Friday, March 27, 2009

Type conference Designer bio.

Oded Ezer

A modern typographic experimentalist who combines text and forms is Oded Ezer. Oded is an Israeli logo and type designer who explores non-conventional typographic solutions in Hebrew typography. Ezer has won many local and international prizes, including the Gold Prize at the international design competition of the Nagoya Design Center, Japan (2000); Certificate of Excellence at the 4th annual competition of the New York Type Directors Club and Certificate of Excellence at the "Bukva raz", a type design competition, Moscow (2001), Russia (2001), and the Israeli Education Ministry Prize for Design (2003). In 2000, two years after graduating at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, with a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication Design Ezer founded his own independent studio, "Oded Ezer Typography". He teaches typography and graphic design in several academies in and outside Israel, among them at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design, Jerusalem, at the Shenkar College of Engineering near Tel Aviv, and at the Wizo College of Design, Haifa.v

1 comment:

thenewprogramme said...

sounds fine. i'm not bowled over by the creativity of this, but it's a bio. it does its job well in communicating the facts of ezer's accomplishments.