“I am the drop that contains the ocean”  — Yunus Emre

emre
şahin

I build future-facing designs from the memory of where we come from.

Industrial & graphic designer and design engineer — founder of Explored Parallel, a studio building culture from heritage.

I design with identity.

Anyone can make a thing look good. What moves me is the story — where something comes from, and how to express it, give it material, and put it into the world. A thinker first; a designer and engineer by craft. That thread runs through everything I touch.

Things I've made

I work the way a storyteller works.

My days move between three rooms — the studio, the workshop, and the page. Trained as an industrial designer and design engineer — with years spent engineering chip-machine systems at ASML — I now run Explored Parallel from Den Haag: a social studio producing wearable goods, books, films and games drawn from heritage. Alongside it, I work on inclusion across the city.

— made by hand, in Emre Şahin's studio

The journey here

The door is open.

For commissions, collaborations, or just to compare notes on where design comes from.

© 2025 — Bekir Emre Şahin · Explored Parallel, Den Haag