About Me
I am Denizay Apusoglu, a multidisciplinary designer who is fascinated by doing hands-on conceptual work. I am exploring the ways of being in the world, in communication with material and spatial relationships towards our needs and emotions.
My focus areas respectively are: product design, design research and digital fabrication. Experimental form finding, material expressions and fictional social interventions are the methods of my creative process to imagine new possibilities.
Living and working in the countries with different cultural backgrounds helped me develop a critical conscious thinking and quickly adapt and react on new situations. Moreover I’ve had the privilege to be amongst driven and creative people.
I live in Zürich, work as an industrial designer at Geberit and currently laying the foundations of Studio Eidola with Jonas Kissling. I am always willing and eager to create and collaborate!
2020 Studio Eidola, Zürich Switzerland
2020 Industrial Designer at Geberit International, Zürich Switzerland
2019 ETH Zürich Rapid Prototyping Lab, Switzerland
2019 Masters Degree 'Design and Technology Futures' from Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn Estonia
2018 Product design internship at Mendel Heit Design Lab, Berlin Germany
2017 Exchange Semester in 'Industrial Design' at ENSCI - Les Ateliers, Paris France
2016 Graphic design internship at Brand.new, Athens Greece
2015 Bachelors Degree 'Industrial Engineering' from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul Turkey
Exhibitions
2019 June / Tallinn, Estonia
EKA Graduation Show
2017 February / Paris, France
Tartaix Métaux Outillage
2017 November / Tallinn, Estonia
for Estonian Ministry of Environment
Recycling Week Installation
2016 September / Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn Design Night Festival
Hüpe/Hype Exhibition
2016 September / Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn Design Night Festival
Student Projects Exhibition in Kino Helios
2016 June / Tallinn, Estonia
Tali Design Shop
Workshops
2018 / Viljandi Estonia
Wood and Design
2018 / Tallinn Estonia
Clay 3D Printing
2018 / Herring Denmark
BaltSeanior EU Regional Development Fund
Herring Life&Design Cluster
Furniture for Elderly
2018 / Tallinn Estonia
Design in Challenging Environments
with NASA
2018 / Vilnius Lithuania
CIRRUS workshop with Aalto University
Urban Gaming
2017 / Poznan Poland
BaltSeanior EU Regional Development Fund
Furniture Renovation
Awards
2019 / Tallinn City Enterprise Awards
The Best Applied Research
“A Responsive Cutlery Concept: behavioral intervention for normalising problematic eating behavior”
Awards
2019 / Tallinn City Enterprise Awards
The Best Applied Research
“A Responsive Cutlery Concept: behavioral intervention for normalising problematic eating behavior”