NABA Summer Course

I have mentioned before that I have been in Italy, for a summer program: Visual Designs. I know, it is no more summer, but for those who want to go for summer programs aboard, I want to share with you, what we have done, during 2 weeks, in Italy, Milano, in NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti).

We worked a lot with our hands and actually we did not use computer. We used movable fonts (types) for the typographic parts and used pressing machines. We made collages, and then photocopied them to make our works monochromatic and also to make 'mass production'.

It was interesting because, nowadays it is not easy to learn the old way of making visual designs, so we had the chance to learn the old techniques. Besides, it was enabled us to think more creatively.

Here are the photographs that I took during the courses in NABA:

NABA's garden 

Our teacher showed us her students work, that I really like.

The first class! We cut shapes out of colourful cartoons and formed faces.

We made sketches before doing our posters for a movie.

We learned there a lot about pop-up books.

We even learned how to make the simple ones.

While I was working my poster for 'Moulin Rouge'. 

The result after I rolled paint on the mould that I cut out with stencil.

I painted the typographic parts with a little sponge.

Moulds and the result.

This is how we rolled the paint, which was a special paint.

They took us to a wonderful book shop in Milan, called 123.

Different works of our teacher's other students.

My pop-up card inspired by Duomo of Milan. The first one before ' mass production'

My collage work. I copied it with the photocopy machine.

The engraving machines.

Movable types, that we used for the typographic parts.

Books that inspired us.

Selin, while working.

Our teacher Claude's and her students' works

The machine that we worked with. It wasn't easy!

I choose brown and orange.

Mass production, although they all have different details.

I wanted to make all of their cover in different colours, which are bright, in contrast with the inside.

You can see one of the moulds that I used.

Selin Sargut's work: Milan's people. Aren't they look adorable?

She have took all of the people's photographs from the class to make her work.

Anne, had done a really good job, too.

Bigg and his brilliant poster work for Milan.

We had fun:)

New Year Preparatipns of Art Cafe

Art Cafe is a cafe brand that my mother and aunts both manage and design food/desserts  in Istanbul. (Levent, Çiftehavuzlar and Nişantaşı). I acctually wanted to share with you their new collection which is especially made for the New Year and Christmas, that were inspired by fairtales.

The collection is consisted of desserts which are cakes with snowmen, cookie houses, cup cakes with red roses, meringues that looks like pines, colourful macarons, eclairs with different designs...

The New Year collection for 2013!

Welcome to a colourful world!

Doesn't it look like Hansel and Gretel's house?

These cupcakes remind me the story of Snow White.

New Blogs

Nowadays I cannot write a lot for this blog, but I will, soon. The reason why I cannot focus on this blog is, because I have two new blogs, which I have to write for the courses in Sabancı University. One of them is a blog about designs and the process of the course VA 301 (course of graphichs): belminpilevneli-va301.blogspot.com , and the other one is a blog for history of visual communication: http://belminpilevneli-va312.blogspot.com/. You might enjoy them, because I enjoy, while I am writing:)

My Art Books

I really like to buy art books from every where in world. I have a little collection of colourful Art books. Some of them are illustration books and some of them are about art history or about Contemporary art, and Photography and they are all important books, that I recommend you to buy if you are interested in arts.

These are some of my art books that I want to share with you,

L'Herbier dea Fées

Here is Benjamin Lacombe's animation, which is fantastic!

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Benjamin Lacombe

Benjamin Lacombe is one of my favorite illustrators. I discovered his wonderful works in a book shop in Bergamo. He has been illustrating a lot of known books, at the same time both writing and illustrating his own books, like "Cherry and Olive".

His biography:
Benjamin was born in Paris in 1982. In 2001, he attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris. (ENSAD) where he pursued his artistic education. At the same time, he worked as an advertising and animated movie artist before completing his first comic series at the age of 19, along with a few other illustrated books...
"Cherry and Olive" became his first children's book and published in France by Les éditions du Seul in March 2006. The folling year, it was released by Wlker Books (USA) and nominated one of the top 10 children's books for the year 2007 by the weekly news magazine Time.
Since then, he has written and illustrated a lot of book. Also he exhibits his works on a regular basis.

This is Benjamin Lacombe, from his own web site: http://www.benjaminlacombe.com

A Bit More Bergamo

These monogram phototgraphs are from the view point of our hotel Alex e Angie, which I want to share with you, too. Actually these photographs are some kind of a summary for Bergamo's historical side.

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