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Health to Your Hands
In our Patterns Galore Expertise course, we were asked to create an original pattern over four days, inspired by a chosen text. I personally selected a poem titled La Traductora, written by an Argentinian poet friend. While designing, I focused on blending elements from both Turkish and Argentinian cultures. At the heart of the pattern is a phrase often used in Turkish “ellerine sağlık” which translates to “health to your hands” and expresses gratitude for someone’s effort. Emphasizing themes of friendship, I designed a set of patterns for picnic items such as cups, plates, a picnic box, a picnic blanket and its packaging.
In our first exercise, we created a pattern by cutting a paper into four pieces, rearranging them with their symmetrical counterparts, and taping them back together for a design experiment.
LA TRADUCTORA
Qué haré con estas manos,
tan hábiles, nacidas para el amor.
Rebuscan unas monedas, arrugan un boleto,
escriben una nota y abren una fruta.
Ellerine saglik; me enseñó Ipek en turco.
Significa salud a tus manos.
Se pronuncia luego de una cena extraordinaria,
en agradecimiento, cuando las berenjenas se deshacen
salud a tus manos y lo anota en mi cuaderno.
Al lado, garabatea gezgin, viajera.
Prometimos encontrarnos en otra ciudad;
intercambiamos palabras en nuestras lenguas,
confesiones, secretos e historias
como solo dos mujeres pueden hacerlo.
THE TRANSLATOR
What will I do with these hands,
so skilled, born for love.
They rummage for coins, crumple a ticket,
write a note and peel a fruit.
Ellerine sağlık; Ipek taught me in Turkish.
It means health to your hands.
It's said after an extraordinary dinner,
in gratitude, when the eggplants fall apart,
health to your hands, and she writes it in my notebook.
Besides it, she scribbles gezgin, traveler.
We promised to meet in another city;
we exchanged words in our languages,confessions, secrets, and stories
confessions, secrets, and stories
as only two women can do.
©ipek ilayda bellisan
©ipek ilayda bellisan
This project was quite personal and meaningful for me, as it represents a friendship that began with a short encounter and has continued for over eight years. As a 3D designer trying to engage more with 2D work during my master’s studies, I learned a great deal about both pattern design and digital tools throughout this process. Although the project has room for further development, it became a very inspiring starting point for me in the world of 2D design.
Ein Projekt von
ipek ilayda bellisan
Fachgruppe
Intermediales DesignArt des Projekts
Studienarbeit im Masterstudium
Betreuer_in
Mauricio Sosa Noreña
Zugehöriger Workspace
EXP1 - Patterns Galore! The literary editionEntstehungszeitraum
Sommersemester 2025