Dribbble Shot Block Coffee

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Dribbble Shot Block Coffee

Honored and excited to be featured in the Dribbble Shot Block article centered on coffee! Below is an extract about my studio from the article.

Search “coffee” on Dribbble, and you’ll find a notable number of coffee shots from Barcelona-based designer Salih Kucukaga. For him, branding coffee offers a chance to pay homage to a product he loves. “Coffee is not just a drink for me, it’s a passion,” he told Dribbble. “Coffee was first spread to the world from my home country, Istanbul. I beleive this may be the reason for my passion.”

“I love the culture of coffee — to make it, to taste it, to present it — everything about coffee. And I have been lucky enough to work with some great people who share this same love.”

Read the whole article here.

It's always an honor to be featured on the Graphic-Exchange. Thank you for the post Fabian! I wish you the best of luck in this new chapter of your life in the beautiful Arles. Looking forward to catching up again soon! Read Fabian's full post here.

Salih Kucukaga & Fabien Barral

Walter Magazine & 2104 Letterpress Calendar

Streets of Arles, France

I recently made a two day road trip to Southern France from Barcelona where I have recently been living. I visited the French designer & writer Fabian Barral AKA Mr.Cup while on my trip. I’ve always been a huge fan of his work and impressed by his passion on design since the early days of his design blog; Graphic-Exchange. It was finally great meeting him in person in the beautiful historic town of Arles in Southern France. We talked about recent design projects we are both working on, the life style and culture in Arles and his new design magazine Walter Mag. He also kindly asked me to participate in his legendary letterpress calendar for 2016 which I’m super stoked about it!

I’m honored to have 8 logos I designed for Function Coffee, Bare Rea Co., Wunderpass, Espresso Republic, Fabrikk, Dream Clothing, The Snug and Spori.com were featured within the Counter-Print book’s latest book; Modern Heraldry.

I'm now accepting applications for an intern or junior designer to come work with me part-time at my new studio in the La Barceloneta, BCN, Spain. Send your applications here: www.salihkucukaga.com/contact

New country, new city, new journey... I’m stoked to announce that I recently moved to the great city of Barcelona. Below is the business card I’ll be using while I’m in Barcelona. I'm looking forward to exploring the city and the design scene here...

Very excited about the launch of my fabulous client’s new brand Huel. I was hired to do the branding & packaging for Huel which is nutritionally complete powdered food​ ​that contains all the protein, carbs, fats, vitamins and minerals your body needs​. Very excited to see the project is finally live and you can now order Huel at: http://huel.me/products/huel and the branded merch at http://huel.me/collections/merch

Union Station Los Angeles

One of the great benefits of living in Downtown Los Angeles is the opportunity to see amazing architecture. I’m especially a huge fan of Art Deco and Mid Century Modern themes. The Union Station is certainly one of my favorite buildings in Downtown LA. The consistent Art Deco themes are inspiring. It was designed by the brilliant John Parkinson who designed most of LA’s other iconic buildings: The City Hall, The Rowan and LA Memorial Coliseum, to name a few.

I’m excited about this new illustration series of Downtown LA that I've started with Union Station.

More to come! PS. I posted a few photos of Union Station on to my photo diary. Click here to see.

So honored to be featured again on 365awesomedesigners.com. A couple of years ago I was named awesome designer #250 on 365AD. It's great to be on the list again this year. 365 Awesome Designer is a curated collection of talent that features one designer each day for one year.