Philips
How To's

For this project we created several how-to tutorials for Philips customers to inform them about different Philips lighting products and how to use them as well as lighting in general. Our challenge was to make all these videos interesting and getting the desired information across to the customer in an efficient way. These 3 are the ones I specifically worked on.

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, Dusseldorf Creation: Daniel Wellschmiedt, Christoph Damanik, Bettina Biermann
Production: congaz dusseldorf
Creation: Danijela Indjic, Frank Olma
Producer: Ines Ludwig / congaz
Animation: Christoph Schmitz, Jakob Saretz, Umut Ozover

Type

Motion Graphics (2013)

Role

Motion Graphics Designer

Valentine's Day

A personal video project for photographer Ondrea Barbe. In this project our challenge was to come up with a visual language that would fit into beauty product industry as well as making the video seductive, playful and interesting.

Type

Film/Video + Motion Graphics (2011)

Role

Motion Graphics Designer + Editor

Directed By

Ondrea Barbe

Union Square in Motion

Union Square in Motion” is a public intervention consisting of two digital linear lenticular zoetropes that uses a person's own motion to make still images appear animated. It is comprised of 31 animations, 9 monitors, 9 custom-cut lenses, 9 modems, 1 router, and a laptop running custom code to loop the animations. This was a project that started as a collab and continued as an independent project. Our challenge with this project was to come up with animations that work well with the zoetropes and still be engaging enough to draw busy New Yorkers' attention as they walk pass by the installation. With the help of our producer Josh Spodnek we were fortunate enough to get an amazing space for our installation in Union Square subway station in New York and had the opportunity to make this project real and viewed by thousands of New Yorkers.

USIM was a semifinalist project at Adobe Design Achievements Awards for the Installation Design category in 2012 and also received a lot of attention from the media.

Type

Installation Design (2011)

Role

Co-Creative Director + Motion Graphics Designer

Flock of Birds

The song "O" by Coldplay inspired my to create that gloomy state of mind when we miss a person from our past.

Visually, I wanted to represent different elements; inner world, outer world; conscious, sub-consciousness and eventually a metaphore for experiencing life as a reflection of people and events around us. The scene sets a clear distinction between the elements yet the blurred lines and the prominent gray tones suggests a deep unknown as to what goes behind despair.

Password: monsieurœ

Type

Film/Video + Motion Graphics (2015)

Role

Concept Artist + Motion Graphics Designer

Six Feet Under

Remake of the title sequence of the TV show Six Feet Under. I wanted the title sequence to be generic enough to be suitable for every episode yet include characteristic and modern elements like the guy with the tattooed leg. I stayed away from objectifying the protagonist to put the viewer in his position and focus on, to me the most interesting part of the show, the interaction between the protagonist and the death people.

Type

Film/Video + Motion Graphics (2010)

Role

Concept Artist + Motion Graphics Designer + Camera + Editor

The Gateways
of Consciousness

A video installation project I've been working on since April 2015. Check out the concept presentation for more information.

Project Type

Installarion Design (2015 - Ongoing)

Client

Artist + Motion Graphics Designer

Origin Of
Symmetry

‘Origin of Symmetry’ is a photographic exploration of perception, in which viewers are invited to experience their own inner structure of intellect and create a world of their own imagination.Each image portrays a suggested alternative reality thereby creating a shift in perception between its parts and the whole. This photographic shift raises the viewer’s awareness of the power of perception and takes them on a unique journey of their own. When one meditates on the journey, one comes to wonder, “Is the world we live in right now the origin of the past, the future, the unknown; the origin of symmetry?”

Shows:
Open Call // Open Door, Group Exhibition | Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul (2015)
Brochure

Project Type

Digital Photography

Role

Artist

Kaleidoscope

At the end of Summer 2013, I worked on a submission for the Potion Collective (a brooklyn based art community)'s zine titled Kaleidoscope. These images are the continuation of that serie.
Work in progress. Please contact if you want to see more.

Project Type

Digital Painting (Ongoing)

Role

Artist + Photograper

Paradox; typically within logic

Series of digital paintings created by repeating the same image based on typically within logic; Paradox.
Work in progress. Please contact if you want to see more.

Project Type

Digital Painting (Ongoing)

Role

Artist + Photographer

Outlands

Series of digital paintings based on the photographs I had taked over the years during my travels.

Project Type

Digital Painting

Role

Artist

The Two Halves
Of My Heart

Concept: Once upon a time there was a love that was a product of light, colour, nature, dance and beauty. A love that is torn between two places, two hearts, two dimensions and two faces. A love that was built on foundation of chaos, pleasure and separation of sexes. Fed by sweat, it opened up parallel universes that gave birth to an unending array of spaces. Consumed by its own consciousness, expanded through all people and all things. Pain took over and killed all species. Ripped their auras and sent them to different places. It destroyed an earth, two hearts and many dreams. Ancient story of the end of most choreographies.

Video Collage. Found footage. Time-repmapping.
Password: monsieurœ

Project Type

Motion Graphics (2015)

Role

Concept Design + Motion Graphics Design

LANDSCAPE OF
BELIEF

I was hired by New York based multidisciplinary artist Monika Bravo who closely directed me to create the drawings and animations of the skylines of seven cities made out of the text of Italo Calvino's Invisible cities for her time-based sculpture Landscape of Belief (2012) . All images copyright: monika bravo, 2013

Project Type

Motion Graphics + Installation Design (2012)

Role

Motion Graphic Assistant

Word Games

These thought provoking "posters" are the result of my experimentation with print design. This on-going project is a quest to seek meaning movement, importance and questioning through the medium of graphics design and it's basic elements. I playfully combine minimal elements such as characters and shapes with language (which I have raised a new awareness since I started learning German) in order to induce transformation of 2D elements into an abstract form; an idea.

Project Type

Print Design (Ongoing)

Role

Artist + Designer

Let's talk about
death

Questioning our own existence and being curious about metaphysical subjects is a crucial part of self exploration. Borrowing ideas from the movie 'After Life'' and the book 'Büyü Dükkanı' by Yesim Turkoz, Let's Talk About Death is an interactive game/conversation opener that encurages people to thinking about their life experiences and the memories they collect during their life time.

Give it a try! ;)

Project Type

Interactive

Role

Concept Artist + Coder

02_09

Concept: Inpired by the the ideas by Godfrey Reggio's, a video exploration of time and how all creation came to being. The video takes you on a journey from atomic level to the vastness and complexity of current human civilization.

Video Collage. Found footage. Time-repmapping. Coding (Processing)
Password: monsieurœ

Project Type

Motion Graphics (2021)

Role

Concept Design + Motion Graphics Design + Coding

EPOCH

Concept: A music video for the song Epoch by one of my favorite bands Tycho. I wanted to capture the essence of the music by taking the audience to a patial journey through the stars. It's beauty, complexity and intesity are depicted throughout the video.

Video Collage. Found footage. Time-repmapping.
Password: monsieurœ

Project Type

Motion Graphics (2020)

Role

Concept Design + Motion Graphics Design

CYBORG_ENCOUNTERS

'Cyborg Encounters' had emerged from the readings and discussions during the 'Qualitative Approaches in STS: Cyborgs and Technobodies' course lead by Dr. Melike Sahinol within 2018-2019 Academic Year Spring Term at Özyegin University Design, Technology, and Society graduate program. Works at the exhibition are aiming to introduce the notion of cyborgs to the audience, by taking them on a journey through an imaginary cyborg universe. Referring to the literature in dialogue with the course sessions; each piece at the exhibition emphasizes the uniqueness and authenticity of the cyborgs' exis. tence with the agency of art and design practices.

Check out the group show presentation for more information.

QR Code. Illustration. Print. Installation.

Project Type

Group Show (2019)

Role

Concept + Artist

MONSIEUR OE

Monsieur OE is a persona that I created when I was in Berlin. The letter Ö becomes OE in computer written format in Germany. The transformation of my last name from Özöver to Ozover when I moved to the US and then to Oezoever when I moved to Germany was somehow representative of my personal transformation. This project is an homage to the spiritual person that I became during my three years in Germany. The images come out as results of meditations on different doctrines, philosophies, life views, religions and esoteric concepts and form artistic expressions. The black and white aesthetic represents the duality I felt both within me and outside world.

Digital photography. Photo Manipulation.

Project Type

Instagram Project (Ongoing)

Role

Concept + Artist