Yücel has got his under graduate degree in Graphic Design, in Istanbul and his Masters in Communication Design from Pratt, Brooklyn NY. Yücel has been illustrating decades, along with painting. Yücel has fallen in love with etching first, then silk screen, he has been combining those two disciplines in his illustrations. His recent work birds over 400 of them would migrate 5 continents in year 2011.

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