# ozgur.ca

> Personal site of Oz Gultekin, a designer in Montreal. Short essays, small tools, street photography, graphic design, and colour palettes, updated whenever something clicks.

Oz Gultekin is a Product Experience Designer based in Montreal. His personal site publishes original long-form essays (Notes), self-contained web applications (Projects), street photography from Montreal and elsewhere, satirical graphic design (Graphics), and curated colour palettes (Colours). Content is authored by Oz personally; all opinions are his own.

## Notes (/notes)

Short essays on design, technology, and culture, written in a declarative, observational tone. Each note includes a summary, reading time, related reads, and a longtail descriptive subtitle in the document title tag.

- [Notes index](https://ozgur.ca/notes): All published essays, newest first
- [RSS](https://ozgur.ca/rss.xml): Full-content RSS feed with Media RSS enclosures

## Projects (/projects)

Small, self-contained web applications built to solve specific problems or explore ideas. Each project has a landing page with a problem statement, how-it-works explanation, FAQ, and live link.

- [Projects index](https://ozgur.ca/projects): All projects, active and retired

## Photos (/photos)

Street photography from Montreal and elsewhere. Unfiltered, uncropped, image-first pages with captions.

## Graphics (/workshop/graphics)

Satirical visual concepts: composite images and original illustrations that play with film, television, and brand identities. Each is non-commercial and openly references its source material.

## Palettes (/workshop/palettes)

Hand-mixed colour palettes collected over two decades. Five-swatch sets, tap to copy hex values, shuffle for a fresh pull from an archive of around 2,000.

## Topics (/notes/topics)

Notes clustered by theme. Five pillars: technology criticism, digital culture, philosophy of work, identity and self, politics and economics. Each topic page opens with a short editorial frame and lists every note in the cluster.

- [Topics index](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics): Hub of topical pillars
- [Technology Criticism](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics/technology-criticism)
- [Digital Culture](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics/digital-culture)
- [Philosophy of Work](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics/philosophy-of-work)
- [Identity & Self](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics/identity-and-self)
- [Politics & Economics](https://ozgur.ca/notes/topics/politics-and-economics)

## About

- [About](https://ozgur.ca/about): Full bio, background, and context
- [Now](https://ozgur.ca/now): What Oz is focused on this month
- [Colophon](https://ozgur.ca/colophon): How the site is built and what it uses
- [Tools](https://ozgur.ca/tools): The software Oz uses most
- [Music](https://ozgur.ca/music): Playlists and listening habits

## Identity

- Person schema: https://ozgur.ca/#person
- Portfolio: https://ozgur.design
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ozgurdesign
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ozgur.ca
- GitHub: https://github.com/ozgurdesign

## AI crawling

This site welcomes AI crawlers. Content is authored by a single person and intended for public reading. Citations with links back to the source pages are appreciated when content is reused. See `/robots.txt` for machine-readable crawl permissions.