Biography
Israeli-born Noma Bar studied graphic design and typography at the Jerusalem Academy of Art & Design before moving to London in 2001.
Describing his craft as visual communication, combining the skills of artist, illustrator and designer, Noma states he's "after the maximum communication with minimum elements”. His two stunning and highly acclaimed books, The Many Faces of Noma Bar and Negative Space have become a must have for the design industry. He has exhibited worldwide, including solo shows in London, New York and Paris.
In September 2011 his London Design Festival exhibition “Cut It Out”, was selected as one of the highlights of the festival. The project was nominated in the graphics category for the Design Museum, Designs Of the Year 2012.
Noma's work has become well known throughout the world, winning various industry awards. more recently the prestigious Yellow Pencil award at the D&AD Professional Awards 2012 for his series of Don DeLilo covers, created with London design studio It's Nice That.
(Taken from Facebook page)
I am really fond of Noma's work for the strong use of symbols to create visually intriguing images. The use of negative space is used so effectively to provide two messages within one image. Colour is bold and bright, producing strong outcomes that immediately engage. What I like the most is how clever and playful he is with his designs, sort of like an optical illusion, you want to work out what it represents.
However, Noma is quite a popular and famous designer so contacting him for an interview could prove to be extremely difficult as he is probably very busy. I want to give it a go because I will never know unless I try, so that next step would be working out how to tackle opening a dialogue. On his website he has given two phone numbers and an email address so I already have a means of contacting him.
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