I created this project as a submission for a T-Shirt Design competition arranged by adidas and Studio Mercado in Istanbul. The theme was "Istanbul: Here & Together". My aim was to create a design that showed the city from a different perspective by depicting the communal relationship the citizens have with the city's animal residents, as Istanbul is famous for its love of animals.
The T-shirt design is in the form of a comic book that depicts a day in the life of a boy and his four animal companions: a dog, cat, seagull, and pigeon (all animals that you see everyday in Istanbul) as they visit different Istanbul landmarks.
I played with as many ideas as I could in the initial design stage, and slowly eliminated designs until I had one cohesive story and style.
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