One of our favourite illustrators, and a past-contributor to Blueprint, Noma Bar will be celebrated in a new exhibition that opens at BAFTA in central London this week. From Thursday on, visitors will be able to see examples of Bar’s funny, intelligent and consistently elegant work, focusing particularly on his portraits of celebrities (including Charlie Chaplin, pictured above. Using familiar signs and graphic components, Bar creates portraits using only the simplest of gestures: the result lays somewhere between caricature and pure graphics. His latest project was to design covers for the 2009 BAFTA Awards ‘Prequel‘ brochure; there are some examples below.
The Many Faces of Noma Bar will be at BAFTA, Piccadilly, London, 19 February–8 April. Bar is represented by Dutch Uncle, and screenprints of his work are available here
