Avinoam ‘Noma’ Bar is an Israel-born artist and graphic designer renowned for his negative space artworks that have adorned the covers of over 100 magazines. He has published over 550 illustrations and even released two books of his work: (1) Negative Space and (2) Guess Who – The Many Faces of Noma Bar.
Bar’s work has been featured in publications such as The Economist, BBC, The Observer and he was also awarded the prestigious Yellow Pencil at the D&AD. It’s impossible to feature all of his good works here as they are too many in number but we’ve shortlisted 60 that we think, are his best. Check them out below.
1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Desert War
3. Drugs and doping in professional cycling
4. Gun crime
5. How fashion loves art
6. If Turkey explodes
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Mad Men
10. Saudi vs. Irani
11. Lion Films
12. Africa Rising
13. American Psycho
14. Bad hangover
15. Bomb
16. Book cover
17. Breaking Bad
18. Burkha ban
19. Cocaine
20. Domestic violence
21. Erotic science
22. Extra legroom
23. Final cut
24. Great Jones Street
25. Hangover
26. Help local fishermen
27. Hunger
28. IBM: Drivers
29. IBM: Fresh Food
30. Iraqi oil
31. Jaws
32. Kenny
33. Kingsman
34. Look out
35. Nazis
36. Lonely night
37. Paris attacks
38. Pensions and property
39. Pointed sense
40. Power to the individual
41. Rape in war
42. Red Riding Hood
43. RIP David Bowie
44. RIP Johan Cruyff
45. RIP Leonard Nimoy
46. Rush
47. S&M
48. Shy Guy
49. Silence of the Lambs
50. SOTA Music Festival
51. Opel: Spinach
52. Swimmer
53. Tarantino
54. Taxi Driver
55. Tea for two
56. Pin-up girl
57. Top Gun
58. Wearable technologies
59. Wish you were here
60. Which came first?
Our favourites: no. 8 (Pulp Fiction), 9 (Mad Men) and 33 (Kingsman). What about you? Share this post with an art lover and voice your views in the comments below. All images © Noma Bar.