To mark the 80th birthday of David Tartakover - one of Israel's top designers and winner of the Israel Design Award for 2002 - designers Michal Shapira and Yael Bogen sent out an open call for designers and friends to respond to his iconic works. The responses were packed in a postcard box and given to him as a gift.
"Throughout his long career, Tartakover accompanies the State of Israel in almost every important political event and intersection," writes the designer Oded Yehuda, "through his work, he holds a mirror up to the stories of this land. And to us. He was, is still, and will always continue to be part of the discourse, the design canon, and the pantheon of the important creation of this place."
We are honored to host this festive birthday project, done in collaboration with the Shenkar College Archives. Mazal Tov Tarta!
We are thankful to Michal Shapira and Yael Bogen, and to all the designers who took part and shared their work on Madaf.
To follow the ongoing project on Instagram, see HERE.