Designer
Işık Görgün Oral — Was born in Istanbul in 1983. She graduated from the Industrial Design department of Anadolu University in 2007. For the following 10 years, she worked as a design manager in various industries and companies; her designs won the IF Design Award, German Design Award and Universal Design Award within this period. In 2017, she founded Klan Studio with Eşref Akın Oral and still continues to design in the furniture, machinery and boat industry at Klan Studio. Eşref Akın Oral — Was born in 1973 in Ankara. He began to study at the Department of Industrial Design at METU in 1995. He started designing office furniture during his education. After 2001, he worked in various companies in the boat and furniture manufacturing sectors as a design manager and designed furniture as well as boat projects during this period. In 2017, he founded Klan Studio with Işık Görgün Oral. He still continues designing in the furniture, boat and machinery industries and also gives industrial design courses at various universities.
