Ayse Birsel

Designer New York / United States

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Ayse Birsel
Ayse Birsel is the Co-founder and Creative Director of the award-winning design and innovation studio, Birsel+Seck, and the creator of Design the Life You Love, a coursework and book that teaches non-designers how to create a meaningful life using her design process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction™, and its tools. Ayse has been designing award-winning products for over twenty years. Called the “Queen of Toilets” and “Queen Bee” for her innovative products, she is known for bringing new solutions to old problems and for her humanistic design approach.

A blend of east and west, she was born and raised in Turkey, and now calls New York her home since coming here on a Fulbright Scholarship 20+ years ago to attend Pratt Institute. She lives there with her husband and partner, Bibi Seck, and their three children, who continue to inspire her life’s design. Ayse is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2001 Young Designers Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Ayse Birsel
Ayse Birsel
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Ayse Birsel is the Co-founder and Creative Director of the award-winning design and innovation studio, Birsel+Seck, and the creator of Design the Life You Love, a coursework and book that teaches non-designers how to create a meaningful life using her design process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction™, and its tools. Ayse has been designing award-winning products for over twenty years. Called the “Queen of Toilets” and “Queen Bee” for her innovative products, she is known for bringing new solutions to old problems and for her humanistic design approach. A blend of east and west, she was born and raised in Turkey, and now calls New York her home since coming here on a Fulbright Scholarship 20+ years ago to attend Pratt Institute. She lives there with her husband and partner, Bibi Seck, and their three children, who continue to inspire her life’s design. Ayse is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2001 Young Designers Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Athena Award for Excellence in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.