Middle East Technical University (METU) has been ranked #6 among the top educational institutions in America and Europe in Red Dot Design Ranking 2013. Our department is rated above the globally renowned design schools such as Pratt Institute (USA), Royal College of Art (UK) ve Rhode Island School of Design [...]
2013 Thesis and Course Performance Awards were announced at the Architecture Amphitheater July, 6th, 2013. Res. Assist. Yekta Bakırlığlu received Thesis Award with his master thesis “Biomimicry for Sustainability: An Educational Project in Sustainable Product Design” supervised by Assist. Prof. Dr.Çağla Doğan. Thesis Awards were given by The Graduate School [...]
The project “Sustainable solutions integrating bathroom accessories with bathroom tiles” which was conducted at METU in collaboration with Kaleseramik received third prize in “Social Benefits” in the Turkish European Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. The award winning project was carried out during the fall of 2011 in the third year industrial [...]
Many congratulations are due to our Master`s student Nur Yıldırım, who has received several awards and accolades for her Stream Beam Espresso Machine, designed during her ID535 Design for Interaction course project. The brief was to design a product that would create a barista experience in the home. International Design [...]
A` Design Awards 2012-2013 Period winners are announced. METU Department of Industrial Design is proud to announce that our instructor, Dr. Hakan Gürsu, won 11 different awards, and 4 different projects from the faculty students and an alumni are among the winners. You can find a detailed list of the [...]
2nd "Automotive Design Competition" held by Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters Association (OİB) announced that the 3rd prize winners are METU ID 4th year students Fatma Köstekli and Salih Berk İlhan with their concept "Benika" - a concept on mobile car washing. Carried around in cars and charged by engine power, [...]
Dilruba Oğur, graduate student of METU Department of Industrial Design, received iF concept design award 2013 with her graduation project "Anello" developed in collaboration with Vestel. iF Concept Design Award ceremony and the exhibition for the award winning projects will be held in Hannover, Germany. The design project was also awarded [...]
Nazlı Gökçe Terzioğlu, graduate student of METU Department of Industrial Design, was awarded as "WorldStar Student Winner"in WPO Worldstar student 2012 International Packaging Design Competition, which was announced in United States of America. Detailed information: http://www.iopp.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3213
33 alumni and 1 intructor of us has won 48 out of 106 awards given at Design Turkey 2012 Industrial Design Competition , which was held by Ministry of Economoy, Turkish Exporter`s Assembly and Industrial Designers Society of Turkey for the third time this year. In 2010, our 27 alumni [...]
METU Industrial Design Department third year students developed sustainability scenarios under the theme of “Home Hereos” for Profilo, the local brand of BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH) in the fall semester 2011-12. Washit design project developed by Ahmet Burak Aktaş, Salih Berk İlhan, Adem Önalan and Burak Söylemez received the iF [...]