Moto is a small shop in Kadıköy where prints, original work and tattoos share one address. Behind every piece on the wall is an artist we know; we choose the work together and set its price together.
Moto’s origins
The founder’s first drawings were copied from cassette inlays and video-game manuals: media was still physical, and every cover, logo and loading screen felt like something a person had made by hand and left behind for you.
Growing up like that made images feel touchable. You traced them, tweaked them until they broke, and figured out how to fix them. Years of motion design later, that same carefree curiosity was still there — it just wanted to leave the screen.
Tattooing arrived the way most lasting things do: sideways. A borrowed machine, a few brave friends, and lines that behaved nothing like keyframes. It was clunky, experimental and strange, and it made drawing exciting again in a way software hadn’t for years.
Somewhere between client briefs and render queues, drawing pushed its way back in — this time through skin, in black-and-grey.
Black-and-grey became the core practice, with flash sheets as the fastest way to get drawings off paper and onto people. Moto started small: a folding table of prints, one tattoo bed, and a growing pile of designs waiting for the right walk-in.
The name came from motion — the discipline, but also the habit. Nothing at Moto stays still for long: flash sheets rotate, the shelves change, and the studio keeps redrawing itself. The name stuck.
The first tattoo machine bought years ago is still in use. It sits in the Kadıköy studio, next to the workstation and a shelf of flash, quietly humming, representing the inception of Moto.
Since then the practice has widened: black-and-grey custom work, rotating flash, motion pieces for local spots around Kadıköy, and a close circle of artists and solopreneurs who treat the studio as a second desk.
Next comes the space itself — a storefront, a tattoo studio and a room for rare gatherings, opening çok yakında in Kadıköy. Until then, years of drawing and motion work sit together in the Moto archive.
