Noma Bar

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Nationality Israeli Name Noma Bar Years active 2001–present Role Illustrator		Known for Negative Space Posters Residence United Kingdom Notable work "Saddam Hussein" Books Negative Space

Born 1973 (age 41–42) Israel Alma mater Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Occupation Graphic designer, illustrator and artist Education Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Similar People ShaoLan Hsueh, Olly Moss, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Don DeLillo

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Avinoam Noma Bar (born in 1973) is an Israel-born graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work appears in newspapers, magazines, book covers, ad campaigns and in his own books.

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Bar has published over 550 illustrations, which have been used in The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Out London, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*; illustrated book covers for Don DeLillo and Haruki Murakami; appeared in ad campaigns for Google, Sony and Nike; and been used on over sixty magazine covers. He has released three books of his work: Guess Who?: The Many Faces of Noma Bar (2008), Negative Space (2009), and Bittersweet (2017).

Bar won a Yellow Pencil award at the D&AD Professional Awards 2012 for his series of Don DeLillo book covers, created with London design studio It's Nice That. In 2014, he illustrated Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese by Shaolan Hsueh, a book about Hsueh's visual-based method of learning Chinese.

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Publications by Bar

Guess Who?: The Many Faces of Noma Bar. Brooklyn, New York: Mark Batty, 2008. ISBN 978-0977985074. With an introduction by Steven Heller.

Negative Space. Brooklyn, New York: Mark Batty, 2009. ISBN 978-0981780559.

Bittersweet (Limited Edition). London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. ISBN 978-0500094006. 5 volumes. Edition of 1000 copies. A retrospective.

Publication with contributions by Bar

Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. By Shaolan Hsueh. ISBN 978-0500650288.

Exhibitions

Bitter/Sweet, KK Outlet, London, 2010. Bar "transformed flat illustrations into a variety of objects that include 3D wood cuts, installation pieces, screenprints and light boxes."

Cut It Out, Outline Editions gallery, part of London Design Festival, London, 2011.

Cut the Conflict, Rook & Raven Gallery, London, 2013.

Look Out, Noma Bar, L'Imprimerie gallery, Paris, 2014. Artwork and sculpture.

Awards

2010: Wood Pencil, D&AD Professional Awards, Illustration: Book Design category for Negative Space.

2011: Nominated for graphics category of the Design Museum's Designs of the Year 2012, for his Cut It Out exhibition.

2012: Yellow Pencil, D&AD Professional Awards, Book Design: Book Front Covers category for his Don DeLillo book covers.

References

Noma Bar Wikipedia

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