Laz Güneşi ağustos

Who are we?

Founded as a boutique advertising agency in 1996, Ağustos became a small specialist team working around light, design, and digital operations. Today we bring selected lighting technologies into the Turkish market and help manufacturers make product, customer, and project data easier to run.


Short story

  1. 1996

    Ağustos was founded as a boutique advertising agency.

  2. 2005

    Started publishing PLD Türkiye (Professional Lighting Design) magazine. www.pldturkiye.com

  3. 2007

    Started organizing events focused on architectural lighting design. www.pldturkiye.com/pld-turkiye-etkinlikleri

  4. 2014

    Reshaped itself around the motto of introducing innovation to the lighting industry, and Ağustos Teknoloji was born.

  5. 2015

    Began consultancy services on digital transformation.


Team

Emre Güneş Emre Güneş

Co-founder

Emre Güneş

Born 1980. Industrial Engineer. Graduate of Galatasaray University. Played football at amateur level. Played drums with Kuanta, a band he co-founded. Speaks English and French.

After ten months in corporate life, he chose to build his career inside the family business. As editor of PLD Türkiye (Professional Lighting Design) magazine, he spent years reading, writing, drawing, traveling, observing, researching, and organizing events, all about lighting design.

Social media, new commerce, cloud technology, digital campaigns, SaaS; these were always his interests. An optimization obsessive. What he enjoys most: turning repetitive work into automated processes.

Since 2015, he has been providing digital transformation consultancy to leading lighting manufacturers.

Nur Güneş Nur Güneş

Co-founder

Nur Güneş

Born 1969 in İstanbul. Graduate of İstanbul University, Department of International Relations. Speaks English.

Interested in volleyball, photography, and cinema.

After five years as a manager in the corporate world, she founded Ağustos Advertising Agency in 1996.

Producer of the feature films Kar Beyaz (2010) and Düş Kırgınları (2017).

Since 2014 she has been working at Ağustos Teknoloji, which she co-founded.

H. Kağan Fırat H. Kağan Fırat

Lighting Consultant

H. Kağan Fırat

Born 1974 in İstanbul. Electrical engineer. Graduate of Istanbul Technical University, lighting branch. He completed his undergraduate studies in 1996 with a thesis on “General Lighting Applications with LEDs”, though most likely he fell in love with light the first time he opened his eyes.

Speaks English. Holds an MBA.

His journey with light, which began at university with stage lighting, lasted nearly twenty-five years across lighting companies, from sales to manufacturing, design to marketing. He looked for lighting solutions that speak the language of stone, wood, earth, and nature; that do no harm to what yesterday carried into today; designed around need; calm, harmonious, and under control. In 2019 he ended a long relationship with corporate life and decided to try something more independent.

The journey with light continues.

Banu Uçak Banu Uçak

Consultant

Banu Uçak

Born 1979. Master Architect. Graduate of Yıldız Technical University and Istanbul Technical University. Worked on archaeological digs, danced, traveled widely, wrote, and drew. Speaks English.

She spent fourteen years at the Yapı-Endüstri Merkezi (Building Information Centre) in nearly every role, finishing as Marketing and Business Development Coordinator. After serving as Deputy General Manager at Seranit Group and General Coordinator at Ferko Construction, she closed her private-sector career to be part of a freer kind of production. For five years she has been a jury member of the World Architecture Festival and a nominator for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She teaches part-time at Özyeğin University’s Faculty of Architecture, edits, and speaks at and juries seminars and conferences.

Architecture, the culture of architecture, B2B marketing in the construction sector, events, these have always been her interests. Passionate about everything beautiful made by human hands. What she enjoys most: walking through new cities with seeing eyes, thinking, writing, and drawing.