GEEKS34 · ISTANBUL · 2020 — 2025
STORYPRESENCE
Five years of stories. The last one was mine.
Geeks34 is the agency I founded in Istanbul. It started with a camera and an idea in the middle of COVID, and grew into a team, a studio, and clients from real estate to fashion to tech. Here is the whole story, scene by scene.
Founder & creative director
One last sale. Then everything stopped.
In 2019 I was selling real estate in Istanbul. Good work, clients who trusted me, a big team. But it wasn’t me. I came from theatre, directing and the image.
Then COVID came. This photo is from the last sale I made at the start of the pandemic, gloves still on.
At home, with Start With Why, the question came back: why am I doing what I do?
In the middle of the pandemic, we started.
While companies were closing their offices, we started as two: me, and a friend who believed in the idea from day one. No office, just home and coffee shops. The first clients came from people who knew me from real estate.
The name
People obsessed with the details of their craft. They love to experiment and never stop learning.
Istanbul’s number on Turkish licence plates. The city that took us in.
Not one person who knows everything. A group of people, each a Geek at their own thing.
A year and a half in, I sat in front of the camera.
An orange coffee cup, and a team that kept growing. A short video in my own voice about why we started and where we were going.
“the goal in Geeks34 is not to be just another typical agency”
Ahmad, 2022“I hope we’ll be able to tell more and more stories”
Ahmad, 2022
Three acts, each one taught me something.
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2020 — 2021
AS GEEKY AS IT GETS
Video production
Real estate commercials, company videos and travel vlogs. Every project was a lesson, and every lesson led to a bigger project.
Parima · New Horizons · High Step -
2021 — 2023
THE FULL AGENCY
A full agency
I learned that a client who wants an ad sometimes needs an identity first. So came identity, strategy, social, websites and events.
G2A · I’Blazer · Trade Mania · The Migrating Tastes -
2023 — 2025
CRAFTING SCENES
Story first
We went back to what we did best: the idea, the script, the direction. Not every service, just the scene people remember.
Founder campaign · Rebrand · The Honest
Films we made about ourselves, from the showreel to Halloween.
The profile, page by page.
The company booklet, in red and black. Scroll to turn the pages.
The websiteGEEKS34.COM
The rebrandCONCEPT · 2023
Each one has its own page.
G2AIdentity, films and events. Two and a half years.
I’BlazerA boutique, from the till to online payments.
Trade ManiaFour comedy episodes with Joe Trad.
CommercialsSix commercials, four companies.
The Migrating TastesA documentary: three kitchens, one table.
The HonestThe last production under Geeks34.
An empty studio. Then came a team.
When I first rented the studio it was empty, just me under the neon. Then the team came: camera operators, editors, designers, and people for social and production.
Brainstorming was part of every day. One idea led to the next, and the discussion never stopped at the first answer.
Our biggest shoot day.
- 10videographers
- 7photographers
- 8cameras
- FPVdrone
And I became the face of the agency.
Reels about the story behind every video, about FPV, and how we generate ideas. The first time I spoke on camera in my own voice, without knowing it was the start of Storyteller Darwish.
I hoped we’d tell more stories. We did.
Geeks34 presents… a story written after a long silence.
Commercials, films, events, a documentary. But the story still missing was my own.
As the chapter neared its end, I sat in front of the camera again. No coffee cup this time. And I told the truth: the fear, the doubt, and starting over. The Honest became the last production under Geeks34.
Crafting in progress.The final scene.
Watch The HonestThe chapter ended. The storytelling didn’t.
And to everyone who was a Geek at their craft: thank you.
I built an agency from zero. Now I build the story and the system with you.
Everything I learned in five years, from the idea to the team to production, now works as one method for your project.