Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work features flat colour, minimal detail and clever use of negative space to create images. These images often carry double meanings that are not always immediately apparent. Bar describes his method as avoiding unnecessary detail which could distract from the message.
Bar takes inspiration from soviet-era propaganda posters and Art Deco
film posters.
His illustrations appear internationally and are used in newspapers, magazines, book covers and for advertising campaigns. Bar's work has also been featured in exhibitions and been used for talks and festivals. More recently he has branched out into 3D sculpture, architecture and animation.
In 2011 he created an interactive show called 'Cut It Out' which was part of the London Design Festival celebrations. This exhibition included a print cutting machine which members of the public could use to create their own prints of Noma Bar's work using materials they chose to bring. The design of the machine itself was based off one his 2D designs.
In 2013, he decided to take this concept of 'Cut it Out' further and created a new exhibition called 'Cut the Conflict' in which items sent from warring nations (maps, flags, photos and posters) were mounted into a unified image. The concept for this exhibition stemmed from a conversation between Bar (who is Israeli) and an Iranian man who also lived in London. Bar explained that this was "a conversation that could never happen if we both lived in our own countries". Each piece that was created only contained materials from two countries in conflict.
In 2012, Bar created a number of room installations and in 2015, he translated his illustrations into architecture for the first time by creating a bird-shaped tree house providing a bird's eye view of the countryside.
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