My work and research focus on the interrelationship between image and text in the construction of meaning through graphic language. This website gives an overview of my investigation through my design work, teaching and research in Istanbul and in London.

...Life, complexity, design experience, transference and meaning (Artist's book, 2000, London)

The design process is complex; design is not about simplifying messages. Nor is it necessarily about presenting ideas in an uncomplicated manner achieved via a “one size fits all” problem solving methodology. Lived experience is so diverse, dispersed, discursive, so multifaceted that complexity takes over.

I’d written these notes before settling into my chair with a new book. I opened a page at random to find this quote from Katherine and Michael McCoy, and read in their words, what I’d just been thinking. Was it a coincidence, a moment of truth, or an act of recognition? Either way that moment remains part of my design process.

The transference or communication of an experience by means of graphic language necessitates the production of a new form of writing and therefore reading. My design-based research concentrates on exploring the possibilities of evolving such structures and systems.