks like on different imagery.
05. What’s the last image in your camera roll of something interesting or unusual you saw on the street?
Oh, I have an enormous one, actually. A crazy one. It was raining heavily, heavy wind, you know, strong wind and I was just going home from university. I had my head down because I didn't want my face to be covered in heavy rain, and as I’m looking down I see this stick that is impossibly close to resembling Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
The little curve that looks like his curved legs, his arms stretched on the cross. Even when you look closely, his little, very little head, from the side profile, is even a little bit leant down, like he’s on an actual cross. And I kept it. I took it home, took a little care of it. It's still on my table right behind me. I still find it kind of unreal how it seems.
The little curve that looks like his curved legs, his arms stretched on the cross. Even when you look closely, his little, very little head, from the side profile, is even a little bit leant down, like he’s on an actual cross. And I kept it. I took it home, took a little care of it. It's still on my table right behind me. I still find it kind of unreal how it seems.