Wild and Insane Typography Art by Oded Ezer

By Deborah • July 16, 2008

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Breaching the boundaries in a juxtaposition of typography, art, and science, Oded Ezer writes his own rules as an experimentalist with works of letters transformed into bizarre, zany, and mesmerizing shapes and designs from insects to cloned human sperm cells injected with typographic information into its DNA.

Typoplastic Surgeries

Working from his studio in Israel, Oded doesn’t consider himself as a scientist or an artist, merely a typographer who attempts to explore new fields as a pioneer for typography in a similar manner as Graffiti and Street Artists are carving their way to be deemed as a true and mainstream form of art and communication, with the world at large as an audience.

Typoplastic Surgeries
Oded became thoroughly keyed-up with Typoplastic Surgeries for its possibilities, and literally began attaching letters to his own body and face.

Self portrait with an ‘Alef’ – early sketches for “The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy” poster.

Typosperma
A bizarre and one of the more amazing concepts ever to hit typography is Oded’s creation of Typosperma. Using biotechnological methods (think in the likes of Victor Frankenstein), Oded creates a form of new transgenic living creatures which are half-human sperm and half-letter by implanting typographic information into the DNA of cloned sperm cells.

Oded Ezer Typosperma

Biotypography
For his lecture titled “The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Oded attempted to explore cloning and envisioned a mouse whose ear becomes a letter, and thought “Why not make an animal into the letter F?” The letter by itself wouldn’t mean much, but together with other letter creatures, they could spell out a word.

Biotypography – Freedom Is Fantasy

The Finger — Oded Ezer

View the rest of the article in its entirety for which Life in the Fast Lane has written for WebUrbanist from here.

All photos copyright and property of Oded Ezer.

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13 Responses to “ Wild and Insane Typography Art by Oded Ezer ”

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Urbanist (2 comments.) Jul 16th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

Thanks again for the awesome guest article. Truly a wonderful piece about an amazing typographer!
Chiky MIky - A Fun Is Here (1 comments.) Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:26 am

i Just shock when i see first time see that photo. it’s really amazing.
Deborah (1493 comments.) Jul 17th, 2008 at 5:03 am

It was my pleasure, and I’m glad that you enjoyed it Urbanist Oded is a very unusual and highly talented artist and typographer. It was actually fun to write about him.

Haha, it does take a person a little off-guard Chiky
JB (1 comments.) Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

I’ve never seen anything like that before. Interesting!
Mikael Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

I just discovered this blog and I sure am glad that I did!

Mikael
http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com
Jarke Jul 18th, 2008 at 5:11 am

I like this kind of art.
Very interesting-I will share your blog with some of my colleagues.
Philias Jul 18th, 2008 at 10:50 am

Wow, the one with the mouse is amazing.
Or is it a rat?
I really like it.
Gina (1 comments.) Jul 20th, 2008 at 6:07 am

This kind of art is really cool.
Like these pictures.
UptakeInOH Jul 28th, 2008 at 10:27 am

Wow. I love the creativity. And you always find the most interesting info, Deborah!
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jotta (1 comments.) Mar 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 am

Ezer is an amazing typographer. This artist recently studied under him in Tel Aviv and wrote about her great experiences with him.
http://www.jotta.com/magazine/articles/667/a-design-diary-from-tel-aviv-lucy-brown-entry-3