"Tartakover's Posters-no commercial value".

" David Tartakover's Posters, No Commercial Value ".

David Tartakover is the Israel Prize Laureate for Design in the year for 2002.

The Israel Prize is the most important prize awarded in this country.

The recipients are Israeli citizens, that has achieved particular excellence or a notable breakthrough in a specific sphere, or made a special contribution to Israeli society.

Referring to their choice, the judges describe Tartakover as one of Israel's foremost designers, noting that: "His unique work creates a synthesis between popular and high culture, between the written text and visual imagery and between personal statements and collective representations of local cultural values. As a creator, teacher and active member of the community for over 30 years, he has influenced the language of visual representation in Israel."

I just got the link to the winners of The Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design Golden Bee 6.

I am proud to host the exhibition of David Tartakover's Posters in my site. David Tartakover is a top graphic artist of Israel and a friend. His works are well known in Israel and all over the world.

On Friday 20 October, 2001 David tartakover was invited to take part in a new exhibition at The Centre George Pompidou in Paris France, the occasion is 100 years to Toulouse Lautrec, the father of the modern era graphic art. 100 artists were invited from all over the world.

This is a self promo of David tartakover with the artist portrait.

This exhibition was arranged before the tragic events of the 11th September, just a month ago but it looks light years ago. Our world changed on that tragic day in Manhattan, we all have to ask our selves what went wrong and could we do something to prevent it.

These posters were done from 1980 to 1997, with anguish to the political situation in Israel. ( Menahem Erez ).

Here is a link to Gallery Anatome, the only gallery for graphic design in Paris France.

Design in Freehand, by David Tartakover.

" When Mordechai Vaanunu (Who is today in prison for revealing Israel's atomic secrets) was being driven to court, under heavy escort, he pressed the palm of his hand to the window of the car he was in, toward the newsmen surrounding the car.

Written on the palm of his hand with a black marking pen were the date when he was kidnapped and the place from which he was brought to Israel by the Mossad agents - information that was prohibited for publication in Israel.
Vaanunu acted like a visual communicator: he transmitted a direct message, in "real time", to the media. He did not ornament the message, and did not hesitate over what type of letter or what color to use, or in what format.

He used the materials available to him cleverly and with originality, and created a harmony between the message and the manner in which it was transmitted.
As a graphic designer who is practiced in the creation of visual communication, I tend to identify with Vaanunu the "graphic designer" and with his manner of work ".

The text accompanying the posters was written by the artist.

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T2.
Who will utter the mighty acts of Israel, 1982
Offset, 70 x 100
Photograph: David Seymour
Self produced

" The Poster issued following the massacre of the Christian forces in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla in Lebanon (Sept. 17-18, 1982).
A week after the massacre a demonstration attended by a mass of 400,000 was held in
Tel Aviv, demanding to establish a commission of inquiry into the massacre, a withdrawal from Lebanon, and the government resignation ".

T3.
Design & Society, 1988
Offset, 50 x 70
Photograph: Derech Ha-Nitzotz
Self produced

" In June 1988, at the height of the Intifada, a conference on the theme "Design and Society"
was organized by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In response to the frilly pink poster produced for the occasion, I introduced Design and Society, using a photograph of a Palestinian woman whose house had been blockaded as punishment for throwing stones. The concrete blocks bear the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) insignia as well as the stamp of approval of the Israeli Bureau of Standards. This poster served as my representation in this conference which totally disregarded the fact that one kilometer away from the museum another society was struggling to be formed ".

T4.
Mother, 1987
Offset, 70 x 100
Photograph: Jim Hollander, Reuters
Self produced

T5.
Pain, 1989
Offset, 70 x 100
Photograph: Micha Kirshner
Self produced

The poster bore the Hebrew title Ke'ev (pain), a word which can also be read as Ke'av meaning "As a Father".

T6.
Shana Tova [Happy New Year], 1987
Offset, 70 x 100
Photograph: Oded Klein

Poster in the series The Seven Species. The petrol bomb is filled with olive oil. The poster was produced in September 1987 as a greeting poster for the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah). December 1987 marked the outbreak of the Palestinian Uprising - the Intifada.

T7.
Happy New Fear, 1995
Offset, 100 x 70
Photograph: Oded Klein
Self produced

Poster for the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah). The poster was produced in September 1995 as an expression for the manifestations of violence in Israeli society. On Saturday, the night of November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir who fired three gun shots in his back.

T8.
We will not forget, We will not forgive, 1997
Personal statement, two years to the murder of Y. Rabin.

T9.
1245 Soldiers Already left Lebanon.
On unilateral withdrawal. 1998
Offset 70 x 100
photo: AP

poster calling upon Israel Defense Force to leave Lebanon.
(one year later The IDF withdraw from Lebanon).

T10.
Life to Lebanon, 2000

Poster commemorating the 18th Anniversary of the Lebanon War and the I.D.F. withdrawal (June 2000)
The Hebrew title is "Life to Lebanon".
The numerological value of the letters of the word "life" in Hebrew is 18.
(Photograph by Rony Schutzer)

T11.
Childhood is not child's play, 1998

Poster for an exhibition,
Deutsch Plakat Museum,Essen, Germany

T12.
Shana Tova (Happy New Year), 1983
Offset , 70 x 100
Photograph: Avi Ganor

First poster in the series The Seven Species ( The Seven Species characteristic of the land of
Israel: " A land of wheat. and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil, and honey." [DT, 8:8].
The poster was produced the same year a hand grenade was thrown at a "Peace Now" demonstration (Feb. 10, 1983) killing one of the participants, Emil Gruenzweig.
* The Hebrew word rimon designates both pomegranate and grenade.

T13.
Bring the settlers home, 2000
Offset , 70 x 100

Poster calling the leave of Jewish settlers from the Occupied Palestinian territories
Self produced.

T14.
United Colors of Netanyahu, 1998
Offset, 70 x 100
Photograph: David Karp (AP)
Self produced

Personal statement on B. Netanyahu Israel's Ex Prime Minister
Bronze Medal Warsaw International Poster Biennial, 2000
Silver Medal Lathi International Poster Biennial 2001.

T15.
Israel's Independence Day, 1997
Offset, 70 x 100
Self produced

Poster marking Israel's 49th Independence Day
This poster is based on traditional Israeli Independence Day's decorations. Appearing in the original are the portraits of Israel's President, Prime Minister, Chief of the General Staff, and Defense Minister. Appearing in this poster are Shas leader, Rabbi Ovadiah Yossef, MK Arieh Deri, the Kabbalist Yitzhak Kadouri, and the Director of the Prime Minister's Office at the time, Avigdor Liberman. The portrait in the middle is that of Theodor Herzl, who anticipated the country's establishment.

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