● Training · 4-hour workshop

Sıfırdan Canva

On 17 February 2026 I designed and delivered a 4-hour “Canva from Scratch” workshop for university students and participants at Akdeniz University’s Entrepreneur Career Office. Instead of a tool tour I built the session as a brand journey: I produced every step live, from the mood board of the fictional Odin Coffee brand to its logo system and applications.

4 saworkshop

4logo variants

3applied designs

Client: Akdeniz University Entrepreneur Career Office · Antalya
Period: February 2026
My role: Guest instructor & workshop lead
Scope: Training programme designCanva workshopDemo brand identityMood board & art direction
Tools: Canva Photoshop Illustrator Gemini

Project showcase14 pieces · Click to enlarge

Goal

Most participants were students without a design background. My goal was that after four hours everyone could use Canva not just as a template filler but as a workspace for building a consistent brand language. So I structured the session around building one brand from start to finish rather than feature by feature, moving between live demos and one-to-one support at the desks while participants repeated every step on their own laptops.

Demo brand: Odin Coffee

For the workshop I created an atmospheric, black-and-white coffee brand drawn from Norse mythology: Odin’s ravens, a misty forest and a concrete café. I generated the mood board images with Gemini, and they became the reference that set the brand’s colour, texture and tone. That way participants saw how to define how a brand feels before moving into design.

Logo system and applications

I built the logo system in Canva with four uses: horizontal, vertical, symbol and typographic. Then I carried the same system into three applications: the “Premium Coffee” poster, a new menu design and a social media collage. The aim was to show step by step how one system stays consistent across formats, and to leave participants with a method they could apply to their own brands.