(1973 - Present)

AVINOAM NOMA BAR

Bar has been responsible for the design of over 60 magazine covers with his work found in publications such as Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist, and Wallpaper. He has also published over 550 illustrations and published two books. Guess Who - the Many Faces of Noma Bar was published in 2007 and is noted for his vector art illustrations of famous faces in history and pop culture. His second book, Negative Space, was published in 2009. Negative space combines Bars famous vector-art illustrations while employing strong messages regarding sex, crime, religion, corporate greed, global warming, and nuclear warfare.

Avinoam Noma Bar, commonly known as Noma Bar, was born in 1973 in Israel. As a child Bar had interest in Art and wanted to be an Artist. During the first Gulf War in 1990, Bar began to explore combining caricatures and pictograms to create unique images. In one instance, Bar sketched Saddam Hussein around a radioactive symbol which he found in the newspaper. He attended the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design and graduated in 2000 with a Bachelors of Graphic and Type Design. To pursue his design career, Bar moved to London where he was commissioned by Time Out London Magazine. Bar describes himself a visual communicator, combining the skills of an artist, illustrator, and designer. Bar is most famously known for ability to manipulate shapes by using positive and negative spaces to transform a familiar symbols with new meanings. Using very simple, and limited, color palettes he combines images to convey

Negative Space: Gun Crime

Negative Space: Tea for Two

Time Out New York: Magazine Cover July 2012

Guess Who: Saddam Hussein

Guess Who: Adolf Hitler

Guess Who: William Shakespeare {Right] Guess Who: Book Cover. 2007

Guess Who: Bob Dylan

Negative Space: Final Cut