Oded ezer biography of george washington
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The iconoclastic Israeli graphic designer, typographer and type designer Oded Ezer is in residence on the East Coast for two months, lecturing and teaching a class called “Type Follows Emotion, Personal Typographic Exploration” at Rhode Island School of Design.
Perhaps best known for what he calls his “typographic design fiction projects,” including “Typosperma,” which was part of MoMA’s 2008 “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibition, and the design of The New American Haggadah, Ezer mostly earns his living by licensing his original typefaces through his HebrewTypography foundry.
Oded ezer biography of george washington
When he’s not designing marketable typefaces, he’s a kind of typographic mad scientist, giving letterforms wings and legs, amputating their parts or surgically attaching them to his own face and body.
His RISD students are now part of the grand experiment, working on an assignment called Typographic Therapy.
“Can type cure?” Ezer asks rhetorically. “Or can it function as a psychological test to examine one