Oded Ezer launches a collection of nine ketubot in collaboration with NewKetubah.com, in an effort to re-imagine the Jewish marriage certificate. The ketubah is a document used in Jewish weddings, traditionally as a legal contract and more broadly as a statement of commitment, ritual object, and work of art. It has always reflected…
Eight typographic video works, originally created by Oded Ezer for the multi-dimensional exhibition, Memory Palace At the V&A Museum, are now being displayed at A Collection of Ideas, an exhibition of works that have been acquired recently by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. The exhibition is organized by…
“How do you find escape routes to creativity in the middle of the Middle East?” Travel with Oded Ezer through his world of Design Fiction, visiting Biotypography, Typo Shamanism, Typosperma and other landmarks. In the second half of his talk, Ezer will discuss the typographic videos he recently presented…
Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design is one of the oldest and best-known colleges of art and design in the U.S. This upcoming fall semester Oded Ezer will bring his talents to RISD for a residency. On campus, Ezer will be teaching a course on typography. While in residence, Ezer will have two…
Interpreting a series of the protagonist’s misremembered definitions, Oded Ezer will be presenting eight short typographic videos in Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a multi-dimensional exhibition, in which 20 leading graphic designers, typographers and illustrators bring alive Hari Kunzru’s work of fiction. Kunzru’s story is set in…
The Design Lab at Design Museum Holon is hosting Oded Ezer, who will be leading a typography workshop for third-year students from HIT’s Department of Visual Communications. The workshop will provide the students with tools for original typographic creation based on the principles of the Hebrew letter. The four…
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, has announced Memory Palace exhibition, to be opened 18 June 2013. Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace is a walk-in story that brings to life a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru. This narrative world is visualised through a series of commissions…
Oded Ezer’s conceptual videos The Note and G.D.I.B mark new direction for his experimental work. The Note showing Ezer burning a piece of paper that ironically reads “I could tell you what good design is, but then I’d have to kill you” (paraphrasing the famous Top Gun movie’s quote), questions the more…
Some nice pics from Babel #1 Non-Latin, a one day type symposium that was held at the HFG Offenbach last week. The focus of the first issue of the Babel Symposium was on other writing systems: Non Latin. Peter Biľak, Oded Ezer, Shoko Mugikura, Johannes Bergerhausen, Ben Wittner (of studio EPS51) and Na Kim were among the speakers. The…
“Do we understand each other? What does the international typography scene have in common and what are the differences?” are some of the questions that will be discussed at the Babel Symposium in Offenbach this November. The Babel Symposium is conceived and organized by the chair of typography, Prof. Sascha Lobe, at…
Page Magazine‘s December 2012 issue introduces Oded Ezer’s Aleph poster and the New American Haggadah in it’s special review of the Hebrew typographic and type design scene. After focusing so far on Japan, Spain/Portugal, France, The Netherlands/Near East, Scandinavia, the Baltic States, the Cryllic World, Ireland, Turkey and Greece, Czechia and Slovakia, Klaus-Peter Staudinger’s recent…
Oded Ezer shares his thoughts (and experience) on how to be a better design student, in 10 easy steps.
Speaking at the AGI Open conference in Hong Kong, Oded Ezer discusses the idea of an “original design by somebody” and references his contribution to the About Flags exhibition. Ezer also talks about the ways in which he comes up with ideas and how his work has become more about pointing…
Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. The magazine established its reputation early by publishing the first important poems of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and other…
Oded Ezer opens Tokyo TDC’s lecture series at GGG gallery, Sat. 8th September 2012. Japanese designer Katsumi Asaba interviewed Ezer after his talk. Established in 1987, The Tokyo Type Directors Club has held an annual competition and lectures series every year since 1991. It is recognised as the most stimulating and radical design…
Just uploaded to Oded Ezer talks on Design Indaba’s website: Oded Ezer talking at last year’s conference to an audience of some thousands. The entry at the Design Indaba blog said: 12:10:02 pm “Oded Ezer speaks about designing a tattoo for a client. She wanted the initials of her grandparents incorporated…
