Hello! I am Onur Erler.
Experienced Visual Artist, Creative Director and Graphic Designer with a strong background in fine arts and visual communication. Founder of Babka Creative Workshop and a Lecturer at Istanbul Kent University. Award-winning designer with recognitions from Google, Felis Awards, and GMK Design Awards. Passionate about combining art, design, and education to inspire and innovate in the creative industry.
I was born in Istanbul in 1982. Graduated from Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education Department of Fine Arts, currently pursuing my Master's Degree at Beykent University Institute of Social Sciences Department of Communication and Design.
I stepped into the advertising industry in 2004, worked as senior art director at advertising agencies such as TBWA / Cortex, Öykü Dialogue International and Rekta Ketchum, and as creative director at Bed&Breakfast.
Served many international / domestic brands such as Sony, Bel Group (La Vache Qui Rit, Karper), Haribo, Halkbank, Red Bull, Shell, Çimtaş (Enka), Holiday-Inn, Lotto, Danone - Nutirica, Pfizer, Novartis, TRT, KFC Turkey. Took part in many national campaigns and received graphic design / advertising awards.
I stepped into the advertising industry in 2004, worked as senior art director at advertising agencies such as TBWA / Cortex, Öykü Dialogue International and Rekta Ketchum, and as creative director at Bed&Breakfast.
Served many international / domestic brands such as Sony, Bel Group (La Vache Qui Rit, Karper), Haribo, Halkbank, Red Bull, Shell, Çimtaş (Enka), Holiday-Inn, Lotto, Danone - Nutirica, Pfizer, Novartis, TRT, KFC Turkey. Took part in many national campaigns and received graphic design / advertising awards.
I became the founding partner of Babka Creative Workshop In 2017. The art pieces I created were exhibited in various exhibitions. I currently work as a lecturer at Istanbul Kent University Department of English Visual Communication Design and continue my activities in art / design / education in Köyceğiz, Türkiye.
Artist Statement
Creating my own plane of meaning thanks to the freedom provided by surrealism, the quest to tell my stories which are mostly set in a matriarchal world and actually be able to converge on a "feeling" that touches the heart of the beholder constitutes the essence of my work.
In a way, the timelessness and coexistence of sadness, rebellion, hope, all human emotions are told in these stories with familiar images of humanity that do not belong to any particular culture but speak to every soul, riddled with elaborate metaphors that play with the perception of time and space.
My artistic adventure is summed up in my effort to reflect my curiosity towards human behaviour in my works, by giving great importance to the color, form, line interactions, composition, that is, the plastic elements of the work on the one hand, and pushing my own intuitive limits on the other.