Design Indaba: Oded Ezer

Graphic designer, type designer, design educator, a pioneer in the field of 3D Hebrew lettering and a typographic experimentalist who invented the term Biotypography… Oded Ezer’s projects, posters and graphic works are showcased and published worldwide.

12:37:28 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Oded Ezer finishes off with an exquisite video homage to Mother & Child.

12:34:26 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Ezer is fascinated by biology and applying it as typography. He took human sperm and created a whole new typeface – “typosperma”.

12:29:39 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Sources of Ezer’s inspiration are myriad, yet he combines all these fields into his love for typography. An incredible thinker, he just sees the world differently.

12:24:14 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Ezer decided to form a “typographic religion” with rituals and he made himself the “typographic shaman”. Now we know why cult leaders so often start off as graphic designers.

12:21:20 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Ezer was asked to design a logo for his city, Givatayim, by a site that he found “too trendy”. He wrote the name of his city in ancient Hebrew and then modernised it.

12:14:30 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Ezer on a poster he created for the Krakow Festival: “I started to think about ways we communicate. I asked friends all over the world to each create one letter for me. Then I took these and used them for the poster.”

12:10:02 pm - Fri 25 Feb

Oded Ezer speaks about designing a tattoo for a friend. She wanted the initials of her grandparents incorporated into it. Ezer took the idea of infinity and long lines and built the letters into that. Her tattoo started at the tip of one finger and ran along her arm, up to her neck, and back down along the other arm – ending on the tip of her other hand’s finger.

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