Age: I think I'm...
2005
Noa Schwartz, Yehuda Miklaf
The final project of designer Noa Schwartz, created upon completing her Visual Communication studies at Bezalel, focuses on the life and art of the bookbinder Yehuda Miklaf. The book includes interviews, photographs, and meticulous work with various grid systems. The book was published in an edition of four copies, specially bound for submission by Miklaf himself.
- Copies: 4
- Type of binding: Design Binding
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 24x15
- Printing: Yehuda Shalom Press
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: Digital press and marble
- Publication: Yehuda Shalom Press
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Leaefing Magazine
Yehuda Miklaf was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1942, and educated there and in New York. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and began working at the University of Toronto Library, where he stayed for almost ten years. During this time, he began to learn bookbinding with Emrys Evans at the Rare Book Library. Yehuda befriended two other notable binders in the Toronto area. One was Anton (Tony) Lucas, the binder at the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and Michael Wilcox, who was an independent binder. Miklaf has been working as a professional binder since 1977 with major book collectors, artists, private presses, galleries, and museums in Israel and around the world. He immigrated to Jerusalem in the fall of 1986 with his wife, Maurene Fritz. He is also a professional printer and has made a number of his own artist’s books in limited editions. His own press, based in Jerusalem, is titled Yehuda Shalom Press.
Noa Schwartz is a Bezalel-trained graphic designer and the founder of an independent studio specializing in book design for art, design, and culture for over 20 years. From 2010 to 2014, she headed the Graphic Design Department at the London studio of the international designer Ron Arad. During her tenure, she received a TDC Tokyo Excellence Award and a TDC New York Excellence Award for the logo design of Onion House—a modular house (2012) designed by the studio’s Architecture Department. In 2025, she won a double award for two books she designed in the “Dozen Books” competition.
