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Education
Skills
Middle East Technical University Department of Industrial Design C.GPA : 2.66 / 4.00 GPA : 2.93 / 4.00
Computer Skills
2006-2010 Bafra Anatolian High School GPA : 91.5 / 100
Rhinoceros Autodesk 3DMax Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Keyshot Sony Vegas Pro Video Editing Unity Game Engine
Technical Skills
Model Making Freehand Sketches Digital Drawing
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Gülnihal KARACA (+90) 541 466 82 91 gulnikaraca@gmail.com
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Language Skills
Turkish - Native English - Advanced Italian - Intermediate German - Beginner
Idea Generation
pianeta Sustainable food packaging with double life
2015
DRIED FRUITS FOR KIDS
Idea Generation
Product Details In the Supermarket
Pianet is a kind of dried fruits package with double life. It turns into a play material for kids by virtue of creases that it have after eating the food inside.
Usage Scenario
Hold the green parts of the package
Glue the edges and paste
Open it
Press the creases
Tear the edges of the package
It is new mobile toy for your kids. Collectible, trainer and fun!
Post-Use : Play Material The Planets Mobility
Each planet gives informations about itself. This helps kids to learn the solar system.
MIMOSA Sustainable Design Scenarios Rethinking Bathroom Sink Faucets
2015
Problem Denition
Biomimicry Inspiration
Cross handle faucets cause wastage while adjusting temperature of water. Usually, people are faced with the problem of excessive water ow while ďŹ rst tapping. Slippery handles may cause problems while tapping. Hot water adjustment should be out of reach of children.
Idea Generation
Arrangement of Leaves Folding Leaves The Form of Leaves Touch Sensitive Plant
Model Making
Design Details Separate Water Flow and Temperature Controller Ease of Cleaning Easy to Use Decreasement of Hot Water Usage Temperature Indicator
60 Degree The Highest Flow
The Highest Flow and Temperature
Usage Scenario
Temperature Adjustment Water Flow Adjustment
20 Degree Turned Off
MUSIC STATION #occupyAlley: Sustainable Scenarios for Metu Campus Gülnihal KARACA Kadir Uruç Barış BUMİN Kaan YAŞA
2015
Problem Denition How can we encourage collective music activities while making various instruments easier to access? By creating an instrument library, we increase the accessibility, and render it possible for music educations.
Scenarios
Necati comes across a student playing bağlama, at Physics field’s music area, and sits next to him. Meanwhile, he gets informed about Music Station and where to obtain an ınstrument.
Necati who wants to take interest in music in his leisure time, visits the instrument library nd regiters himself for clarinet lesson.
Berkcan who is also using the instrument library as Necati, volunteers to teach Necati how to play clarinet and together they practice with the rental clarinets from the library, in their leisure times.
After getting better at playing clarinet Necati starts renting a clarinet from the library in his leisure time in return for his identity card, and he donates a little amount of money occasionally o the donation box.
With his friends who met thanks to the Music Station and plays various instruments. Necati goes to the Architecture Faculty to perform with them having pleasant time.
The donations made by Necati and others who uses the library as him, are used for buying new instruments for the library and/or used for repairing and maintining the old instruments.
METU BAZAAR
#occupyAlley: Sustainable Scenarios for Metu Campus Gülnihal KARACA Kadir Uruç Barış BUMİN Kaan YAŞA
Phase I 2015
Problem Denition How can we encourage more people to take part in the conducted collective activities? By rendering a collective bazaar enabling the people who join these activities to display and sell their products.
Scenarios
Ali and Ayşe who do not have any information about clus and activities on campus stop by Çarşı to get informed about them after seeing about workshops on the wall.
After getting information about clubs and activities Ayşe participate t-shirt design and Ali participate gardening workshop.
After registering, they participate workshops in certain days. After getting educated, Ali starts gardening and Ayşe starts designing t-shirts.
After working, they make new products and designs after that they started to wait for bazaar.
In METU Bazaar, while workshops and exhibitions take place. the created products are sold at the same time.
In METU Bazaar, while peope have interaction with each other and learn something new, they find opportunity to gain access to rarely found products.
MAZE Design solutions that inspire collective creativity and environmental awareness on METU Campus.
Phase II 2015
Moodboard
Idea Generation
Mock-ups
Design Details Ropes are streched between the wooden parts of the products. Thanks to ropes, people can exhibit their posters, poems and works of art.
It can be organized diversely.
Scenarios
Necla arrives to the C Statue to exhibit the painting she drew before.
AyĹ&#x;e wanted to roll the unit that she used as a bazaar stand back before.
When she spotted a free area she started to organize her exhibition stand.
She removed the extra part to reduce the height of the stand.
Then she hung the strings and placed her painting on them for people to display.
Then she used this stand as a seat.
Night Use
Waste Management
The lighting units are illuminated when the night environment allows.
Wastes are thrown into the thrash for different materials.
Daily Use
METU Bazaar
METU Club Meetings
rest Outdoor seating unit which is designed for METU Architecture Faculty Gülnihal KARACA Yağmur Kılıç Didem Toker
2013
Design Process
Citrus juicer for a family of four
2012
Product Details Porti is a citrus juicer which has 4 glass for a family of four. It has modular parts which are available for dishwasher.
The work principle of handle part provide us to squeeze 2 oranges at the same time.
The container parts are also for using as a glass which enables us to clean them easily after using.
Xadrez Chess Set
2011
Video Production
2014
Footsteps of Pattern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-FYES7cmw
A documentary film about a design piece, inspired and produced by a traditional craft.The design of the product, the original idea and the synopsis of the film belongs to the designer herself: Özlem Yalim Özkaraoğlu. The film focuses on an arts and crafts field which is about to perish in time. The designer aims to reconsider this tradition in order to create contemporary products those can find a place elegantly at everyday life.
I under take the production of this documentary film. The materials, photographs and videos that I used the creation of this film belong to me.
Sketches and Illustrations
Thank You
G端lnihal KARACA gulnikaraca@gmail.com (+90)541 466 8291