Video: Simplicity is a terrible force: illustrations by Noma Bar
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Sometimes you don't have to sculpt a bunch of details and come up with similar concepts to create a masterpiece. Illustrator Noma Bar agrees with this, and Esquire, The Economist and many other magazines for which Noma draws funny caricatures and makes simple but effective illustrations for the covers, certainly agree with this.
The biography of Noma Bar is, in general, quite common for an artist. Born in 1973 in Israel, Noma dreamed of becoming an artist since childhood. During the first war in Iraq, the artist became interested in the combination of cartoons and pictograms.
While his family was in hiding during the hostilities, he made a caricature of Saddam Hussein. Actually, since then, the principle on which his unique technique is built has been reduced to the phrase “Simplicity is a terrible force”. Not beauty, but simplicity, because it is she who works for him, allowing him to conclude contracts with the world's leading print media.
In 2000, Noma graduated from the Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 2001 he settled in London and since then has an extensive client base around the world as a designer and illustrator. Among the clients noticed, for example, magazines "Esquire", "Observer", "The Economist", "Time Out London" and other well-known print publications. Over the past few years, he has drawn at least 60 magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations, and has also published two books Guess Who Is The Many Incarnations of Noma Bar and Negative Space.
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