Yossi Lemel | CORONA CASE

A journey to Pandemia

3D Digital Exhibition, “Vitrina Gallery”, HIT holon Institute of Technology

Playfully and humorously, Yossi Lemel describes Covid-19 as “just another deadly, boring disease”. Lemel, master of posters and graphic design, made sure we were well-supplied with an abundance of creative images of the virus, which he designed during the onset of the pandemia and the global quarantine, almost on a daily basis. Powerful and imaginative direct images, without any disposition of “visual elitism” or “self-promotion” – an image a day, as fresh as bread in the morning, until a mosaic design was created. The Corona Case series has a common design line and a specific palette and was designed for Internet viewing but with the dimensions of the traditional printed poster (70x100 cm). Lemel isa well acclaimed active designer and equally a social activist whose contribution to shaping public debate and social involvement in Israel and abroad is internationally recognized.

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Yossi Lemel BIO

Yossi Lemel was born in 1957 in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a political poster artist, creative director, a lecturer, a curator, and a teacher, graduated and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Currently teaches at Holon Institute of Technology HIT, Israel.

Yossi is a jury member in Biennials and poster competitions around the world. He had 20 solo Poster exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Denver, New Orleans, Istanbul, Casale Monferrato (Italy), Warsaw, Poznan (Poland), Stockholm, Trnava (Slovakia)La Paz, Bolivia, and Jerusalem.

He won more than 70 Awards include the Grand Prix at the 1st Korean poster Biennale, the Gold medal at Promax Canada, a Gold Medal at the Mexico Biennale The Golden Bee Award Moscow, Gold and Silver Awards at the Graphis Poster New York, and more...

His works are part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Musée de la Publicité, the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, DKW, Kunstmuseum Cottbus, the National Museum in Poznan, Poland, and the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich.

Over the years, Yossi had worked with Amnesty International, Greenpeace the Mediterranean, Civil rights organization in Israel. UNHCR United Nations Refugee Agency, The Ministry of protecting the environment, Israel, The Ministry for culture and sport, The Museum for Islamic Art Jerusalem, and many more.