She is an Industrial Designer with an MFA degree in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. An independent researcher focusing on Food Design, her work is based on exploring, sharing and connecting. She aims to create an interdisciplinary community which works collectively on food and design issues. She has organized and hosted food design talks, exhibitions, conferences and eating events. She has also taught Food Design to industrial design, interior architecture and architecture students.

Currently, she is coauthoring a book titled “İstanbulun Kadın Şefleri (The Female Chefs of İstanbul)”, a work in progress.
2020 Parabere Forum – speaker.
2021 Design Türkiye - jury member.
2022 JOOP design awards - jury member.

Yeşim Eröktem is a product designer and co-founder of DAY Studio, an İstanbul-based multidisciplinary design consultancy. DAY collaborates with international companies including Frette, Habitat, W Hotel and runs its product line under the design brand AVLU, creating simple yet functional everyday objects with a contemporary approach. After receiving her Bachelor's in Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University, Yeşim completed Master's in Product Design at the École Cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). In 2021, she was included in the book Woman Made: Great Women Designers, published by Phaidon, among 200 women designers working in the field of design from the earlier twentieth century to the present day.

Yeşim Eröktem

Graduated from Istanbul Technical University in 2010, Doğanberk Demir completed his MA on Product Design at Swiss art school ECAL in 2012. Following his graduation, he got published Masterclass book by Frame magazine and worked at Barber Osgerby in London.

2012 onwards he worked at GAIA&GINO as Design Director, leading creative consultancy projects for Paşabahçe, Kayra, Casa, Swarovski and worked for the glassware brand
Verreum in Prague. In 2015 with his partner Yeşim Eröktem they founded their own design practice DAY Studio, a multidisciplinary design consultancy working with local and
international clients and running its own design brand AVLU focused on local manufacturing techniques, bridging contemporary design and İstanbul's rich crafts culture.

Nominated for Wallpaper* The Officine Panerai Next Generation Designer of the Year in 2017 and awarded EDIDA Design Studio of the Year, Doğanberk currently continues to work at DAY Studio & AVLU.

Eray Makal studied product design as an undergraduate and received an MFA in graphic design. Since 1993, he has been providing design services to top 500 companies in Turkey, print media, non- governmental organizations, and cultural/artistic institutions. His main areas of expertise include periodicals and book design, corporate
identity, and exhibition design. He is a member of the Industrial Designers’ Society of Turkey and the Graphic Designers’ Association. For nearly 20 years, he has been teaching various courses on design, such as Advertising Graphics, Publication Design and Design Management at Bilgi University’s Faculty of Communication.

Dr.Oya Akman graduated from Mimar Sinan University Department of Industrial Products Design. She completed her doctorate on semiotics, enhanced information transmission and symbol creation systems in Industrial Design. She worked as a designer for many years (50 years) in Turkey's leading glass, ceramic, porcelain, plastic textile industries, which she knows very well in the world. She worked as a faculty member at the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University for 12 years. Since 2005, she has carried out national and international projects and designs with her own brand and won very important awards. German Design Awards,
Pentawards, RedDot, Good Design, Design Plus, Design Plus Material Vision, World Star, EUWIIN, Crescents and Stars of Packaging, etc. she has US and Turkey patents, useful models and many design registrations for . She has been giving lectures on Semiotics, Semantics, Glass Design and Production Technologies, Packaging Design and Technologies for many years, and has been executing interdisciplinary projects and many innovative startup and entrepreneurship student projects. Her products were featured at Oya Design stand at Germany's important fair Ambiente, as well as in the Trend Area, German Design Award nominated areas and in selected exhibitions. She was jury member in many competitions, an Advisory Board Member, seminars and conferences. Her designs are sold in the local and global market under the Oya Design brand. She is the head of the Industrial Design Department at Medipol University.

Gökçe Kırımlı took her first steps into the world of design and art during her high school years at Istanbul Avni Akyol Fine Arts High School. After completing her high
school education, she began her studies at the Department of Industrial Product Design at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. During this process, she had the
opportunity to explore different areas of design by interning at Paşabahçe in 2014 and Zoom TPU in 2015 Between the academic years of 2014-2015, she received
education within the scope of the Erasmus Program in Genoa, Italy. In 2016, she won first prize in the Cardboard Packaging and Paper Products Design Competition with her design project named "Knit," earning her a scholarship for further education in Europe. She decided to focus on her other passion in life, "food," and went to Milan for a Master's degree in "Food Design." After her education in Milan, she completed a 3-month internship with Martí Guixé in Barcelona. During her internship, she designed various drink glasses and snack serving products for the L'ex Designer Project Bar. She also had the opportunity to work on the next series of "Digital Food," previously exhibited in Hamburg. Throughout this process, she extensively worked with 3D printers. In 2019, when she returned to Turkey, she started working in the field of food design in Istanbul, armed with the experiences she gained. Currently, she designs and produces food molds in collaboration with food establishments and chefs. Additionally, she develops various concept projects related to food, aiming to offer consumers a different food experience by treating food as a design material. She continues her work with this goal in mind.

1989 yılında İstanbul’da doğan Sevgi Kes, 2012 yılında İTÜ Endüstriyel Tasarım Bölümü’nden mezun oldu.  2013 -2021 yılları arasında Paşabahçe tasarım ekibinde yer aldı ve bu sürede Red Dot, IF Design Award, German Design Award gibi uluslararası tasarım yarışmalarında ödül aldı. 2021 yılı itibari ile çeşitli üniversitelerin endüstriyel tasarım bölümlerinde cam tasarımı dersi vermekte ve tasarım çalışmalarına freelance olarak devam etmektedir