Elif Ara / Portfolio
Hi there! I am Elif Ara, MA Graphic Design student at Arts University Bournemouth, UK, new graduate architect, and designer from Turkey. I am passionate about visual design, art, and architecture; also a curious person loves discovering, volunteering, traveling, nature, and music. Wishing to improve myself in related fields in order to make a statement, leave impressions and set emotions to motions.
Contact:
elifara12@gmail.com 1907354@my.aub.ac.uk +4407897317481
Adress:
Studio 506, The Artisan 28 Bath Road BH1 2PE Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Social Media: Instagram: /elifaraa /maibidesign Facebook: elif.ara Twitter: elifaraa
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Computerized Presentation Techniques Travel Illustrations Minimal Illustrations Daily Illustrations Watercolour Illustrations Alternative Book Covers Urban Furniture Photography
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Project 1
Archigram
(April, 2017)
This project is the elective course under departmant of
Architecture, titled Computerized Presentation Techiques Advanced which aims to usage of computerized programs for representation of projects by integrating traditional and computer media.
On the semester long project, it is excepted to prepare a
single visual of whatever desired, in order to focus on three stages of computer aided presentation. -modelling: concept selection,actual model, detail in model -rendering: lighting, material application, polishing -post processing: color correction, collages, effects
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Archigram, Ron Herron Walking city on the ocean project. 1964-1966
Concept Selection: 3D Archigram What is Archigram? It was an avantgarde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was neofuturistic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects. Modelling: Detailed model is drawn in 3Ds Max. Rendering: After the actual detailed model in 3Ds Max, 3Ds Max Vray and Solid Rocks are used to finalize the rendering. Material applications, lighting and polishing are made in 3Ds Max. In order to have high quality more realistic image for post processing Solid Rock is used. Post Processing: Colour corrections, collages and effects are done in Photoshop.
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Rendering
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Project 2
Travel Illustrations
(April, 2018)
I am enthusiastic about traveling abroad, discovering
new countries, living in the cities like local people who avoids very popular tourist activities, meeting new cultures and people who come from different backgrounds and have a different point of view. I have traveled through 10 countries and more than 25 cities and met more than a hundred people. It is my lifelong ambition to discover and travel more.
I started to create digital illustrations based on pictures
from my perspective. As a graduate architect, I focused on relationships and cross-sections of buildings or landmarks and their surroundings.
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1. Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada 2. Street Sign, Ouebec, French Canada 3.Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
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1. Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland 2. Cliff of Moher, Ireland 3. Holy Mother of God Church, Yerevan, Armenia 4. Genocide Memorial, Yerevan, Armenia 5. Merzouga, Morocco 6. Meknes, Morocco
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Project 3
Minimal Illustrations
(May, 2018)
In recent years, minimalist design a well-known and popular style. It is usually explained in a way that minimalism is less a visual style and more a principle. A minimalist design is a design that only uses the most essential elements, including basic shapes and limited color palettes, to create something that’s very simple yet memorable. Minimalistic approach in illustrations for me the way to touch architecture and 2D design at the same time with the idea of re-interpreting the relationship between buildings and shadow, buildings and their exits.
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CAN WE JUST FLY AWAY?
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Project 4
Digital Illustrations
(June 2018- )
After deciding to develop myself in the field of
1. Touch it 2. Leaf Positive 3. Stay sane digital illustrations everyday. Rather than architecture and 4. Youth minimalistic style in design, I usually inspired by daily 5. Fly away 6. Happy Graduation conversations and habits and work on feelings. 7. Many bye 8. Everyone says good bye 9. Infinite Possibilities 10. Good to be two 11. Anxiety 15 12. Intimacy 13. There is no future. graphic design, I learned softwares and started to make
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Project 5
Watercolour Illustrations
(2017- )
‘Every design has a story’
Watercolour is one of my hobby, way to meditation for
me since my childhood. I keep working on water colour due to my willingness to hold on to early years of my lite, in which all borderlines are blurred. I discovered the possible ways of colour and hue usage with my watercolour palette. These products are selections from my personal works. All of these water colour illustrations have a story behind them. The tittles under the works aims to awaken the common feelings of human-beings such as love, hope, anxiety etc.
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1. Neverland (serenity, balance, loop..) 2. Blindlove (relationship, mindfulness, togetherness) 3. Crossroads (thresholds, discovery, 4. Good to be two (loneliness, surviving, intersections) 5. Infinite Possibilities (freedom, risks, dreams) 6. Seism (orders, systems, collapsing)
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Project 6
Alternative Books Covers
(April 2018)
It is a project, which specifically created for a graphic design portfolio. Books represent a unique world for each individual. I wanted to convey the world of these three books that affected my life through design. Selected books are timeless novels, and their books covers are designed by many designers in years.
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Project 7
Urban Furniture Design
This project is done in the elective parametric design course I took in the third year of architecture. Course aimed to teach softwares called Rhinoceros and Grasshopper which based on 3D modelling with codes.
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(April 2017)
User Profile: FOR BUILDINGS NEARBY THE SELECTED SITE
Student
Academic personal
Visitors
Personal
Selected site is mostly used by students. As gathering area for social activities on their spare time.
SELECTED SITE IS MOSTLY USED BY STUDENT AS GATHERING AREA FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ON THEIR SPARE TIME. Main entrance Entrance which is not using Primary circulation Secondary circulation
Human sound Circulation sound Human and Traffic sound
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Location: Bilkent University has a big campus area which does not have enough social gathering spaces even if there are many greenery spaces. Urban furniture is designed while considering to serve different user profiles
They are located at the back part of MA Building (known as
Business Administration) which has student council, many classrooms, instructor rooms, traffic office, cafeterias, workshop spaces. MA building is the meeting point of east, main and middle campus. MA building is chosen in main campus because of its strategical location.
Even there are too many bicycle riders in Bilkent, there
is no enough space for them to park their bikes. According to the survey that is made by student couincil, students were complaning about lack of outside space in campus areas. Urban furnitures are designed to solve these problems.
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Sitting unit 1:
Simulation of walk path Trees as referance
Division of surface with references
Walls as referance
Movement accorging to the walk path
Pathways as referance
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Interpolate curves create sections
Sitting unit 2:
Sitting unit 3:
Bicycle Parking:
Trees as reference
Trees as reference
Wall as a base
Point Charges & Spin Forces
Circles around reference points
Curves & Points coming from the
Points & Nurbs Curves
Random points on circles for
Curve attractors
Lofting the product
Extruding the product
Extruded on pathway reference
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trees
Top view
Sitting unit 1
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Extensions of bicycle parkin
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Site Model
Sitting units 2 and 3
Site Model
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Photography
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1. Yerevan, Armenia 2. Chefchaouan, Morocco 3. Sahara Desert, Morocco 4. Micro-photography 5. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan 6. St. Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy 7. Ankara, Turkey 8. Expo China Pavillion, Milan, Italy 9. Asillah, Morocco
thank you!