Oz Gultekin — Designer in Montréal

Hello. Bonjour. Merhaba. Hello.

I'm Oz, a designer of things...

This is my signal space for a noisy mind

It's April 23rd, 8:22pm here in Montréal.

Clouds are drifting and we're 31% through the year.

Hope your day's going well, wherever you are.

Short essays on design and culture, small tools I built to scratch specific itches, street photography from Montréal and beyond, graphic design that runs on spoof and satire, and colour palettes collected over twenty years. New notes land when something clicks. New projects ship when they're ready to stand on their own. The galleries grow whenever a walk produces something worth keeping.

Notes

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I write about the overlooked, the contradictory, and the quietly absurd.

Projects

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I build minimal tools and run small experiments.

Photos

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I capture imperfect artistry, and people caught being themselves.

A small weathered cabin sitting alone in a wide autumn field of tall grass under a moody cloudy sky
A lone figure walking a dog across a vast snow-covered park during a blizzard, nearly swallowed by white
Two orange traffic cones standing next to a rounded green playground sculpture on a gravel surface
Two abstract stacked-figure sculptures reflected in a wet plaza surface under a dramatic cloudy sunset sky
Valentine's Day balloons floating out of an open cardboard box on a New York City sidewalk beside a delivery van
A commercial airplane ascending over a harbour of fishing vessels at golden hour in Reykjavik

Graphics

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I create visual concepts and explorations that speak through spoof and satire.

Engraved illustration of Alfred Hitchcock in a suit with a cigar in his mouth, upon which the Twitter bird stands and chirps, rendered in detailed cross-hatching style on a textured beige background.
Street art style poster showing Karl Marx drinking from a Coca-Cola bottle, with graffiti-style text reading Les Enfants de Marx et du Coca-Cola in dripping black letters against a distressed red background.
Retro cartoon illustration of Skeletor with a muscular physique lifting a barbell loaded with yellow weight plates in a gym, rendered in purple, yellow, and blue with halftone dot shading against a textured blue background
Retro pop art illustration of a superhero wearing a red and white costume with a maple leaf emblem slicing meat from a vertical döner kebab spit, rendered in red, blue, and cream with halftone dot patterns against a blue background
Cartoon illustration of Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants with arms raised triumphantly standing on top of a Krabby Patty burger, rendered in orange and red tones with halftone dot shading against a textured orange background
Screen print style portrait of Steve Jobs wearing round glasses and a beard, dressed in a green sweater with an Android robot logo, rendered in green and white with halftone dot shading against a gray textured background

Colours

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I mix colours until something feels right, then I keep them, sometimes for decades.