Ezri Tarazi

Ezri Tarazi

Prof. Ezri Tarazi (b. Ezra Tarazi, Jerusalem, 1962) Israeli industrial designer and educator

1986-90, Tarazi studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Subsequently, he was a coordinator of instructors' education for leadersthip in the Maritime Academy of the Israeli Navy. Early employment included serving as the project manager of industrial-design projects at DEA R&D in Jerusalem in 1990–96, and somewhat concurrently, was active as a freelance designer in 1993–96. 1996-2004, he was the head of the Department of Industrial Design at the Bezalel Academy and, 2004–06, chaired the Bezalel master's-degree program in industrial design.

Tarazi has been active as a professional designer for a number of clients who produce a range of high-tech and office equipment and devices and, on an experimental level, for domestic goods. 1998–2000, he was a partner of IDEO Israel (an affiliate of IDEO California), now disbanded. In 2006, he became director of the design studio in Herzalya, Israel, where Keter Plastic products are designed. (Keter is a large Israeli manufacturer of products, including an iconic and ubiquitous inexpensive plastic stacking chair.) From 1992 and for over a decade, Tarazi has written on design issues for a number of publications, including for Haaretz newspaper in Tel Aviv. His best-known work is the 2005 "New Baghdad" table produced by Edra of Milan, Italy.

Established in 1996, the Tarazi Design Studio is located in Shoham, Israel.

References

* Byars, Mel (2003). "Design in Steel", London: Laurence King. | ISBN 1-85669-313-9
* Byars, Mel (2004). "The Design Encyclopedia", New York: The Museum of Modern Art, p. 732. | ISBN 0-87070-012-X)
* Byars, Mel (2006). "New Chairs: Design, Materials, and Technology", San Francisco: Chronicle Books. | ISBN 1-85669-313-9

External links

* [http://www.tarazistudio.com Tarazi Design Studio website]


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