Rodin Alper Bingol

Rodin Alper Bingöl (born May 22, 1984), is a Turkish creative director, entrepreneur and business leader known with his works in advertisement, design, digital campaigns and social responsibility.

Bingöl was born in Istanbul in 1984. He had his first digital experiences in 1996 while he was building amateur web sites and web platforms which were the pioneers of the internet industry in Turkey. During his years in high school, becoming interested in acting, he took acting classes at the Stage of Kadıköy Public Training Center for two years.

In 2002, he graduated from the mechanical department of the Haydarpaşa Anatolian Technical High School. He worked as a designer and instructor at the Bilge Adam Computer Education Center in his last year at high school. Excelling at his business life by becoming an art director, he decided to leave the Center in 2003.

He continued his education at the Faculty of Visual Communication Design at the Istanbul Bilgi University. In his first year, he established Colors of Bilgi, one of the most active and efficient student clubs of the Istanbul Bilgi University. As the general coordinator and the art director of the magazine published by the Club, he organized photo shoots and interviews with public figures such as Cem Yılmaz, Serdar Erener, Metin Arolat ve Ali Nesin and got the chance to use his passion for photography. As the first student from the Faculty of Communication who participated in the elections, he was the leader and the creative director of the advertising campaigns of the team “Bilgistanbul” in the 2007 Student Union Elections.

Between 2004 and 2006 he cofounded Colors of USA, the first online Work and Travel firm in Turkey. He traveled to many countries, including United States of America, England and Mexico for business and marketing purposes.

Besides his education, he took part in many different projects as the art and project director. He worked with artists such as Tarkan, Cem Yılmaz, Çağan Irmak and Zeki Demirkubuz; he designed and executed web sites, movie posters and advertising campaigns by creating unique concepts. He contributed to the projects of some of the biggest companies including Swiss Hotel, Bilge Adam, Aviva, Tüpraş and Ülker. The official movie posters for Çağan Irmak's Issız Adam, Zeki Demirkubuz's Envy and Tuna Kiremitçi's Adını Sen Koy were some of the creative works done by Bingöl in this period of time.

While he was still a student, he gave lectures at the Marmara University in the 2008-2009 academic year, focusing on Digital Marketing and Media Technologies. Described as a “Young Talent” by various media organizations, Bingöl gave interviews to widely read magazines such as Trensetter, Marketing Türkiye, Boxer and Cosmogirl. ...

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