“Oded Ezer: Just My Type” Gallery opening and talk

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Oded Ezer /Ellen Shapiro“Oded Ezer: Just My Type” presents posters and narratives designed by Oded Ezer between 2000 and 2013, when the artist was investigating new ways to design with Hebrew and Latin type. The 7 p.m. Oct. 17 show, at Brown RISD Hil-

lel, features a selection of posters, type specimens, his work for the New American Haggadah – and more – and demonstrates the power of typography in design.

Oded Ezer is a graphic artist and typographer. Prior to starting his career as a designer, he was a musician and a poet. Ezer lived in Jerusalem, London and the Negev Desert before settling in greater Tel Aviv. He is best known for his typographic design fiction projects, his design for the New American Haggadah, translated by Nathan Englander and edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, his   SkypeType poster and his ongoing contribution to Hebrew type design.

In 2000, he established his own independent studio – Oded Ezer Typography – where he specializes in typographic and fonts design for clients in Israel, Europe and the United States. In 2004, he started HebrewTypography, a type foundry selling his own typefaces to leading media companies and design studios. He is currently a Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Brown RISD Hillel is located at 80 Brown St., Providence.

For more information: Contact Marshall Einhorn, Executive Director, Brown RISD Hillel, 863-9354 or marshall_einhorn@brown.edu.