Interview with Tamer Bahadir Ozturk
He was born in Karabük, in 19.07.1961. Till high school, he studied in Karabük, afterwards he continued his school life in Istanbul.
Design Legend Interview
30 April 2018
In 1986, I was graduated from ITU Engineering Faculty and then, finish Istanbul University Business Economics (night classes) within 2 years. I started my business career in April 1990, in Sisecam as “Mold Design Engineer”. Since that time, I had been working in variety of departments successfully. For about 5 years, I work as “Design Manager” to increase prestige of Şişecam Glass Packaging with my Design Team.
Life itself.
Normally, I am an engineer. Years and years of experience in different parts of glass packaging sector, I evolve to a designer more then an engineer willingly.
I design glass packaging bottles and jars and thier systems.
“Notice the unnoticed”
A good designer is good at what they design; however a great designer is good at how they shape and ease the up-coming future of humanity.
A good design is simple enough to Express the designers ideas over itself and defend on its own.
A good design will simply use by a very large quantity of people and should effect their life in a good way.
I want to design shelters for unowned animals around the streets
To design products at mission Mars
To make a good research around my every-day environment
Philippe Starck and Karim Rashid
I have 2 great designs and they are my daugthers :)
You must give all of your mental strength to what you aim to create. I respect to what job I have and embrass it as my child. I care for understand it and create my best ideas to match with my project.
I become a tourist guide I guess.
Design is to share your ideas with the people who need them to become real.
My family both outside and inside my company are my biggest supporter.
To believe in myself and my family.
Until people approve your way of design, all of them could become obstacles that you ought to be faced.
Its upto their needs and facilities.
To serve my company, my country and humanity as best as I can
They expect better, differencemaker, useful, easily produced and cheap to buy designs :)
By the effect of 3d printer technologies with tones of materials and evolving of nanotechnology, I believe, a very bright future is upon us.
It depends on the Project.
I start by merging the Project and the client
I believe the technology is indispensable part of designing. If you are keen on using technology wisely, your design should be successful in a shorter time.
We use pencils, pens, wacom tablet, Catia, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop, Power-Point, Enovia, Onbase, Anysis
A good merge of right colors, right materials and suitable ambient will help creating the base of a good design subject.
My team has been my ideal design partner for about many years.
The ones of which we quickly get along with.
It is not hard as long as you have not changed the way you see and contact with people.
Designer Interview
30 April 2018
The Product Design Center applies for new patents for its new product development projects and expands existing markets with its different system designs while also creating new markets. Our aim with new product development projects, which provide sustainable added value to our customers as well as our company, is to expand the market with innovative product designs. Our design team members are certified and remain up to date with regular training they receive including that from American Glass Research, one of the world's leading glass research institutions. Sisecam Design center offers actual bottles glass thickness and impact resistance assessments at critical points and will consult you on optimal packaging weight to enhance end-user usability, reduce wastage or save on shipping costs.
For me , design is "catching the customer's dream". Lucky to me, me and my team is very successful to manage this dream-catching process.
Mostly, we like to achieve "the newest idea" not only in the related packaging sectors but also within their system. We like to show our talent to our clients and their consumers.
My favourtie material is glass and factories of glass packaging are my kindergardens. All kind of innovative technology is my favourite, cause they can support eachother in several ways. To find those ways are the fun part.
Simplicity is my main rock. Production and Eco-friendly design are my indispensables. Nevertheless, the design should create a benefit for both client's and my company.
I feel the joy of creating, proud for realizing my idea and satisfuction of doing my job
I feel the joy of achieving, proud for my team's and mine success and satisfuction of contrubuting my company.
If a design is realized and our client is pleased with it, it is enough for declare it as a successful design.
There is no good or bad design for what I believe. There could be only sutibale design for right aim. A suitable design must be producable and catches the general needs of the related project. If it is away to acheive these, it is not a suitable design.
Designers must be aware of what materials and how much of them they are planning to use for their design. To satisfy their ego must not the first thing for a designer but to aim the greater good of people should.
Not very far away, with the development of endustry 4.0 and AI technologies, even new ideas could be created by computer based evolution. So, as designers, we must be aware of managing this evolving for the sake of humanity. Till this reality, by the effect of 3d printer technologies with tones of materials and evolving of nanotechnology, I believe, a very bright future is upon us.
I live in one of the beautiful centers of istanbul at Anatolia side; Kozyatagi. Very close to the E5 high way to the Europe and Anatolia connections. Also close to the seaside and social neighbourhood.
We generally contact with companies via our sales department. We try to understand their needs over meetings and over our design briefs. Also, we specially create projects for some of our key clients and it will spread to others as well. Occasionally, we create our projects for developing a new market of which generates itself within a couple years.
A good designer reflects their abilities through the company over their designs. They must understand the main goals of the company and use their abilities wisely. On the other hand, a company should be open to new ideas and support the designer first by trusting them.
We have several initiations but the rest of the process is similar: meet&merge Client&Project, Investigate the Market, Create Draft Ideas & Select in between, 3D create your ideas suitably for the production & elect in between (if necessary), create rendered presentation and finally present it to the Client.
Be creative! To do so, invest to yourself! The more you see&read the better you evolve…
Positives: It’s cool :) To see your idea become real is priceless! It has a wide range where you can develop your creativity. Negatives: People always mix design engineers with product designers :) You must always be ready to be creative! If you work as an inhouse designer, you must be becareful about your topics outside your company.
Persistant, hardworker, open-minded, positive, detail-hunter, creative, compatable, lucky, respectful.
We use pencils, pens, wacom tablet, Catia, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop, Power-Point, Enovia, Onbase, Anysis
We had an advanced Product Cycle Managment software and we generally use this system. Even tough, the design part of the Project has an unknown time period due to approval from client’s perspective, in most of the projects we calculate this period about 2 weeks tops. According to client’s urgent needs, all other periods get into an order afterwards. The creation process is the important part of designing and as a team, we always give our focus to perform good creations.
It depends. It changes from one day to 2 weeks!
Famous beer companies from all over the World, lead coke companies, lots of local mineral water and sparkling water companies, famous alcohol companies, pharmacy companies and so on.
We work as a Design Team consisting of Product Designers, Engineers, analysts and technicians
People can reach me and my team from SISECAM - info@sisecamglasspackaging.com or http://www.sisecamcamambalaj.com/en/contact-us