Gizem Okatay has experience in design, digital marketing, project management, and facilitating workshops. She founded her own clothing brand called Peachy Works and managed all design work herself. Currently, she is a designer and printing trainer at Global Project Partners where she facilitates silk screen printing workshops and oversees textile production processes.
Gizem Okatay has experience in design, digital marketing, project management, and facilitating workshops. She founded her own clothing brand called Peachy Works and managed all design work herself. Currently, she is a designer and printing trainer at Global Project Partners where she facilitates silk screen printing workshops and oversees textile production processes.
Gizem Okatay has experience in design, digital marketing, project management, and facilitating workshops. She founded her own clothing brand called Peachy Works and managed all design work herself. Currently, she is a designer and printing trainer at Global Project Partners where she facilitates silk screen printing workshops and oversees textile production processes.
Gizem Okatay has experience in design, digital marketing, project management, and facilitating workshops. She founded her own clothing brand called Peachy Works and managed all design work herself. Currently, she is a designer and printing trainer at Global Project Partners where she facilitates silk screen printing workshops and oversees textile production processes.
Global Project Partners | Present, Mar 2018 Maryland Institute College of Art, 2019 Managing and facilitating silk screen printing workshops, enhancing the productivity of women by overseeing the whole BSc NUTRITION and textile production process. Designing products for Muhra, DIETETICS the brand created by the social enterprise to support refugee Yeditepe University women living in Istanbul. Class of 2017 DESIGNER, DIGITAL MARKETING PROFESSIONAL SHORT COURSE, StratejiCo. | Mar 2018 - May 2017 URBANISM Implementing and executing the digital marketing strategy of Bilgi University the StratejiCo., an Agile consultation company. I prepared and designed the content aligned with company’s marketing goals. LEAN START UP Topics included motivation, value based work, Agile, etc. HACKATHON OWNER, FOUNDER InnoCampus Peachy Works | Apr 2018 - Feb 2017 August 2017 I founded a clothing brand called Peachy Works. From NATURAL DYE branding to illustration, I managed all the related design work- EXPERIMENTING load by myself. A project like this made me a self-initiated, organised person with utmost respect to what I do as a sat-su-ma Studio designer. April 2018
PROGRAMS COPYWRITER & PROJECT MANAGER
Fevreka | Apr 2016 - Nov 2016 Illustrator Photoshop I managed the client relationships at boutique ad agency InDesign Fevreka and created project proposals for brands to promote Webflow their digital presence.
HANDS ON SKILLS DESIGNER & WORKSHOP MANAGER
Silk screen printing Bitti Gitti | Aug 2015 - Sep 2014 Block printing Gave craft workshops to attendees at the creative Natural dyeing workshop called Bitti Gitti. Managed the social media account Weaving of the workshop. Wrote digital marketing content for outreach opportunities. COMMUNITIES SCHOLARSHIPS Founder, Action Club - Circuit Istanbul, 2018 Merit scholarship, Yeditepe University, 2010 Resident member, Atölye Istanbul, 2018 Merit scholarship, MICA, 2019