Istanbul never stands still. New restaurants, galleries, design outlets and creative institutions are constantly springing up amid the commotion created by the metropolis’s 12m inhabitants. Selected as the 2010 European Capital of Culture, Istanbul has been working hard to live up to the accolade. Here Seyhan Özdemir and Sefer Çaglar of Autoban discuss how the mixture of old and new gives the city its distinctive design flavour. Video work and music by Volkan Ergen and Kaya Hacaloglu