COGUZ is the creative design studio by Cankat Oguz,
working across all design fields from brand systems and digital experiences to interactive storytelling, motion and AI-driven production.
Collabrating with studios, agencies, and teams to design important things you need to see.
COGUZ operates across all design disciplines; brand design, digital experiences, interactive storytelling, and AI-driven production. From concept to execution, I collaborate with studios, agencies, and teams to shape ideas into brand systems, websites, campaigns, films, and tools.
DESIGNING IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO SEE…
Branding, Identity & Visual Systems
Digital & Interactive Experiences
Creative Direction & Art Direction
Motion, Film, Animation
AI-Driven Design & Production
Concept, Strategy & Ideas
LATEST
Knorr’s Mac and Cheese: It’s delicious no matter where you look at it.
Together with Pixiu Agency, we cooked probably one of the most delicious hybrid-AI commercials I’ve ever produced: Knorr’s Mac & Cheese Ad.
Pixiu Agency: Rebranding for the new era.
Re-branding and identity for Pixiu’s transformation from Digital to Agency.
Greymatter: Control the narrative
Brand identity for Greymatter, a new-age influencer agency.
For people who are tired, functional, overthinking, under-slept…
Branding for Good Nerves; It will not fix your inbox, your rent, your relationship, your sleep, or the thing you said three years ago and still occasionally remember.
FEATURED
Kaidan: The Rengoku Legends
A fantasy world where Cosmic Horror meets Sengoku period Japan… Enter the Kaidan Universe; a mesmerizing IP created by Connor Sheehan and Drasko V. Branding of the IP, digital works and more…
Tonecraft. Transforming silence into unappreciated effort…
Design of Tonecraft; an innovative music creation game developed by Dinahmoe, where players can build soundscapes, much like constructing a musical composition with some Minecraft blocks.
Re-imagining a part of the internet history.
Re-design and branding for the new Plink; the famous multiplayer music experience by Dinahmoe, still played by a great fan crowd and declared as a part of internet history.
HIGHLIGHTS
Formula 1 Istanbul GP : Designing the Trophy; Injected speed, style, and a dash of Turkish flair…
As a die-hard F1 fan myself (no), I injected speed, style, and a dash of Turkish flair into every detail, ensuring that fans and racers alike had a blast.
Dinahmoe: Branding of the world’s one of the most awarded companies.
Late-night brainstorming sessions fueled by too much coffee and a few impromptu dance-offs to shake off the creative blocks resulted in a new branding, a new design system, a fresh website, and some touches here and there.
I.C.E. : “The most extreme brand that I’ve ever designed.”
Deviant hand-crafted ice-creams for millennials, hipsters, rebels, contrarians, trolls, and people with broken hearts. Discover Ice Cream Extreme; “the most extreme brand that I’ve ever designed.”
ONCE I BURNED MY ART DIPLOMA IN AN ART GALLERY IN FRONT OF THE ART PROFESSORS.
…AND THEY CALLED IT PERFORMANCE ART.
…and the performance art.
cankatoguz.com
cankatoguz.com represents my second take to the concept of personal websites after the first (and now ancient) version of coguz.com. All designed and developed by me; it’s a personal stance aganist the websites without a soul; earned me my first individual FWA award; with tears and memories in every pixel.
SCRAPS
These pieces are the product of spontaneous creativity, from random tests and experimental animations to art projects, serving no grand purpose other than to entertain and amuse. Maybe not even these either.
SPA
A short film about nothing relaxing at all. 5 stars for ambiance. 0 for emotional recovery.
ARI
A great price was paid, just so you can become a bee. A music video for a dark techno track that doesn’t exist – because we were the maniacs of the future.
COGUZ.STUDIO
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