education

Middle East Technical University Ankara/Turkey
Industrial Design 2015-2020
Braunschweig University of Art Braunschweig/Germany
Design in the Digital Society 2019 Erasmus

experience

TEPTA Lighting design coordinator
2025-2026
leading the team of industrial designers,
designing brand new lighting products and developing custom designs,
closely working with production and sales.
Personal Projects (disclosed) designer
2023-on going
had a personal time-off from full-time working to focus on both on digital product and
ecological design solutions.
TEPTA Lighting industrial designer
2021-2023
created lighting concepts,
managed production details and projects,
guided sales department and customers from design to manufacturing.
Red Yacht Design digital designer
2021
designed yacht exteriors,
improved workflow efficiency through automation tools.
Saken Glass and Design industrial designer
2020-2021
managed production for lighting designs and bespoke glass projects,
created visual designs for sales, and managed e-commerce platforms,
tracked internal processes to ensure efficient workflow,
designed conceptual yacht arrangements and interiors.

awards and exhibitions

Industrial Design Contests İMMİB 2023
award - 2nd place
Meditent - natural disasters and emergencies
Industrial Design Graduation Projects Exhibition TMMOB 2020
exhibition - Design for Daily Life
with the graduation project "Roof-Dishwashing Unit"
Studio Digitale Medien HBK BS Rundgang 2019
exhibition - Claiming Spaces & Virtual Experiences
with the generative video-mapping project "Perspectivenspiel"
Design in der Digitalen Gesellschaft HBK BS Rundgang 2019
exhibition
with the project "3D Printed Prosthesis Hands - Robotel"

selected projects

emergency shelter for natural disasters
dishwashing unit for small living spaces

enes yılmaz.

i graduated from Middle East Technical University in 2020. since then, i've worked as a designer in several companies within the decorative and lighting industries. for the past year, i've been working as a design coordinator for a humble team of designers at a leading lighting distributor in Turkey.

user research/

human-centric design/

generative design/

parametric modelling/

CAD for fabrication/

lighting design/

Enes Yılmaz