Design: Combining natural materials available on earth in a smart way to create a new industrial product.
Good Design: "Right solution at the right time"
"Goodness" lays the foundations of a good design.
Think about "sea" as people, stone as "product" and skipping of a stone over the sea as "art".
Design: "A stone preserving the traces, fossils and layers it had at the moment it was discovered on the beach, thrown parallel to the sea with the goal of throwing to the furthest point possible and skiping in a specific way in the sea, the more it skips, the further and deeper it goes and meets with the nature, the better"
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2016- “WALL” ICONIC Awards 2016 INTERIOR INNOVATION Winner-Germany
2015- “WALL” Architizer A+ Internatıonal Design Awards Finalist-USA
2015- “WALL” IF Design Awards-GERMANY
2014- “WALL” Best Of year winner INTERIOR DESIGN
2014- “WALL” IDSA Internatıonal Design Excellence Awards 2014 Finalist
2014- “My Afrodite” Contemporary Istanbul- ARMAGGAN ART &DESIGN GALLERY -TURKEY
2013- “Hipermetrop” Contemporary Istanbul- ARMAGGAN ART &DESIGN GALLERY -TURKEY
2013- “Grass V2”Contemporary Istanbul- ARMAGGAN ART &DESIGN GALLERY -TURKEY
2013- “Creativity Without Limits”-ARMAGGAN ART &DESIGN GALLERY-TURKEY
2013- “Design Sprit”-Istanbul Design Week-IDW Exhibition-TURKEY
2013- “LIT” Designpreis Deutschland 2013 Nominee-GERMANY
2012- “LIT” Good Design Awards-GERMANY
2012- “BUK” Good Design Awards-GERMANY
2012-“White Hole” States of Material - ARMAGGAN ART &DESIGN GALLERY –TURKEY
2012-“40 Design and Designer” Exhibition-Mimar Sinan University-TURKEY
2011-“Istanbul Alphabet”-Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge BERLIN-GERMANY
2011-“Line” was purchased by MARTA Herford Museum for their permanent collection.-GERMANY
2011-“Dance with Colors” Exhibition-ADDRESISTANBUL-TURKEY
2011- “Everything became sketching” Exhibition-Tasarım Parkı-TURKEY
2010-“The Nature of the Design” Exhibition- ADDRESISTANBUL-TURKEY
2010- “SPAGAT” EXHİBİTİON-MARTA Herford Museum-GERMANY
2010-“LIT” Design Turkey Industrial Design Best Design Award-TURKEY
2010-“Line” Designpreis Deutschland 2010 Nominee-GERMANY
2010-“BE SINCERE” I-DECO Design Exhibition-TURKEY
2010- “Under 40” Design Sprit-IDW Exhibition-TURKEY
2010-“BE SINCERE” Exhibition-ADDRESISTANBUL-TURKEY
2009-“Conflux””Kesişme Noktası” Exhibition -ARK KULTUR -TURKEY
2009- IMMIB Exhibition TURKEY -Frankfurt-GERMANY
2009- I-DECO Design Exhibition-TURKEY
2008- ICFF Furniture Fair New York -Aykut Erol DESIGN-USA
2008- Milano Furniture Fair –Zona Tortona-Aykut Erol DESIGN-ITALY
2008-“ilkin Milano”-Turkish Touch in Design Milano –Zona Tortona –ITALY
2008-“LINE” Good Design Awards-GERMANY
2007Istanbul Design Week-IDW Exhibition-TURKEY
2007- Best Stand Design Award -First Prize -YEM-TURKEY
2006-“Line” Design of the year Award-Istanbul Design Week-TURKEY
2006-Istanbul Design Week-IDW Exhibition-TURKEY
2006-“Grass V1”Istanbul Street Design Week-TURKEY
2005-Marketingist Fair Exhibition-TURKEY
2005-IMMIB Professional First Prize Award-TURKEY
2004-A-Design Fair 2004 Exhibition-TURKEY
2004-Accessory Design- Alessi-Domus Academy-ITALY
2003-Furniture Design-Magis-Domus Academy-ITALY
2003- A-Design Fair 2003 Exhibition-TURKEY
2003-Best Stand Design Award –YEM-TURKEY
2002-Coffe Maker Design - Alessi-Domus Academy-ITALY
1996-Divan Chair Project- MSU-Pratt Institute-TURKEY
1994-Ministry of Culture Achievement Award-TURKEY
1994-Wheels Cultural Center-Designers Odyssey Design Award-TURKEY
1993-Water-Friendly Toılet seat Award-ISKI-TURKEY
1993-Mimar Sinan University Industrial Product Design Achievement Award-TURKEY
About Aykut Erol
About Aykut Erol Born in 1972, the designer graduated from Industrial Product Design Department of Mimar Sinan University. Later that he attended courses to Domus Academy and NABA in Italy. Aykut Erol participated in many national and international events, and has been continuing his studies in his office bearing his own name for almost 18 years. "Sincere" , simple ,environmentally sensitive, accessible trace of products that designers Aykut Erol has been cleverly constructed to create a furniture system which has a single continuous metal wire in the line furniture and accessories into the "Line" furniture concept. Aykut Erol took part in many international publications. With the “Line Series” he designed, “The Most Successful Design of the Year” award in “Istanbul Design Week 2006 ”and he won Good Design Award 2008 . Line was also nominated for a designpreis Deutschland by 2010the German Design Council. In 2011 Line was purchased by MARTa Herford Museum for their permanent collection.
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“Sincerity of feeling, intent and presentation touches the hearts of everyone. But what exactly defines sincerity? And how do you achieve it? No other formula exists for sincerity than to be sincere by being genuine, having faith, and just being rather than trying to project something that you are not. Material neediness destroys the ability to be sincere because your focus is always on protecting your possessions and aiming to accumulate more instead of looking outwards into the human community around you and perceiving the ways in which you can add substance to it through the goodness of your heart.”