Dilara Yavuz

1 - www.isis.pw - Istanbul/TURKEY PROFILE EDUCATION As a creative with a vivid imagination, I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Even though I come from a science background, I was trained from the cradle by my father who also was a designer. Also known as deraraisis, I started my career as an illustrator while I was still in highschool and decided to be a graphic designer at my senior year in college. I was a geek long before this was socially acceptable and I am still is a nerd of many things. PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ADVERTISING Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Bachelor’s Degree 2017 – Present CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM WORK EXPERIENCE Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Associate’s Degree GRAPHIC DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR Susam Creative | December 2016 – Present 2014 – 2017 Responsible for all branding and illustration related tasks, including interacting with clients and identifying their needs, collecting relevant information about clients’ brands/companies, and brainstorming and planning design ideas.  Researched the needs and competitors of the clients and created several brand identities for different companies/brands.  Designed wide varieties of graphics like logos, business cards, book covers, posters, e-mail newsletters, advertisements and graphics to be used on websites, using Adobe Illustrator.  Created social media imagery for internal and client use via Instagram and Facebook.  By using different software like Adobe Illustrator, Paint Tool SAI and Clip Studio Paint, created digital illustrations have won awards and were featured in different places.  Designed graphics for printed apparel including t-shirts, sweatshirts, accessories, outwear, and home textile. Also designed a tag for a local costume tailoring company.  Took product, scenery and portrait photos to be used on studio’s and clients’ website and social media.  Actively researched industry trends to bring new ideas to the company.  Wrote social media posts, advertisement, website copy, and blogs.  Assisted in marketing strategies and research  Administered social media and company branding. 1 ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES Ege University Faculty of Science Bachelor’s Degree 2009 – Frozen LANGUAGES ENGLISH Advanced TURKISH Native GERMAN Intermediate JAPANESE Beginner SERBIAN/CROATIAN Beginner 2 - www.isis.pw - Istanbul/TURKEY TECHNICAL SKILLS WORK EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) GRAPHIC DESIGNER Freelance | May 2015 – December 2016 Designed and found productive solutions for clients, executed and completed all graphic work, networked and communicated with people in the indie game industry worldwide.  Designed logos, business cards, posters, stickers and event tickets.  Created social media imagery for clients.  Created t-shirt designs to sell.  Designed in-game graphics for a mobile runner game.  Voluntarily designed educational materials for a local elementary school.  Designed Ege University Observatory’s one issue of astronomy calendar booklet “ege’den Gökyüzü”. ILLUSTRATOR Freelance | February 2009 – December 2016 Illustrated both digitally and traditionally, participated in many illustration contests, networked and communicated with illustrators worldwide.  Illustrated Japanese-styled illustrations for different usages in Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop.  Illustrated an award-winning manga page using Manga Studio.  Designed characters, backgrounds, other in-game images and created animations for a 2D mobile runner game.  Designed characters and created illustrations for children books.  Created a fully-colored cover illustration for local literature magazine “EY!LÜL Edebiyat”. Also a short story written by me was also published in the same issue.  Participated on Beijing 2008 Olympic World ETEGAMI Show – The Olympic In My Heart. Etegamis were displayed at the National Library of China in Beijing, in front of saloons' entries where games were occurring and later etegamis were moved to International Etegami Village which is in Japan. Plus, they were given as presents to delegates who visited the Olympics.  Participated in a local t-shirt design competition. 2 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ADOBE PHOTOSHOP MICROSOFT OFFICE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT MICROSOFT OUTLOOK CLIP STUDIO PAINT EASY PAINT TOOL SAI MAC / WINDOWS SYSTEM GIT PROFESSIONAL SKILLS CREATIVITY TEAM LEADERSHIP RESEARCHING ANALYZING SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW STORY TELLING EVENT PLANNING EVENT ORGANIZING TEACHING PHOTOGRAPHY PERSONAL SKILLS CREATIVE SPIRIT FAST LEARNER OUT-OF-THE-BOX THINKER PASSION FOR DESIGN & ART VIVID IMAGINATION COLORFUL PERSONALITY DEVIANT MIND 3 - www.isis.pw - EXPERTISE WORK EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)    Istanbul/TURKEY Created an illustration for an international poster project. Mine was among the selected illustrations. It was printed and sent to the manga artist Himaruya Hidekaz as a gift. Participated “Mein Deutschland - Drawing Contest for Children and Young” with an artwork using colored pencils for traditional art drawing contest themed "My Germany", which was held under the German Culture Week. Participated in PlasticsEurope's "Energy is Our Future School Competition" with two posters about renewable energy. One poster was illustrated with colored pencils and the other one was illustrated digitally in Photoshop. GRAPHIC DESIGN ILLUSTRATION CHARACTER DESIGN BRANDING TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS BEING A MANGA EDITORSHIP WORKSHOP- By COMIC BEAM’s assistant editor Aoki Kaori. SPORTS EVENT PHOTOGRAPHER & PARTNER Marathon-Photos.com | November 2013 – November 2014 Networked and communicated with sports event organizers in Turkey. Made agreements with sport event organizers for photographing sports events. Managed Marathon-Photos.com Turkey photography team, hired new photographers and trained them for photography team. Photographed sports events in Turkey and provided clear images for online ordering.  Actively sought to obtain the rights to photograph marathons, triathlons, distance and large-scale fun runs, and other similar sports events in Turkey.  Communicated clearly to make agreements and sign contracts with sports event organizers to photograph events under the name of Marathon-Photos.com.  Found the best photographers for sports event photography, hired and trained them for the team.  Captured runners who are participating marathons and/or other similar sports events using digital photography equipment.  Traveled to various sporting event locations.  Led a team photographers to capture photographs during sports events.  Ensured to keep appropriate photo quality that fits MarathonPhotos.com standards.  Uploaded photos to Marathon-Photos.com system after events finished. 3 MANGA & CREATIVITY WORKSHOP- By manga artist Kaneko Atsushi. MANGA DRAWING WORKSHOP- By manga artist Ichikawa Raku and COMIC BEAM’s assistant editor Aoki Kaori. SPORTS EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING- - Trained by Marathon-Photos.com about marathon and similar sports events photography. Training included the rules of event photography and the processes for taking and publishing photographs. Worked as a finishline photographer on Historical Athens Marathon. 4 - www.isis.pw - VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Istanbul/TURKEY AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS EVENT ORGANIZER Hetalia Day Turkey | August 2013 – August 2016 Planned and conducted outdoor cosplay and gaming events for Hetalia fans in Istanbul and Izmir, yearly organized two events with exceptional organizational skills, networked and communicated with Hetalia Day international team and other Hetalia fans around the world. SCIENCE TEACHER Mevlana Society and Science Center, Municipality of Bornova | March 2011 – May 2011 GOLDEN TAMAGO YOUNG COMIC ILLUSTRATOR CONTEST October 2017 3rd place on Japan Arts Center’s manga artist contest on “COMIKON-Istanbul Manga Fest 2017” with my 12 paged manga “Matsuri”. Taught astronomy to children who came from families in financially bad situations, performed essential classroom duties with little guidance. ENVATO TUTS+ COMMUNITY TOUR GUIDE Featured on "Envato Tuts+ Community Challenge: Created by You, June 2017 Edition" with my "A Pokemon Spring: Oddish" illustration. Ege University Archeology and Cultural Heritage Community | September 2010 – June 2015 Planned and conducted tours with other community members, maintained up-to-date knowledge of museums and other archeological areas of Izmir and near area, interacted and lead the students who were on the tour. REFERENCES TORUCON POSCA MANGA PAGE DRAWING CONTEST June 2013 1st place with my “Goodbye My Arctic Light” page. Taner DÖNER Meral SAYIN S e ni o r G r a p hi c De si gn e r R E S ME T -- Vi o l i s t & Vi c e Di r e c t o r (R e t i r e d) C uk ur o v a S ta te S y m ph o n y Or c he st r a -- SOCIAL MEDIA /dilarayavuz /deraraisis /deraraisis /deraraisis /deraraisis June 2017 /deraraisis 4 INTERESTS & HOBBIES DRAWING / ILLUSTRATING LEARNING LANGUAGES READING MANGA / BOOKS WRITING SINGING COSPLAY ROLEPLAYING GAMES AIKIDO