Now I am officially commissioned to create new brand for a Turkish bag manufacturer. I’ll be designing the line together with their in-house design team. We are starting simple and minimal. First line will include, a messenger bag, a laptop bag, and a shoulder bag for men in various colors. Currently we are looking for material samples. Corduro and wax canvas are looking great as far. I know many of friends are working for textile industries here in Istanbul and I should talk to them. All interesting material suggestions will be awarded. From main fabric to strap I need to know what options are available. Yeah this is very exciting because I have never done this before (maybe a negative thing?) but at the same time I think design is design (love this form of English; x is x.) We’ll see how it goes.

I dreamt about a polygon smily last week. I am not sure if it was a hexagonal or a octagonal one but it was something like this.

Today I have deleted my sosyomat account. Sosyomat, a Turkish web service (I guess I have must add ‘for social networking’ to description line), was pretty popular between me and my friends in summer of 2006 and following winter. I was very active and did spend good time around. Below is a list of ‘tags’ and ‘phrases’ belongs to me, given by my friends.

darita (002 ekledi)
dataman (002 ekledi)
sleight of hand (BayKunduz ekledi)
kardisyen (BayKunduz ekledi)
card pass (BayKunduz ekledi)
card force (BayKunduz ekledi)
pinky break (BayKunduz ekledi)
pick a card (BayKunduz ekledi)
any card (BayKunduz ekledi)
ozur dilerim (ohjohn ekledi)

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I miss NY parties a lot. I have scanned few Killer party flyers from 1996 and 1997. Bold typographic layout on the back of each flyer is lovely. I am sure I have one more Killer Thursdays flyer with a body builder photograph on the front side. This image became International Gigolo DJs label logo later in 2000s. Also should have more Save the Robots club flyers soon I am planning to scan and upload them here. If you know the designer of these flyers please contact me for credits. (Click ‘more’ link under this post for few more.)

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Come to K-BAR this Friday(16.11.207) if you’re in Istanbul. Perhabs this is our first official gathering for dugumkume.org. Burak Arikan and Klaustro (Erden Ozer Yalcinkaya) will perform live and later I will DJ for the rest of the night. Doors are open from 10.30pm. There is no cover charge. K-BAR is at Zambak Sokak No.7 Beyoglu Istanbul.

We had so much fun last night at Ozgur’s. After buying and selling shares at Meta-Markets for hours I have noticed that I can quit my design job and get serious as a stock broker. We were four people sitting around a small table with four laptops, refreshing the pages, browsing, speculating and seriously investing for in the hope of gain. I was so lost so I couldn’t even eat my dinner, döner kebab.

Meta-Markets is Burak Arikan’s latest intriguing experimentation, combining stock market aesthetics with immaterial labor in social web services. You can walk in and start trading right away. Burak gives you 25β (Buraks) to invest upon registration. Again it is addictively fun. If you are curious for fun you can read more here.

My Facebook Profile IPO is doing pretty good. Price of my Flickr IPO shares are a bit high for current volume of the market.

As seen in the example above I have created a small application to visualize Meta-Market stocks based on Edward Tufte’s Sparklines. It dynamicly creates a word-size graphic that can be inserted anywhere in the text. Widget is currently showing stock name, market value transactions history and stock’s final value.

Usage is pretty simple. Just copy the following code and paste it into your web page.

<script src="http://www.darakilicoglu.com/mmsparklines/entities.php?_ID_" type="text/javascript"></script>

*Make sure to replace _ID_ with your actual entity id.