Category: Community

Guest Curation #2: Our Rep in Turkey Posts His Picks

Gökhun Güneyhan, Behance’s Ambassador in Istanbul, Turkey, curates some of the best work posted on Behance coming out of his local creative community. More: http://beturkey.net


Abstract Landscapes by ugur eren
I’ve always been a fan of long-exposure photography, especially because it requires much more effort, time and patience. And no matter how many times I see a long-exposure photo, I can’t help but love it, especially those taken during the daylight. Ugur Eren, an art student and long-exposure lover from Istanbul, made a great photoset of the familiar spots of our city of Instabul.


Promat – 3D Video Mapping by Can Buyukberber
Especially in the last 2 years, mapping is one of the most popular ways of making clients happy and we see several new examples every day. One of them came from Can Buyukberber and his colleagues; quite impressive work for Promat, a leading company in printery. Mappings are usually done on huge buildings; where you have a lot of space to do what you want. Although they didnt have it this time; they succeeded to make it look great!


Evil Eye Font Design by Mesut Uğurlu
Mesut Ugurlu, who was featured on Typography Served recently with his first font family “Penis Type”, has just published the second font design with an inspiration of superstitions this time. The Evil Eye Pendant, loved by the tourists, is used to be protected from bad wishes for reasons of jealousy or dislike. “Nazar Type” is an inspirational work that may help the Evil Eye Pendant becomee more than a decorative object or an accessory.


Concept Cell Phone “Need” by tamer koseli
Tamer is a Swiss born Istanbul based member of BeTurkey, who has a powerful portfolio with inspirational pieces in several disciplines. His concept cell phone “Need” is one of them, which he designed to protest the way we use cell phones today.  You can’t play mp3 on it and it doesn’t have a camera; but it just lets you call the people you want!  You can say it’s not ergonomic, but it’s hard to deny its originality…

Introducing the Behance Campus Ambassadors

Meet the first class of Behance Campus Ambassadors. A few months ago, we asked students on the Behance Network to help us build and inspire our student community. Our Ambassadors promote Behance by hosting events on campus, meeting with faculty members and running marketing campaigns at their schools.

We encourage you to get in touch with your campus ambassadors to connect and collaborate. If you don’t have an ambassador at your school, reach out to us and apply to the program. Enjoy learning about our campus ambassadors below!

Luis Domingo, Parsons The New School

Luis hails from the Philippines, grew up in California, and is now at home in New York. He does not like to be limited to certain fields, but interests himself in the development of ideas and imagining possibilities.

Currently, he is working on his thesis animation in Parsons. Feel free to challenge him in any video game you want.

See Luis’s Behance Profile and Join the Parsons Student & Alumni Group

Steven Williams, The Academy of Art University

Steven Williams is an art director, professor, soldier, and husband. Steven has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University. Currently, he teaches graphic design at the Art institute of Indianapolis and is pursuing an MFA from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Steve believes that as an artist, one makes art that has a meaning or a purpose. That’s what draws him to advertising. A good advertisement is just like a piece of art: it has meaning and purpose.

See Steven’s Behance Profile and Join the Academy of Art Student & Alumni Group

Kevin Jan William Wansa, The Art Center College of Design

Kevin Jan William Wansa aspires to inspire and empower a new generation of freethinkers. He has worked with discipline on a number of music videos, short films, and Webisodes. With a keen focus he has a number of feature concept scripts, while working on pitching his written feature Booms. He currently studies Film at Art Center College of Design. Every new day validates the last.

See Kevin’s Behance Profile and Join the Art Center Gallery

Emma Bäcklund, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

At sixteen years old, Emma lived abroad in Italy and since then, she has taken every opportunity to take part in international interchange. To date, she has lived in eight different countries. Emma previously studied wild life photography and advertising in beautiful surroundings in Norway, and now resides in Melbourne, Australia, finishing her bachelor’s in advertising.

Her specialties are working with non-traditional advertising and design. She believes that advertising in social media should not be forced, but can be achieved through stunts in the public space. Emma can’t wait to hit the market as a freshly produced creative.

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This Week on The Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


Selection of Logos from 2010-2011
Proof that it doesn’t take anything too conceptual or out-there to win the adoration of you Behance browsers – just some solid talent. Here’s a logo-set, compiled over a year’s time, spanning everything from a Scandinavian Furniture Design to a Software Company to an Online Ticketing Service. And if you want more where that came from, the designer’s profile has plenty more “corporate identity” projects posted.


AngryFile
We’ve all been there – you’re under a time crunch, and manage to lose the very file you need to send off ASAP. AngryFile is a backup applicant to protect your files from “sudden disappearance.” The designers call the “missing file” the “angry file,” and have designed a clever logo to match. Simple and effective branding whose design matches the function.


Sailor’s Return
Here’s an illustrator who knows his niche. He makes custom artworks with tags like: Hot Rod, Pin Ups, and “Rockability.”  His tattoo-like illustrations hit on all the classic sailor stereotypes – alcohol, skulls, pirate ships. We respect an artist whose work is equally likely to end up on the front page of Behance as it is to get inked on someone’s skin!

We spy: “The Shameless Behance Guide”

We know we have some great Behance “agents” out there letting other creatives know about Behance, but this member may take the cake. Here’s a guide, “The Behance Shameless Guide,” that he created for his fellow students (and professors) in the UK to teach them how to use Behance to get a site up there that will get noticed.

A few choice quotes to give you a preview of what he covers:

  • “By being part of Behance you really are putting yourself in a global creative circle.”
  • “Uploading projects is so easy, a 5 year old could do it.”
  • “If your project cover doesn’t look interesting, nobody is going to view your work.”
  • “Eventually, you’ll have a breakthrough and your project will take off. This is a project I made that, because of Behance, is now on 20 websites and got me countless work.”
  • Think twice about what location to list: “Prospective clients will be looking in geographical locations to hunt out designers”


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TEDx – Making a Creative Meritocracy

Who should be the judge of the quality of work?

Why can’t the best ideas have the best chance of happening?

How do we make sure people do their best work?

Scott Belsky’s 7 minute TEDx talk touches on some of these big questions that are on our minds at Behance lately. In our quest to help more great creative ideas see the light of day, we think about “Creative Meritocracy” as being when the best talent and ideas actually get the most opportunity. In the digital age, with the tools we’re working with, this is more possible than it’s ever been before….

Hear Scott talk about Creative Meritocracy below.

This Week on the Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


CNN News Campaign by Hande Guler
 What if you swapped Anderson “silver fox” Cooper for Barack Obama in the news room? You’d get less laughing-fits, but you’d be getting news live from the source. This CNN ad campaign plays with this idea, swapping out reporters for global leaders. This series of ads took home the bronze at the Cannes Lion (International Advertising Festival), along with a laundry list of other awards.


The Bear by Ryan Sohmer
“There are many things I do not understand. But the digestive system? I get it now.” Here’s just one of the insights that the dads in this animal paintings series learn from their young ones. The series (which NEEDS to be a book, am I right?) is about “the bond that forms between a first time father and his son, and the discoveries they both make along the way.” One person said “made me puddle up, nod, and smirk all at the same time.” As this project received 1,769 appreciations this week, it seems to have brought all the saps on Behance out of the woodwork.


Illustration x Transparency by Man-Tsun
It’s always visually exciting to see a technique that we don’t get a lot of, and this “double plastic” technique definitely piqued the interest of our community this week. What it is: the artist made two slightly different illustrations on plastic, and then layered them. In his Hong Kong exhibition, many of them were suspended from the ceiling, to let the light shine through the pieces.

This Week on the Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


Life Below the Surface – An Underwater Art Exhibit
So maybe it’s not the most practical museum of all time, but it’s certainly exclusive, and definitely makes me want to get my scuba license. Since this summer, divers can benefit from a special experience and find a mini-museum placed on the hull of a reef seven miles south of Key West. The photos are encased between sheets of Plexiglass with a stainless steel frame to protect them, and attached to the ship with strong magnets.


Novum 11/11 – Making of Cover
This is no ordinary magazine cover. “In 48,000 passes and with 140 extremely detailed die cuts per magazine”  the makers of this Graphic Design magazine created a cover that is completely fluid – able to form new shapes, be bent or folded due to its intricate construction. The “making-of” video is extraordinary – partially because it follows the creation process from its very brainstorming beginnings, partially because of the impressive technical design, and partially because you can tell this team is damn proud of their work. The video felt a little bit like a Mr. Rogers’ field-trip video, for design nerds.


Fear.Less
First thing’s first: we love a good collaboration project between two Behancers. Daniel Ting Chong and Jordan Metcalf came together to create an exhibit of objects (hand made of wood and paint) that are representative of weapons or items used in acts of crime in South Africa, both by criminal and law. They playfully examine the place of fear and crime in South Africa – by scaling the objects and turning them into art, the artists try to force the viewers to reconceptualize the place these items hold in their everyday lives.

The Faces Behind the Most Visited Portfolios – Event Recap

Earlier this month, our Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Paola Dalman, hosted a panel event featuring four of the “most appreciated” Behancers in the city - a high honor in such a big pool of creative talent!

She described the audience, who gathered at the Universidad de Palermo, as “stunned and inspired” by the talk, where these four creatives (who shared an early ambition to be able to have a job they could go to in t-shirts and flip-flops) talked about their work and life stories. Here’s a short recap on what each talked about.

Lucas Davidson of Design Has No Name studio opened the event. He shared the process DHNN went through to become the studio we know today, and he talked about Behance and the steps his team takes when it comes to uploading project to Behance. It sounds obvious, but he stressed the importance of posting work you are proud of. Right at the beginning of the event, he brought up what would be a common thread in the panel, taking risks to get to your dream job.

When Jontahan Gurvit started out, he didn’t have a clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He had worked with his father, then in a hospital, and later was a therapist’s assistant. It took him a while, but he eventually found his niche at creative agencies, and went on to be in top positions at Saatchi & Saatchi and Oglivy & Mather. Having worked for  Coke, Pampers, and other powerful brands (while at Oglivy) has only made him more confident that there is only one way of doing things: with passion, being certain that what you do is what you love, and without fear of sharing your ideas with the world.

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This Week on The Behance Network

Here’s a look at some of the most appreciated projects and Creative Professionals of the week on Behance.net…


Whitescape – Corporate Identity
New development company Whitescape really loves what they do – so much so that they let it inform their whole branding. The design of all logos are inspired by the shape of data-stroage server rack. This set takes you through their thought process and final product on all aspects of the identity set – logo animation (which have a hidden meaning), color palette, business cards, USB, stationery.


One Life
Streetewar company “One Life” took their name to heart, and created a whole “musings of life” branding around their company. Scroll through the project to see some animated wisdoms, and then reach their extensive gallery of characters associated with the brand. We’re sold on this brand, and haven’t even seen a single item of their merchandise!


James Roper
“My work explores the heightened realities depicted in Baroque art and modern media to the restraint and release of energy found with the human body.” If you’re scratching your head, it will all become clear when you view one of these projects that will send your neurons into overdrive. Jump in.

Guest Curation: Our Rep in Turkey Posts His Picks

Behance’s Ambassador in Istanbul, Turkey, curates some of the best work posted on Behance coming out of his local creative community.


Georgian Portraits by Rengim Mutevellioglu
Kids and old people are popular models for any photographer, which at first made me pass over most of those shots. But when I looked again, Rengim had made a great set during her visit to Georgia.  I saw this project more than a year ago and at soon as I read her description, I was fascinated with what I saw. Somehow I felt I could read people’s eyes in her photos, and they reflect every word she wrote down.


Minimalist Effect in the Maximalist Market by Mehmet Gözetlik
A powerful design practice by a familiar name, which went viral as usual. Although some people are right to argue that the identity of a good is shaped by its package; Mehmet Gozetlik  had chosen globally known brands – and it wouldn’t be hard to recognize them on the shelf with their new look. Seriously, I would keep that Schweppes bottle for years. Read more →