Oya Karabal Rapayazdıç

Oya Karabal Rapayazdıç is an Istanbul-based prop stylist, art director and graphic designer.

After graduating from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Graphic Design Department, she worked for major advertising agencies such as BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and Wunderman as a senior art director, creative group head and creative director. She has many advertising and graphic design awards.

In 2007, while managing her own family home building project, she fell in love with decoration and home styling. During her visits to cities like London, Barcelona, Amsterdam, South of France, Bangkok, New Delhi and Bali, she collected lots of prop materials and decorative objects. She then started to work as a prop stylist, art director and graphic designer in her photography studio, in Istanbul. She teaches Food Styling for Visual Media Course at Özyeğin University, Applied Sciences Faculty, Gastronomy Department from 2018.