criticaldebatesindesign: Yossi Lemel - Israeli Political Poster and Activist Artist

Yossi Lemel was born in Jerusalem in 1957. He received a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Graphic Design, Jerusalem (1979-83). He founded Yossi Lemel Design Studio (1986-88) and was the head of the visual communication department at the College of Arts and Design in Tel Aviv between 2003 and 2005. He has been a partner and creative director in Lemel Cohen Advertising Agency since 2001. He is co-curator of the international traveling exhibition and book Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Posters and a participant in the book and exhibitions The Design of Dissent in New York and The Graphic Imperative in Boston. In addition he has participated in various group and solo exhibitions around the world. His designs are in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg) and Musée de la Publicité (Paris). Lemel has received many awards including the Grand Prize at the First Korea International Poster Biennial (2002), a Gold Medal at the Seventh International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico (2002), the Critics Award at the 20th Biennial of Graphic Design Brno (2002)/Czech Republic, First Prize at a competition at the Ministry of Environment in Israel (2000), the Gold Medal at the Israeli Advertising Award for the Campaign of the Year (1999), a mention at the Epica-European Advertising Award (1999), and an honorable mention in the Mons Poster Triennial/Belgium (1995).

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