Aykut Erol

Aykut Erol is an industrial designer who has run a studio under his own name in the Tesvikiye district of Istanbul since 1997. He studied industrial product design at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts and later worked at Domus Academy and NABA in Milan with designers including Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini and Konstantin Grcic.

His work is known for a sincere, minimal and environmentally conscious language, extending across products, furniture and exhibition design. Pieces such as Line, Grass and Be Sincere have been exhibited in Istanbul, at the Venice Biennale and in Germany, and Line entered the permanent collection of the Marta Herford museum in 2011. Awards include the Designpreis Deutschland, iF Design Award, IDSA IDEA and Chicago Athenaeum Good Design.