Graphic design

Hello, I am Ali Muhammet Bayraktaroğlu. I am a faculty member at Trakya University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic. I am also the head of the department. My areas of expertise are: Alternative Photographic Printing Techniques, Analogue and Digital Photography, News Photography, as well as Photography and Interdisplay in Cinema. Our Department is located in the campus of Karaağaç, which is the most beautiful campus of our university, which also is a home to a historical train station. While our students experience being a university student on this campus, they can also experience these beauties intertwined with history and nature. Our department started its activities in the 2010-2011 academic year. We have a young and dynamic teaching staff in our department. The biggest advantage of these young and very hard working colleagues is that our students, who are integrated with technology, take their courses from the instructors, who are in harmony with technology and at the same time know traditional methods. Our department is located in Karaağaç Campus, which is the most beautiful campus of our university. Our students are surrounded with a rich environment of history and culture, intertwined with nature. We have a young and dynamic teaching staff in our department, which is very advantageous in terms of following current trends and approaches. In that sense, our staff is able to continue the education and training activities in a good relationship with students. We have compulsory and elective courses in our department. These courses are integrated into the European Credit System. A student has to complete 240 ECTS to reach the graduation stage. In these courses, in addition to the compulsory courses, our students can also develop themselves in different disciplines with elective courses. After completing the 4-year educational process, our students have the chance to graduate from our faculty with the title of designer.
We have 3 computer laboratories in our department, and we also have plenty of tablets. Our students can benefit from these opportunities. Apart from the computer labs, there are also different workshops that our students can use such as Printing, Printmaking, and Pattern. tWe have a Letterpress Printing workshop within our department, which is perhaps the only one among the state universities in Turkey. Well, the most important feature this Letterpress Printing Workshop has is this; A generation that questions everything with technology and finds the solution through technology, in fact, can stay on a very shallow surface in terms of producing solutions, since they integrate their normal design skills and creative identities into technology. Therefore, with the Letterpress Printing workshop and manual printing techniques, our students can develop their creative thinking skills by producing their own solutions to their problems. At the end of 4 years of education, our students prepare graduation projects in one of the sub-fields such as photography, illustration, digital printing, and normal printing. Our students can benefit from education and training activities in different countries through Erasmus, Farabi and Mevlana programs. We currently have Erasmus agreements with universities in Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, North Macedonia and Italy. At the same time, through Mevlana and Farabi programs, our students can improve themselves in order to develop their own vision and knowledge. In our department, some activities are carried out in order to increase the professional motivation of our students. We host valuable graphic designers who have proven themselves in the, as well as we aim to increase the morale and motivation of our students and improve themselves in education through some activities such as illustrators meeting. After graduation, our students can establish their own design agencies and present them to different geographies of the world. Our graduates can also work in government institutions with their graphic designer identities, as well as find jobs in the media and graphic design agencies. Those who are considering an academic career, on the other hand, continue their development by participating in graduate programs. Dear students, technology is a tool, not an end. It is very nice to use technology, and having the ability to use technology is also a great virtue, but creative thinking and design virtues should not be forgotten. That's why it's best to continue to draw, produce, think and design, and maybe integrate these designs into technology later. Edirne is one of the safest and easiest cities to live in, you can go anywhere in fifteen minutes. Our university offers many opportunities to our dear students. We have a library that is open 24 hours; You can study there comfortably whenever you want. Dear students, I wish you all success in the exam you will take and I invite you to take graphic design education in Edirne, the city of sultans.