Oded Ezer is a Tel Aviv based type designer, conceptual typographer and design educator who creates visual content and commentary around subjects such as science, anthropology, body-modification, ethics, fiction, religion, history, sociology, politics and writing systems, for cultural and commercial bodies such as MoMA, V&A Museum, Google, Sumsung, Waze, Jewish Culture Festival Krakow, Little Brown & Co., Taiwan National Museum of Art, Typomania Festival Moscow, Jerusalem Season of Culture, Palermo Capitale della Cultura, Design Museum Holon and many others.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Oded Ezer On typography, language, music and more (Audio)
DesignBoom articles tagged “Oded Ezer”: Articles about several recent projects
Print Magazine’s Interview With Oded Ezer: Print Magazine’s Zachary Petit interviews Oded Ezer
The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy: Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), writes about Oded Ezer’s work on Design Observer
Brand New Ways talks with Oded Ezer: On typography, technology, mythology and more (Audio)
A Bubbling Font of Creativity: By Ezra Glinter for The Forward
One step before designing the Bible: Ha’aretz newspaper’s article about Ezer’s design of the New American Haggadah
Designing a 22nd-century classic: Ha’aretz newspaper about Oded Ezer’s Hebrew typeface
Oded Ezer on TypeRadio, the radio channel on type & design: Interview with Oded Ezer, recorded at the ATypI 2010 conference in Dublin, Ireland
Oded Ezer on Radio RTE, Ireland: Two parts interview with Oded Ezer on Culture File Pod. Here and here.
Oded Ezer: The Typographer's Guide to the Galaxy (Gestalten), 2009
2021
Pushing typography to the limit, at the Ultrafett typography online conference by FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
Veining, at the Arts University Bournemouth
2020
Designing Type, online presentation for the DesignThinkers Conference 2020 Virtual, Canada
2019
My Type, at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca., USA
Body & Type, at the Nanjing University of Art, Nanjing, China
2017
Oded Ezer: Typography for Screen, lecture at the Moscow Museum (International Typographic Festival Typomania), Moscow, Russia
2016
Type and Literature, at the Sapir Prize for Literature nominees night, Jaffa, Israel
2015
Typographic Fiction, at Arts University Bournemouth, UK
Typographic Fiction, at the University of the Arts London’s Next Up! conference, London, UK
2014
Practical Particles, at the Graphic Design Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
Practical Particles, at the Branding Program of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY, USA
2013
Letters from Tel-Aviv, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Landmarks in the World of Design Fiction, at AIGA, the professional association for design, New York, USA
Design Fiction, at Rhode Island School of Design's Auditorium, Providence, RI, USA
2012
Non Latin, at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Germany
Heaven & Hell, at the Alliance Graphique International conference - AGI Open, Hong Kong
Great Expectations, at the TDC Tokyo lecture series at GGG galery, Tokyo, Japan
New American Haggadah, at De.sign conference in Prague, Goethe Institut, Czech Republic
2011
Tipocriaturas, at Centro Universitário Senac São Paulo, Brazil
&, at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
Typoholic, the Design Indaba conference, Cape Town, South Africa
2010
Process, at the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) Congress, Porto, Portugal
Typosymbiosis: Mutual influences of research and contemporary type design (With Y.Hofshi), at the ATypI 2010 Conference, Dublin, Ireland
Typographic Wonderlands, at the 24th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, Czech Republic
The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy, at the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Visual Communication Dep., Jerusalem, Israel
The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy, at the MA Graphic Design, London College of Communication (LCC), London, UK
2009
Between Type and Art, at the Typo Zürich '09 conference, Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zürich, Switzerland
The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy, at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008
Imag(in)e Type, at the Typo Berlin 2008 Conference, Berlin, Germany
2007
General Outlook of Young Israeli Designers, at the IdcN Commemorative Conference, Nagoya, Japan
2006
Experimental Typography, at the Hongik University’s seminar, Seoul, Korea
2005
National Identity and Hebrew Typography (With Y.Hofshi), at the ATypI 2005 Conference, Helsinki, Finland
2004
A Typographic Sojourn, at the Icograda International Design Week, Istanbul, Turkey
Oded Ezer: Time of the signs (Gestalten tv)
Oded Ezer: Morphing typography with other organisms (Design Indaba)
Oded Ezer: Meet the Artist (Ketubah)
Oded Ezer: Pushing typography to the limit (Ultrafett Typography Festival)
Design Education Talks: Oded Ezer (The New School)
2015
Oded Ezer: Practical Particles, exhibition at the Vitrina Gallery, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon
2013
Oded Ezer: Hebrew Typography, exhibition at the Brown Hillel Center, Providence, USA
Oded Ezer: Typographic Videos, exhibition at the the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Department of Graphic Design's Gallery, Providence, USA
2011
Oded Ezer: Tipocriaturas, solo exhibition at CAIXA Cultural São Paulo, Brazil
Oded Ezer: Tipocriaturas, solo exhibition at CAIXA Cultural Brasília, Brazil
2009
Oded Ezer: Typographic posters display at the Rencontres de Lure's seminar, Lure, France
2020
Typomania, at the Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
2019
Energy, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA
Look Both Ways: The Illicit Liaison Between Image and Information, at the SVA NYC Gallery, NY, USA
2018
The 3rd Cool Word Exhibition, at the Nanjing University of Art's Design Museum, Nanjing, China
2017
Text Me: How We Live in Language, at the Museum of Design (MODA), Atlanta, USA
Typomania, at the Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
High Contrast, at the Seoul Design Festival, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
2016
Hangeul Calligraphy x Latin Typography, at the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2015
StereoType, New Directions in Typography at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, at Parsons The New School, New York, USA
2014
A Collection of Ideas, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA
2013
Memory Palace, at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) as part of the Sky Arts Ignition Series, London, UK
2012
Graphic Design: Now in Production, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Graphic Design & Great Expectations, at the Design Museum, London, UK
Graphic Design: Now in Production, at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Governors Island, New York, USA
2010
1900 - 2010: Selected works from the Design and Architecture Collection, at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
International Poster Triennial at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Where is My Vote: Posters for the Green Movement in Iran, at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, NY, USA
2009
Trnava Poster Triennial, Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia
Freeze!, at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Lubalin Now, at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, NY, USA
2008
Design and the Elastic Mind, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA
Schrift in Form, at the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany
2007
International Poster Triennial at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
The Social Designers: design for real needs, at the International Design Center Nagoya, Japan
2006
NY TDC traveling exhibition at the HOW Design in Las Vegas, Nevada and the TypeCon Boston Conferences, USA
Golden Bee 7, International Biennale of Graphic Design, Moscow, Russia
New York Type Directors Club annual exhibit, New York, USA
Tokyo TDC Exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Handmade - Poster Collection 11, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
Hagilda: Typographic Posters, at the Israeli House of Parliament, Jerusalem, Israel
2004
Prize winners in Art and Design from the Ministry of Education and Culture, at the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2003
Bukva:raz!, Hundred Best Fonts, the visitors’ gallery at the headquarters of the United Nations, New York, USA
2001
The 12th Festival D’affiches de Chaumont, France
New York Type Directors Club TDC2 annual exhibit, New York, USA
2000
Golden Bee 5, International Biennale of Graphic Design, Moscow, Russia
1997
The Royal Society of Art’s Annual Exhibition, London, UK
2016
Seoul calligraphy art museum, Seoul, South Korea
Design Museum Holon, Israel
2014
New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC, USA
Rhode Island Museum of Art (RISD Museum), Providence, USA
2013
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, UK
2012
Klingspor Museum Offenbach, Germany
2009
New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC, USA
2004
Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland