Noma Bar Quotes

Israel, Graphic Designer
1973

Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer, illustrator and artist, based in London. Bar's work has been described as "deceptively simple", featuring flat colours, minimal detail and negative space to create images that often carry double meanings that are not immediately apparent. Bar himself outlines his approach as avoiding unnecessary detail or decoration that might detract from an image's message, instead aiming for 'maximum communication with minimal elements.

Also known as Illustrator

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

Noma Bar
- Sitting
- Wood
- Sketching
There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.

Noma Bar
- Scale
- Exposure
- Branding

My favorite works are the ones where I get to expose what is really behind the "brands."

Noma Bar
- Works
- Brands
- Expose
Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.

Noma Bar
- Focus
- Ideas
- Illustrate
As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.

Noma Bar
- Ideas
- Research
- Sketches
When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

Noma Bar
- Art
- Mess
- Perfectionist
Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

Noma Bar