Meet Beyza Çelikbaş | Graphic Designer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Beyza Çelikbaş and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Beyza, why did you decide to pursue a creative path?
I can not fully explain the direction of this. In my opinion, it is not clear when and where the artistic impulse will emerge in a person. It is very important to realize this. This instinct is certainly guiding. Even your perspective on life is getting different. For some people, art begins in the family, for others it is innate. My discovery of art in my career was a synthesis of the two. The driving force I mentioned was my family at the beginning, then spending time with people with artistic achievements has evolved my career in the context of art today.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?

I believe in working efficiently, not working hard in artistic studies. I started this job by discovering the places and time periods where I was productive in my personal life. Productivity leads to self-compromise when you work hard. Individual life is achieved by taking time for oneself. In my opinion, career progression takes place with the direct proportion between productive work and individuality. The thing that got me to my current position is my strong researcher side. I can say that being harmonious and curious while being managed by a leader in the team or when gaining a leader feature and managing it is my biggest motivation for working. Of course, being a researcher or working efficiently does not bring success. In reaching this point, I encountered a number of obstacles. The most comprehensive of these is that the design is a commercial element and gains a marketable feature. For example, in a production cycle, inputs multiply and become output. But in a design context, the output is a gradual reduction of inputs. This situation affects the motivation of the designer. This is where I learned a lesson. I discovered that there is a distinction between individual studies and commercial studies. As a designer, I found a solution to this situation by evolving my work according to its purpose. In the past months, I have done a study on the logo of the Matsu Professional brand, its packaging, and the marketplace images. When I started the job, my aesthetic concerns were at the forefront. Aesthetic concerns, on the other hand, created a series of obstacles for me. I have come to the conclusion that product design should gain functional features along with aesthetic concern. After this point, because my perspective has changed, I have removed the obstacle I put myself.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.

Since I work and live in Ankara, I take my best friend on a journey of civilization in Ankara. Our first address for this is the Anatolian Civilizations Museum. I want my friend to have the same feeling as me, as I feel myself in time travel in this museum, which carries the spirit of civilizations from the day Mesopotamia came into existence. After the museum tour, I have the opportunity to take a nostalgic tour and drink Turkish coffee in the sand in Hamamönü, a small silhouette of Ankara’s old and historical houses. I live in Ankara, but I would like to take my friend to Bolu, the city where I was born and grew up. Bolu is a city that is far from the density of buildings in Ankara and is integrated with nature. It is peaceful to watch the sunset on the shore of Lake Abant in Bolu. In fact, I would have made this one-week visit by taking a tour of two cities.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Inspiring people until now are a source of inspiration because they left a mark on the world. My art is inspired by individuality. I dedicate every work I do to my own uniqueness and I want to be one of the people who leave a mark on this world. Of course, I also have sources of inspiration. The most basic of these is Emin Barın in the use of typography, while listening to Maurice Ravel while focusing on my work makes me more productive. My family, who supported my artistic drive from the very beginning, is the biggest inspiration for my career path.

Website: https://beyzacelikbas.themulhelm.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beyza-%C3%A7elikba%C5%9F-503a67211/?originalSubdomain=tr

Other: Behance: https://www.behance.net/beyzaelikba

Image Credits
Yusuf Selçuk Batuhan Yılmaz Mustafa Aracı