PINEUP creates simplicity.

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Simplicity is not what is left when you remove things.

Founded

2009

Office

Levent, İstanbul

Team

27 people

Languages

EN / TR

Clients

45 brands to date

/ The agency

It is what remains when everything says the same thing.

Pine-up Medya has been working out of İstanbul since 2009. Most of what arrives here is not a blank page. It is a brand that has grown in six directions, each one signed off by a different team, and the first job is to read it rather than redraw it.

We write down where the brand actually stands before anything is designed. That document is unglamorous and it is the reason the work holds together later, when it is being produced by four suppliers in four languages with nobody from here in the room.

Twenty-seven people, and still no relay race. The person who presents the strategy writes the copy and stands on set. Technology, including AI, speeds up how much we can produce. It has never been allowed to make the decisions.

CuriosityCraftConsistencyCandourHuman potential
2009Working since
27People
45Brands to date
EN / TRWorking languages

/ How the work runs

Some engagements are a single commission: one film, one website, one identity. Others run for years, where the monthly report is the brief for the next month. Both are handled by the same people, which is the only way the second kind stays consistent.

We build and maintain our own admin panel rather than assembling client sites on off-the-shelf platforms, because the security surface of a hotel group or a bank is not something to outsource to a plugin directory.

/ And above all

We believe in human potential.

Read firstNothing gets designed before we can say where the brand stands in one paragraph.
One teamStrategy, copy and production sit with the same people from start to finish.
Built to be handed overA system the client’s own teams and suppliers can run correctly without us.

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