ISTANBUL / WORLDWIDE
INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNERARTISTFUTURIST

TAMERNAKISCI

I create new scenarios
between people,
objects and spaces.

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Selected awards including iF, Red Dot, Elle Deco, Design Parade and European Year of Creativity and Innovation
Geometric sculptural forms in the Sharjah desert, photographed by Tamer Nakışçı
01 / PRACTICE

DESIGN / ART / EXPERIENCE

What if there was
a way to see the world differently?

Istanbul-based interdisciplinary designer Tamer Nakışçı’s experience spans technology, automotive design, multi-sensorial installations, and products.

With two decades of international practice between Turkey and European creative hubs, his career has garnered a plethora of international prizes and exhibitions—including a showcase at Villa Noailles Design Parade alongside multiple Red Dot and Wallpaper* Design Awards.

“Inspired by the future and fascinated by a timeless aesthetic, his work focuses on the interactions between people, spaces, and objects.”

Suzanne TrocméEditor-at-Large, Wallpaper*
02 / A LIVING IMAGE FIELD

Ideas for Today,
Dreams* for Tomorrow...

GEO II installed above a city building in daylight
Completed red string field
The entrance to Collecting Grapes at Contemporary Istanbul
Red, 2020 — orange bands of projected light trail across a moving head
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Close view of the Nokia 888 screen inside its illuminated street display
Coloured light wave crossing the old shoe factory
Light and Shade installed together in Doha in 2013
Two Gravity glass objects resting on metal mesh in the studio
Visitors forming their own compositions from the mirrored grapes
Handmade wooden hat moulds
Multi-colour Mist vase composition
Red and violet light extending through the Subliminal exhibition corridor
Photographic study from the 2020 shoot — lines 09
Rose Mist vases with foliage
Two sloping glass vessels in a garden setting
Hand studies exploring repeated fins and the curved entrance form
WORK / PROCESS / LIFE
Sculptural white forms from Relax Tableware
03 / PROJECTS

Selected projects.

04 / ABOUT

Undesigning
the expected.

Portrait of Tamer Nakisci behind a fractured glass surfaceISTANBUL / WORLDWIDE

Tamer Nakisci is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary designer and artist, and the founder and creative director of Futureisblank.

He studied Industrial Design at Mimar Sinan University and began his career at Fiat Advanced Design Concept Lab in Milan in 2004. A year later, his Nokia 888 concept introduced a radically flexible vision of personal technology and received the Nokia Benelux Design Award.

Since then, his work has moved between products, interiors, installations, exhibitions, digital culture and live experiences. The connecting idea is simple: forms should not dictate human behaviour; they should move with it.

Through Futureisblank, he is developing a new generation of spatial experiences and cultural platforms—made in Istanbul, extended through London, and designed for global impact.

ART DIRECTIONPRODUCTSPATIALDIGITAL ARTFUTURESEXPERIENCE
Tamer Nakışçı photographed for EntaMagIN CONVERSATION / ENTAMAG / TÜRKÇETasarımın Geleceği: TasarlanmamışlıkRead the interview ↗︎Tamer Nakışçı in the KEIN interview photographsIN CONVERSATION / KEIN MAGAZINEDesign, music & seeing the world anewExplore the interview ↗︎shopi go ART logoIN CONVERSATION / SHOPI GO ART / TÜRKÇETek yol gösterici şey, sanırım insanın kendi iç sesi olmalı.Read the original pages & watch the film ↗︎IN CONVERSATION / NUDE GLASS CATALOGUEMist & Mist LightsRead the interview ↗︎IN PRINT / DWELL MAGAZINERelax Tableware · Best in ShowExplore the feature ↗︎Between Worlds with Mike Walsh, featuring Tamer NakışçıBETWEEN WORLDS / PODCAST / MIKE WALSHUndesign, emotion & the future of objectsListen to the podcast ↗︎
05 / RECENT + JOURNAL

Now,
and next.

Events, exhibitions and ongoing work from the studio.

Candle Experience at Tersane IstanbulEVENT / TERSANE ISTANBUL / 8 MAR 2026

Futureisblank Space × Candle Experience

Intersection 4D projected around the columns at Pirelli HangarBicoccaPROJECT / MILAN / OCT 2025

Curious X × Seletti

Sensorium Worlds · Pirelli HangarBicocca

Tamer Nakışçı speaking at Bir Tasarım Problemi in Salt GalataTALK / SALT GALATA / MAY 2025

Bir Tasarım Problemi: The making of Geo Flow

Toyota’s parade car carrying a giant orange blossom through AdanaTOYOTA / ADANA / APR 2024 & 2025

Orange Blossom Carnival

Tamer Nakışçı working on Intersection among the trees during the Magic Forest installation at Unforbidden FestivalEVENT / UNFORBIDDEN FESTIVAL / SEP 2024

Magic Forest

Geo Wave at My Best Of in Küçük Mustafa Paşa HamamıGROUP EXHIBITION / MAY–JUN 2024

My Best Of, curated by TREXIT

Green light projected across Gateway Mini in Garbicz’s violet-lit Nerd WaldEVENT / GARBICZ FESTIVAL / POLAND / 2023

Gateway Mini in the Nerd Wald

Tamer Nakışçı with Geo X at Caresse ArtPERMANENT COLLECTION / BODRUM / 2023

Geo X at Caresse Art

Tamer Nakışçı, Merve Parnas and Kerem Ariş in conversation with Özlem Yalım at SPACE ’22TALK + INTERVIEW / ZORLU PSM / MAY 2022

SPACE ’22: Design talks

Dot tiled shower wall framed by pendant lights and rainforest views at Planchonella HouseIN PRINT / GESTALTEN / 2017

Dot at Planchonella House

On the cover of Take a Bath

Visitors experience the repeated arches and patterned floor of Tile Mile.ARCHIVE / CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK / MAY 2014

Tile Mile

Cube in an installation by russ + henshaw

GEO II above the crowd at Sommer KleinINSTALLATION / SOMMER KLEIN

GEO II at Sommer Klein

Geo Series above the Istanbul skylineONGOING / STUDIO

Geo continues as an evolving family.

Tamer performing with headphones and a microphone under blue and violet stage light
A live music session with piano, flute and drums in an exhibition space
06 / BEYOND CATEGORIES

Design,
consciousness
& sound.

Piano, voice and electronic music are another part of my practice. I’m interested in how sound changes our sense of space, brings people together and opens different ways of feeling.

07 / RECOGNITION

Recognition
& awards.

Recognized internationally for work that crosses design, art and emerging culture.

01Nokia Benelux Design Award
02100 Young Creative Talents of Europe · European Union
03Red Dot Design Award
04iF Design Award
05Wallpaper* Design Award
06Ambiente Trends 22+ · Mist Lights

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