Oded Ezer was a find. I was perusing the OCAD book sale over a year ago, keeping my eye open for pretty graphics and colours, or words like modern, design, or Tokyo (yes, I'm easy)...
And there was this pretty blue cover with a simple flourish of silver. That pretty blue cover was his Typographer's Guide to the Galaxy. That simple flourish was text.
And opening the book showed it to be full of beautiful, strange projects and photos, and some worthwhile reading as well. I snagged a deal on a lovely book and some inspiring work.
I know typography is not simple, but there is something so beautiful and clean and simple about his work that I am taken. A pure idea and motivation that emerges so gracefully and polished: effortless, natural, as though it was never designed, it just is and always was. part of the magic is that it is not truly text for me. other alphabets always do that for me- text becomes graphic. message is irrelevant. just beautiful.
His ideas are simple, and flawlessly executed. But he has a typography 'laboratory,' where he breaks out of the rigor and exactness of type creation and looks for inspiration from process. Execution may be elegant but the research beforehand is messy, strange, random, curious. I mean, anyone who messes around with typographic dna and infuses sperm with it... I don't know, you have to look for yourself:
typosperma.
And his type models... are beautiful.
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