KIKI DE VENUS receives two prestigious Platinum Hermes Creative Awards in "Book" and "Illustration/graphic design" categories

On 1 May 2015, Hermes Creative Awards announced winners for the 2015 international awards competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging media. Hermes Creative Awards recognizes outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals.

Nellie Kartoglu/Deniz Nala Kartoglu received Platinum Hermes Creative Award in “book” category while Deniz Nala Kartoglu also received Platinum Hermes Creative Award in “illustration/graphic design” category.

There were over 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the Hermes Creative Awards 2015 competition. Entries came from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.

Hermes Creative Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, media production and free-lance professionals. AMCP oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and rewards outstanding achievement and service to the profession.

As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public service and charitable organizations. Hermes entrants are not charged entry fees to enter work they produced pro bono. In addition, the efforts of generous marketing and communication professionals are acknowledged through grants and special recognition.

AMCP judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. Winners were selected from 195 categories grouped under advertising, publications, marketing/branding, integrated marketing, public relations/communications, electronic media and pro bono. A list of Platinum and Gold Winners can be found on the Hermes Creative Awards website.

Kiki goes to "End of Year Children's Party"

End of Year Children’s Party

Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 09:00-16:30, Main Hall, World Health Organization, Geneva

KIKI comes all the way from Venus to meet kids at the “End of Year Children’s Party” at WHO. Kiki’s creators will be there for an autographed book. Kids will draw their Kiki together with Deniz Nala. A big surprize is a real size Kiki to take pictures with.  

Kiki De Venus goes to 20th UN Solidarity Fair (10 December 2014, Geneva)

Photographs from the 20th UN Solidarity Fair, 10 December 2014, WHO, Geneva

Kiki De Venus goes to 20th UN Solidarity Fair

20th UN Solidarity Fair, 10 December 2014, 11:00-14:00Hall of main WHO building, Geneva

The traditional Solidarity Fair will celebrate its 20th year on 10 December 2014. There will be music by Lauri Jalanti, delicious specialties from Asia and Africa, a tombola organized by the Association of Former WHO Staff Members, and a bake sale. KIKI DE VENUS will meet international friends. Authors Nellie and Deniz Nala Kartoglu will be there to sign books.

New KIKI DE VENUS video

Deniz Nala tells the story of Kiki De Venus with a short animation...

Kiki De Venus lives with her mom on the planet of Venus. She often takes a space shuttle to visit her dad on Mars. Each time she passes Earth on these journeys, Kiki is mesmerized by the life of the Earthians. One day she slips away from the space shuttle and parachutes down to Earth. Kiki meets a space dog Snooty Pooch, who introduces her to a very special thing the Earthians are known for – music. Music brings them to Cutie Boop, a girl who loves to dream with shooting stars.

Kiki De Venus from Kiki de Venus on Vimeo.

Where does Kiki come from?

Dear Friends, 

We feel very privileged to announce the publication of our first children's book “Kiki De Venus”!

I have written the story of Kiki from the amusing characters imagined and drawn by Deniz Nala Kartoglu when she was still a little girl.

This book is an outcome of the night-time story telling, which has turned out to be the most amazing bonding experience for both of us.

Years back it would have been difficult for me to imagine that my self-made princesses stories would feed the drawing fantasy – the most precious gift inherited by Deniz from her daddy, Umit Kartoglu

Although Kiki has been through many exciting adventures over the past years, it is only lately however that we decided to share some of those adventures with you and others.

We both believe that no matter where Kiki is her destination is “bonding” in every single sense of it, which also includes the best bonding time that you might have with your child reading the story.

Deniz told me that as a child when she would dose off long before the story was over, her princesses adventures would take their own most unpredictable turn and this is how we now have Kiki, Cutie Boop, Snooty Pooch and many other characters. We subdivided the story in such a way that if your child falls asleep at any time, the magic of imagination would do its wonders. Who knows how many more amazing adventures Kiki could take on!

We invite you to taste the pleasure of the true bonding by taking off on Kiki’s adventures!

The book is now available in an electronic version from all major on-line book stores, printed copies are on the way!

We should be delighted to see you visiting our website, where you could go through our gallery, play a memory game, twitter and blog us, as well as connect to us on Facebook.

We also offer you a glimpse into the illustration process – a minute-and-a-half video of Deniz illustrating one of the episodes. The legendary Javier Mas has generously offered his amazing guitar for this video. For those of you who might not have heard of Javier, Javier Mas has been playing with and for Leonard Cohen since many years as well as offered his master guitar to many other singers.

With affection,
Nellie and Deniz Nala Kartoglu

Kiki De Venus website launched

With the arrival of the sample copy of the Kiki de Venus book, Nellie and Deniz Nala launched the KIKI DE VENUS official website...

http://kikidevenus.com/

The site includes the story of the book, about the authors, contact details, upcoming events, image and video gallery as well as a memory game "Kiki Pairs".