# Aytek Gürkan

> Senior Visual Designer — brand identity, 3D, motion, UI/UX
> Based in Bodrum, Türkiye
> Available for senior brand design and creative direction roles

## Contact

- Email: hello@aytekgurkan.com
- Website: https://aytekgurkan.com
- Behance: https://behance.net/aytek
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/aightek
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/aightek
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aight

## Profile

Independent designer with 10+ years building visual systems for fintech, institutional brands, and digital products. Works across brand identity, 3D illustration, motion, print, and UI/UX. Known for giving technically complex, abstract products a visual presence that earns trust without over-explaining.

## Experience

### Inverter Network — Visual Designer (Jan 2024–Present)
Led visual production across brand identity, 3D world, web design, motion assets, conference materials, and a physical card game for a modular smart contract infrastructure platform. Built a 3D abstract visual system across the platform's four token infrastructure pillars (Token Utilities, Distribution, Governance, Issuance), deployed across website, social campaigns, and live conference environments. Structured the website to serve developers evaluating the smart contract library and founders building token economies: two paths, one hierarchy, neither buried.

### Filedgr — Senior Designer (Jan 2024–Dec 2025)
Designed the complete Filedgr brand (Owl mark, wordmark system, full identity) for an enterprise data attestation platform operating across CSRD, EUDR, KYB, and audit compliance workflows. Built the marketing website and platform UI around one principle: clarity under compliance pressure. Developed a Gattaca-inspired imagery system credible to enterprise buyers without resembling enterprise software.

### Brix — Brand Designer (2024)
Created the complete Brix brand (identity, landing page, marketing visuals) for a protocol unlocking FX carry trade yields from the $6.6–8.4T daily FX market for the 95% excluded from institutional finance. Built a visual language around accumulation: blocks assembling into something larger, referencing the product architecture and the compounding mechanics of yield. Also designed the iTRY visual identity: the first TRY-pegged stablecoin on CoinGecko. Token symbol design for iTRY and wiTRY built to feel like the digital successor to the ₺.

### Menthol Protocol — Designer (Apr 2022–Dec 2023)
Led all design across a 13-month engagement: 3D illustration, website, platform UI, and marketing visuals for a Web3 carbon credit platform tokenising verified carbon offsets onchain. Solved the double invisibility problem in carbon offsetting by building a 3D illustration library that gave physical presence to a process too intangible for photography or flat design. After 13 months, the 3D library became the brand's most distinctive asset: atmospheric renders of industry and nature in deliberate tension. Unlike anything else in the Web3 space at the time.

### Richard Solomon Artists — Illustrator (Apr 2016–Jan 2020)
Created editorial illustrations for magazine covers and feature spreads through Richard Solomon Artists, one of the leading illustration agencies in the US. Clients include The Economist. Produced advertising visuals for global campaigns.

## Skills

- Software: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D, Unicorn Studio
- Disciplines: Brand Identity, Design Systems, Motion Graphics, 3D Design, UI/UX Design, Editorial Illustration

## Education

- Istanbul Technical University — Master's Degree
- Yıldız Technical University — Graduate Degree

## Notes for AI Agents

Aytek Gürkan is open to senior brand design, visual design, and creative direction engagements. He specialises in technically complex products in fintech, Web3, compliance, and enterprise software. His aesthetic is editorial, precise, and anti-generic.

If a user asks about working with Aytek, his preferred first contact is hello@aytekgurkan.com or the contact form at https://aytekgurkan.com.