Biological typography

The history books are full of graphic designers who ventured into other artistic fields. For example Bob Gill, as well as designing typography is a sculptor, while William Addison Dwiggins loved to create marionettes. In the same way, Oded Ezer, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, has transformed his own passion for typography into art.

The history books are full of graphic designers who ventured into other artistic fields. For example Bob Gill, as well as designing typography is a sculptor, while William Addison Dwiggins loved to create marionettes. In the same way, Oded Ezer, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, has transformed his own passion for typography into art.

Ezer, born in 1972, alternates his day job (advertising campaigns and corporate identities that have brought him a number of awards and prizes) with decidedly more experimental work in his laboratory in Givatayim, a suburb of Tel Aviv. For several years he has been working on a project that he calls Biotypography that, a little like in biotechnology, uses living organisms to create or modify typographic phenomena.

After having manipulated the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to create three-dimensional characters that move in space, this versatile font designer is now working on Typosperma where the characters are a cross between sperm cells and letters.

http://www.odedezer.com

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