Mehmet Kizilay, b. 1981, Based in London

Mehmet Kizilay is a London based creative director and designer. Born in Tekirdag, Turkey, in 1981. Studied Digital Media Production at Oxford Brookes University. He’s been directing and designing film and television title sequences, television commercials and TV channel id packages since 2007.  He began his career at Trafo as Head of Motion Graphics Department. In 2008, then became creative director and partner at Dirty Cheap Creative in Istanbul.
In 2014, he founded Kraken Istanbul, where he lead a team of artists designing film and television main title sequences, commercials and branding identity packages. Kizilay received numerous international and local design honours, including a Gold Prize from the Bass Awards  with the idents he designed for NTV and an Emmy nomination (link) with titles he designed for HBO’s Silicon Valley in the Outstanding Title Design category. Kizilay is also an academician at Istanbul Bahcesehir University teaching Motion Graphics to young ones. He also holds jury duties at local award ceremonies like Crystal Apple and he has consultancy roles at the executive committee under the Motion & Title Design peer group in Istanbul.

Awards / Highlights

• 2018 Kirmizi Awards Best Animation

  
  

• 2016 Crystal Apple Best Animation

  
  

• 2014 Emmy Awards Outstanding Title Design (Nominee)

  
  

• 2013 Bassawards Best Channel Rebranding

  
  

• 2013 Crystal Apple Best Animation

  
  

• 2012 Crystal Apple Best Animation