Ali Gulec
Ali Gulec is an illustrator and co-owner of Ikiiki Design Studio, based in Istanbul. His day job is designing tshirts, but for fun, he uses a combination of traditional and digital collage to create beautiful skull art. Gulec discusses why he thinks his skulls have caught on:
“I believe people like my skulls because the contradictions such as life and death are much more obvious and visible in these pieces. Also, I have observed through the years that people are excited to see something resembling death doesn’t need to be scary and can be appealing for any person, even for my grandma :).”
Artist created, grandma approved. Can’t do better than that!
All images property of Ali Gulec/Ikiiki Design Studio.
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October 25, 2016 at 6:15 am
Oh, the cats on the table in the window. Subtlety at its best! Have you read “The Lovely Bones”? Fantastic. Buy his T-shirt; read the book. Heaven. Have a good one, Donna.
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October 25, 2016 at 8:00 am
Of course! Great book, much better than the movie!
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October 25, 2016 at 7:46 am
The cats on the table remind me of Escher’s work. Beautiful work.
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October 25, 2016 at 8:01 am
That’s true! Great eye!
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October 25, 2016 at 1:45 pm
These are all exceptional. I love the way that focusing on the details blurs the ability to read it as a skull but pulling back from the detail brings the skull into sharp relief. I also like that the elements he uses vary from image to image. Very clever.
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October 25, 2016 at 2:17 pm
He really does have such a cool vision!
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October 26, 2016 at 4:50 pm
Reblogged this on ARHtistic License and commented:
Thank you to Donna from My OBT for sharing this intriguing artwork.
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