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Hello Print Screen Festival!

During these past two years since I've completed my Living Language project, I've had an amazing chance to travel, exhibit and present it.

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Ori Elisar is a Jaffa based designer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem graduate with a B.Des degree in Visual Communication, And Hebrew Linguistics and Archeology studies at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev.

Projects

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2015)
B.Des, Visual Communication

Microbiology department, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel-Aviv University (2014)
Training in Microbiology

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2009)
Hebrew Linguistics and Archeology

Fachhochschule Bielefeld / University of Applied Sciences NRW-Scholarship Program (2013)
WS with full NRW-Scholarship Program

Talks and presentations

PechaKucha , April 2016, Tel-Aviv.

FITC conference, February 2016, Tokyo.

FABCAFE Shibuya, February 2016, Tokyo.
A BioHack Typographic workshop.

MetaPhorest seminar, February 2016, Tokyo.

SupeFabLab , February 2016, Tokyo.

BioFiction event (hosted by BCL and Institut français du Japon) , February 2016, Tokyo.

PechaKucha , February 2016, Tokyo.

Exhibitions & Award

Ars Electronica Festival, September 2016
Linz, Austria.
KIKK FESTIVAL, November 2015
Namur, Belgium.
Beyond Tellerrand, November 2015
Berlin, Germany.

TDC62, Type Directors Club New York, 2015
Certificate of Typographic Excellence

 

IDA 2015, Honorable Mention
The 9TH Annual International Design Awards

Media Coverage

WIRED, September 3, 2015
A Living Typeface That Actually Grows in a Petri Dish

CoDesign,  September 1, 2015
Made of Bacteria, This Living Type Morphs Into New Letterforms

Dezeen,  September 14, 2015
Ori Elisar grows typography in a lab using bacteria-filled petri dishes

ilovetypography, September 21, 2015
Bacterial Type

Discovery, September 6, 2015
LIVING TYPEFACE

makesense, September 8, 2015
Biology, linguistics and evolutionary aesthetics

Page Magazine, September 21, 2015
Wie aus Bakterien ein Alphabet wächst

cienciaxplora, September 25, 2015
Esta tipografía vive (literalmente) en una placa de Petri

Ideas lab, September 17, 2015
DESIGN, INOVAȚIE, ȘTIINȚĂ

frizzifrizzi.it, October 12, 2015
L’ALFABETO VIVENTE, CHE MUTA GRAZIE A UN BATTERIO