Sitcom Design

design traveler — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:26:03 +0000

A while ago I took up learning Turkish. Aside from being an unusual language with a quite different sentence structure compared to any other language I know, it has also been an eye opening experience in looking at another culture. Part of my self-learning method for getting used to the sound of the tongue is watching some interesting Turkish series on Youtube. Recently, I stumbled on a pilot episode of a sitcom called Nuri. It is a story about a hotel owner by the name of Nuri, who leaves his wife of 15 years for a younger woman. Actually the story develops from this moment on and is filled with amusing situations, misunderstandings, friends and family gatherings where everyone’s life seems to be everyone else’s business. The story aside, I couldn’t help but notice the interesting interior design choices, which resemble theatre decor and are quite suitable for the mood of sitcom. I would love to work as part of the team which takes care of the setting. I was impressed, so I made some screenshots.
Here is the kitchen setting in Nuri’s hotel. The colors are adorable and the environment so cozy and inviting.

This is the olive oil store next door of the hotel

I love the setting for this little olive oil boutique. One of my unrealized, yet, dreams is to have my own little restaurant and wine and cheese selling area. Looking at this, I think I would love this look.

And here is the front desk of the hotel. Notice the wall decoration behind the bellboy. Love it!

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design traveler — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:22:09 +0000

My favorite collectibles as a kid were chocolate bar wrappers. As weird as it may sound I don’t like chocolate. I was probably the only child out there who would take it out of the package and give it to my parents to eat. The wrapper, however, was another thing. I would press it flat and add it to rest in the box. I loved getting chocolates as gifts from my parents’ numerous friends who traveled abroad and always brought some back. That assured the abundance in my collection.

Occasionally as the collection grew larger I would take it out of the box and carefully arrange the wrappers on the table for inspection. I would view closely the pictures, the illustrations, the calligraphy and embossed typography. Every time I found something new to admire. Little did I know that years later I would go to art school to study textile and fashion design, then to college to study graphic design and latter on to advertising school to major as an art director. It seems that the chocolate wrappers were the beginning of my life-long appreciation of good design in all unexpected places.

As a freelance graphic designer my life is colorful and evolves around transcending and interpreting concepts and ideas. I find that subconsciously I look for beauty, creativity, good craftsmanship and unique ideas in everything I happen to stumble upon daily. From the way my food is arranged on the plate to the shape and texture of the rocks I photograph in Malta, I savor the world visually.

And it all started with a collection of chocolate wrappers.

Rocks, washed by the waves.

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