Thymos

Our identity for Thymos Publishing has been shortlisted in five categories at The Drum Awards for Design 2026, recognising its approach to brand strategy, visual identity, typography, writing and visual storytelling.

Five nominations. One cohesive idea.

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The European Design Agencies League 2026 ranks Ba’ndo #1 in Türkiye once again, among 101 design studios from 22 countries.

Measured across five years of work, from 2022 to 2026.

Consistency has a way of showing up.

Ba’ndo has been ranked #39 in The Drum’s Indie 100 2026, a global ranking of independent agencies measured across creative performance, awards success and verified client satisfaction.

This year’s list spans agencies from Auckland to New York, with Ba’ndo represented from London.

Nippon’s “Why the Rush?” received a Merit in Brand and Communication Design at the ADC 105th Annual Awards.

The work sets matcha’s slow ritual against the speed the category usually sells.

An essay published on MAD, in Turkish, on what generative tools change in a designer’s work.

The argument: once the fear passes, what is left is judgement — knowing why a decision is right and being able to defend it.

Nippon took three recognitions in the design categories at The Drum Design Awards 2025, including Gold.

A brand built on slowness, judged in a room that rewards speed.

The Drum Honors is the year-end review of the companies, people and work that performed best across The Drum’s global awards programme.

Ba’ndo is on the 2025 list.

Three Ba’ndo projects were shortlisted in the design categories at The Drum Awards 2025.

Ba’ndo project manager Sude Akkaya wrote for The Drum on how connected TV changes what a campaign has to do.

The piece argues for designing not only for the screen, but for the cultural context the screen sits in.

Three Ba’ndo projects took four awards at the Brandverse Awards 2025.

MAD won Gold at the European Design Awards, announced at the European Design Festival in Ljubljana, 5–8 June 2025.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru attended D&AD 2025 and wrote about it for Ad Just Brand, in Turkish.

D&AD has judged advertising, design and communication work since 1962; its Pencils are one of the industry’s stricter definitions of quality.

MAD advanced to Round 2 in two categories at the 2025 ADC Annual Awards.

MAD was nominated in two categories at the European Design Awards 2025.

Ba’ndo is listed among The Drum’s Recommended Agencies, a directory built on client reviews and verified work.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru joined students at the 21st Kampüste Reklam Var, organised by the Anadolu University communication club.

The talk covered how a brand gets built, and what the work looks like before it looks finished.

Seventeen awards, two shortlists, and features in the international design press.

The work behind them is in the portfolio.

Creative Bloq listed MAD’s logo among the design trends shaping 2025, describing it as big, bold and quirky.

A conversation with The Brand Identity about how the studio started, what makes a project worth taking, and the community built around it.

Two things decide whether the work happens: it has to excite the team, and it has to have something to say.

Five Ba’ndo projects were selected at the 43rd GMK Graphic Design Awards, the longest-running design awards in Türkiye.

MAD, the digital news platform, won first place in the branding category at the Felis Awards 2024.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru served on the jury of the Altın Örümcek Web Awards.

Ba’ndo took part in the 36th Kristal Elma, Türkiye’s longest-running creativity festival.

MAD was shortlisted in the Brand Identity category and one further category at The Drum Awards 2024.

It’s Nice That published “Building Mad: Ba’ndo’s dive into eccentric brand design”.

The piece reads the identity as a system built for a platform where creative minds collide — boldness with a structure underneath it.

PRINT Magazine covered the brand system built for MAD: illustrations, animations and mascots drawn from the letters of the logo.

The result is a voice that stays energetic without losing its grammar.

Creative Review published the identity designed for MAD, a platform where design, advertising and marketing meet.

The icon language is drawn from lines that can be recombined — originality with a retrospective view.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru served on the craft jury at the Felis Awards.

Brand New, UnderConsideration’s review of brand work, published the new logo and identity for MAD.

Content Director Bahar Nihal Ersözlü wrote for ekoIQ, in Turkish, on how deepfake technology shapes public perception of climate change.

As synthetic audio and video get cheaper to make, the cost of doubt gets lower too.

A conversation with Creative Director Emrah Doğru about how the studio works, covering QNB Finansbank’s Dünyayla1 platform, Haliç University’s brand system and the Tolerance Break work.

Published in Turkish.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru joined the jury of the Brandverse Awards, one of Türkiye’s digital award programmes.

The thirteenth issue of the Beyond Sustainability newsletter is out.

It follows what companies actually change when they commit to environmental targets, rather than what they announce.

Ba’ndo won two awards at the Istanbul Marketing Awards 2023.

Creative Director Emrah Doğru spoke at the Istanbul Marketing Summit 2023, held under the theme Better Tomorrow.

Ba’ndo work was selected in three categories at the 42nd GMK Graphic Design Awards.

Free diving world champion Şahika Ercümen joined QNB Finansbank’s Dünyayla1 platform.

Dünyayla1 is the bank’s sustainability programme; Ba’ndo built the platform under B’Future.

A 34-track playlist put together around one city, across genres.

Made for the studio, left public.

QNB Finansbank announced Dünyayla1, its sustainability platform, built with Ba’ndo under B’Future.

The brief was communications. What the bank needed first was a name and a structure its own teams could keep using.

Two awards went to the Alaaddin project and one to the Istanbul Marketing Summit work at the Brandverse Awards 2023.

Ba’ndo began working with Akbank on reputation management under B’Future, supporting senior executives on sustainable growth and public communication.

Ba’ndo closed 2022 with fourteen awards across client work.

QNB Finansbank selected Ba’ndo as its agency for sustainability communications.

Three Ba’ndo projects were selected as winners at the 41st GMK Annual Design Awards.

Comfortnoise is a creative music and sound production studio founded by composer-producer Ahmet Kenan Bilgiç, working out of London and Istanbul.

The new site is online.

The full Brickery project is now in the portfolio.

The Kilim Denim website won Bronze in the Beauty & Fashion category at the 20th Altın Örümcek Web Awards.

Haliç University is a foundation university on Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula.

A university is a dozen faculties that each believe they are the brand. The structure had to hold all of them without flattening any.

Havaş asked for its website to be restructured: a complicated layout rebuilt around what people actually come to do.

A website for Alaaddin, one of Türkiye’s established independent agencies, built to fit how they work.

Ba’ndo won at the Istanbul Marketing Awards 2021, with work built on the idea of equal footing.

The Tolerance Break album cover won Best Album Cover Design at the 40th GMK Awards.

The second issue of HütHüt, the magazine published by Ba’ndo Lab, is out.

The theme is pleasure: what is temporary, what stays, what is produced and what is consumed.

Lab Meetings is an open session series run by Ba’ndo Lab’s rookies.

The recordings are online.

An account of the Ba’ndo Lab Rookie Camp, written by one of the people who went through it.

Ba’ndo won the Gold award for Sustainability Communication at the Istanbul Marketing Awards 2020.

The Sertaç Özgümüş website won an Achievement Award at Felis 2020, in digital UI/UX design.

The second issue of HütHüt is open for submissions.

Send work.

An experiential site built for Hadise’s single Küçük Bir Yol.

A guidebook written out of necessity: one place where rookies and experienced designers work from the same rules.

Early works and a manifesto, built on the Suprematism of Malevich and pushed somewhere else.

Co-founder Emrah Doğru’s talk from the Istanbul Marketing Summit 2019.

Ba’ndo won Silver in the Microsite of the Year category at the Altın Örümcek Web Awards 2020.

A reading recommendation: DesignBetter’s guide to remote practice, on what changes when a design team stops sharing a room.

A new episode of the Ba’ndo Talks podcast is online.

A browser add-on from Ba’ndo Lab that applies golden-ratio proportions to type, built for designers who set their own scales.

The Sertaç Özgümüş website won Bronze at Kristal Elma 2019, in digital, social media and activation.