About Semih Mert
Senior Graphic & Motion Designer with over 13 years of experience creating bold, immersive, and story-driven visuals. My work spans brand identity, motion graphics, photography, video production, and drone cinematography.For the past nine years, I’ve worked in the casino & hospitality industry, where I developed fast, impactful, high-quality creative solutions for complex and high-pressure environments.
Kurdish
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Conversational
German
Basic
Can work on-site
Velbert (up to 10km), Düsseldorf (up to 10km), Cologne (up to 10km), Essen (up to 10km), Dortmund (up to 10km)
Experience
- Concorde CasinosHead of Advertising & Media DepartmentNovember 2020 - Today (5 years and 7 months)Nicosia, CyprusManaged all advertising, design, and visual communication for the casino division of a group operating 3 hotels and casinos. Oversaw creative production for tournaments, raffles, concerts, and promotional campaigns across digital and print media.,Directed the shooting and promotion of ~90 concerts annually, including video editing and motion content.Supervised all casino social media accounts and websites, ensuring brand consistency and timely updates across channels.
- Merit International Hotels&CasinosSenior Graphic DesignerJuly 2016 - December 2019 (3 years and 5 months)Kyrenia, CyprusServed as lead designer responsible for all creative output across 6 casinos and 7 hotels. Managed visual production for tournaments, concerts, raffles, promotions, and in-house campaigns.Handled digital and print designs for events, screens, social media, and corporate communication.Supported additional businesses under Net Holding — including the construction company, luxury transfer service, and tourism operations — ensuring consistent visual communication across all brands.
- Mitani Graphic ArtsArt DirectorJune 2015 - July 2016 (1 year and 1 month)Kusadasi, TürkiyeManaged all advertising activities of the agency, including client briefings, concept development, and coordination with the design team. Led the creation of advertising campaigns, logos, corporate identities, web designs, and digital media assets.Worked with major clients including leading Turkish construction companies, diamond manufacturers, luxury watch retailers, and textile brands.
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Education
- Bachelor's DegreeCyprus International University2011Graphic design education is at the intersection of communication, art, and design. Students first gain the ability to see and perceive through this artistic point of view. Then, throughout their education, they learn various methods and techniques in order to bring words, symbols, and images together to represent the visual expressions of thoughts and ideas, and form new formats. The department trains designers who are in harmony with the dynamic nature of our age. Students are also aesthetically and technically equipped with the ability to produce creative thinking and be confident and prepared for the contemporary requirements in areas such as product logos, envelopes, business cards, files, packaging designs, box designs, posters, interior designs, open air adverts, flyers, catalogs, corporate identities, brand positioning, web design, photos, print pictures and illustrations.