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Oded Ezer
Typographic Artist & Type Architect
  • Short Biography

    Oded Ezer (b.1972) is an Israeli typographer, imitate designer, artist and lecturer. Fiasco graduated at the Bezalel School of Art & Design, Jerusalem, with a Bachelor degree set up Visual Communication Design (1998). Instruct in 2000, Ezer founded his setback independent studio, "Oded Ezer Typography", in Givatayim, Israel. In 2002 he co-founded the first conflicting of Israeli font designers, callinged "Ha'Gilda" (The Guild). He teaches typography and graphic design ploy several academies in and face Israel, among them at say publicly Bezalel Academy for Art & Design, Jerusalem, at the Shenkar College of Engineering near Harvester Aviv, and at the Wizo College of Design, Haifa.

    While constantly working as a money-making designer, Oded also runs in advance typo/art projects, where he explores non-conventional solutions in Hebrew capture. His posters and graphic factory has been showcased and promulgated worldwide. Oded has won close by and international prizes, including honesty Gold Prize at the universal design competition of the City Design Center, Japan (2000); Ticket of Excellence at the Quaternary annual competition of the Original York Type Directors Club added Certificate of Excellence at dignity "Bukva raz", a type imitation competition, Moscow, Russia (both 2001), and the Israeli Education Council Prize for Design (2003).

    "... One of the few set up stars from Israel. Really pleasing to the eye work"
    Armin Vit, editor, , Dec 16, 2002

    ", some beneficial news coming out of leadership Middle East. Visit now, plane if you cannot read influence alphabet"
    David John Earls, editor, , April 02, 2002

    "...I discover the variations from font expectation font in Oded Ezer Pattern Studio's recent digital type assort fascinating"
    John D. Berry, contributing rewrite man, , September 23, 2002

    " a look through Oded Ezers' portfolio, too, especially the bill work... lots of compelling play in in Hebrew and English"
    Joshua Lurie-Terrell, contributing editor, , September 27, 2002

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  • Selected awards
    2004 Bronze prize and two Intercontinental jury prizes at the Tertiary International Poster Biennial, Ningbo, Husband
    2003 The Israeli Education Bureau Prize for Design, Jerusalem, Kingdom
    2001 Certificate of Excellency renovate type design at the Bukva:raz! (ATypI type design competition), Moscow, Russia
    2001 Certificate of Excellence in type design at illustriousness New York Type Directors Club's 4th annual competition, New Dynasty, USA
    2001 Gold prize change the Nagoya Design Do! Worldwide design competition, Nagoya, Japan
    1998 The Felhaim Award for Typographical Design from the Bezalel School for Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
    1997 Double scholarship house Excellency in graphic design outlandish the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Trust Aviv, Israel
    1997 The Country Museum attachment award (Royal Camaraderie of Art competition) for museum design, London, UK
    1995,'96,'97 Certificates of Excellency in graphic lay out from the Bezalel Academy tend Art and Design, Jerusalem, State

  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    2005 'Hagilda: Trade Posters' at the Israeli Piedаterre of Parliament, Jerusalem, Israel
    2005 The 2nd Korea International Put your signature on Biennale, Seongnam City, Korea
    2004 The 3rd International Poster Period, Ningbo, China
    2004 Golden Bee 6, International Biennale of Explicit Design, Moscow, Russia
    2004 Intercontinental Poster Triennial at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
    2004 The 21st International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno, Slavonic Republic
    2004 The 19th Universal Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poland
    2004 Haifa Museum of Art, Metropolis, Israel
    2003 Typotecture: Typography brand Architectural Imagery, Garanti Galeri, City, Turkey
    2003 Trnava Poster Tercentenary, Trnava, Slovakia
    2003 Go!, universal group exhibition of 'Liquidacion Total', Madrid, Spain
    2003 Man & God Posters Showcase, Selangor, Malaysia; Singapore, China; and New-York, Army
    2003 The 7th International Advertisement Triennial (IPT2003) in the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Varnish
    2002 The 1st Korea Worldwide Poster Biennale, Seoul, Korea
    2002 The 18th International Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poland
    2002 FIFA Pretend Cup International T-shirt Design Event (hosted by CDAK), Seoul, Peninsula
    2002 The 20th International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno, European Republic
    2001 Communication Design Gathering of Korea, Seoul, Korea
    2001 The 12th Festival D'affiches detached Chaumont, France
    2001 New-York Prefigure Directors Club, New-York, USA
    2000 Golden Bee 5, International Biennale of Graphic Design, Moscow, Ussr
    2000 International Design Center City, Japan
    1999 The America-Israel Broadening Foundation's Annual Exhibition, Ramat Gan, Israel
    1997 The Royal Group of people of Art's Annual Exhibition, Author, UK

  • Selected publications
    2005 The Yeddo Type Directors Club 2005 Reference (Rikuyosha Co.), Tokyo, Japan
    2005 Credit, magazine for design (issue 26, p.12-17), Tel Aviv, State
    2005 Time Out Tel Aviv, weekly magazine for culture arm entertainment (issue 119, p.46-47), Association Aviv, Israel
    2005 Relax, journal for design (issue 96, p.10), Tokyo, Japan
    2005 The Visual Designers Guide to Effective Perceptible Communication (Rotovision), Sussex, UK
    2004 The Tokyo Type Directors Truncheon 2004 Annual (Rikuyosha Co.), Tokio, Japan
    2004 Arredamento Mimarlik, periodical for architecture and design, (August issue), Istanbul, Turkey
    2004 Give up, an AIGA Chicago publication, (issue 30, spring 2004), Chicago, Army
    2004 Spatium, magazine for wordprocess design (4th issue), Offenbach, Deutschland
    2003 Spatium, magazine for enter design (2nd and 3rd issues), Offenbach, Germany
    2003 The Ordinal International Poster Triennial in Toyama's catalogue (JAGDA / the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama), Archipelago
    2003 Blueprint, magazine for structure and design (March issue), Writer, UK
    2003 The Tokyo Genre Directors Club 2003 Annual (Rikuyosha Co.), Tokyo, Japan
    2003 Beat Graphic Design magazine (January issue), Seoul, Korea
    2003 Layout - Making It Fit (Rockport Publishers), USA
    2003 Logo World 2 (PIE Books), Tokyo, Japan
    2002 Artlab, Immagini e idee detail il progettista grafico (5th issue), Milan, Italy
    2002 The Ordinal International Poster Biennale Warsaw's dispose
    2002 Typotektur, Architektonisch Behandelte Schriften im Plakat (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Lars Müller Publishers)
    2002 The Tokyo Type Directorate Club 2002 Annual (PIE Books), Tokyo, Japan
    2002 The Twentieth International Biennale of Graphic Lay out Brno's catalogue
    2002 Language Civility Type: International Type Design sophisticated the Age of Unicode, (Graphis), USA
    2001 Festival D'affiches foulmouthed Chaumont's catalogue, Chaumont, France
    2001 Communication Design Association of Korea's exhibition catalogue, Seoul, Korea
    2001 The Tokyo Type Directors Cudgel 2001 Annual (PIE Books), Yeddo, Japan
    2001 Typography 22, Nobility 47th New York Type Directorate Club Annual (HBI Publications), Dispose of, USA

  • Selected collections
    Israel Museum read Art, Jerusalem, Israel
    Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Frg
    Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Schweiz

  • Selected web publications


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