A Personal Note on Design

A Personal Note on Design

For me, design is the exciting meeting ground of ideas, people and fascinating places. Design for me is a means of observation, of contemplation. Once skills are mastered, design is a channel of expression, expansive, dynamic and diverse field of action. One can hardly find a better bridge between past and future, tradition and innovation, resources and necessities.

Design for me is a vessel which I use to wander between disciplines which may be viewed remote and permanently disconnected, to Jump over boundaries and definitions, utilizing cracks between old borders and new horizons.

My design activity meandered between theory – research by design/design research – material, and craft. Spanning these fields led my creative work to range on the one hand from design of products for widespread use, to unique one-of-akind objects on the other. Indeed, several of my works emerged from academic research and are implemented in the realm of industry, while others sprouted in the industrial-commercial field and ended in galleries and museum spaces.

In my work I enjoyed collaborating with fellow designers and scholars from wide range of disciplines. However, one of the most enjoyable part of my career is educating and exchange of ideas with the younger generation of designers – creative, sensitive and aware of their ability to create a change.

PUBLICATIONS

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Motzaei Shabbat – Makor Rishon

Motzaei Shabbat – Makor Rishon

Freedom Is Being Completely Alone

Ariel Horowitz

Published 2020

Integrated Design and Urban Resilience

Integrated Design and Urban Resilience

This conference paper presents HopeSpot, a design-led research framework exploring the role of integrated design in strengthening urban resilience and disaster risk reduction. Through a case-study approach, the work examines how applied design research can translate complex urban challenges into actionable, place-based strategies within vulnerable urban contexts.

Published 2017

form Magazine No. 280 – Grenzen / Boundaries

form Magazine No. 280 – Grenzen / Boundaries

a leading international design journal published in Germany. The issue examines the notion of boundaries from multiple perspectives – physical, cultural, technological, and ethical – through essays, research-based projects, and critical design case studies.

The publication brings together designers, researchers, and theorists working across disciplines such as industrial design, material research, digital technologies, and speculative design. It reflects on how design operates within, challenges, and redefines boundaries in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.

The issue includes contributions by Eran Lederman alongside an international group of designers and researchers, situating applied design research within broader discussions on responsibility, innovation, and the role of design in contemporary society.

Published 2018

Natur: Erkundungen aus der jüdischen Welt

Natur: Erkundungen aus der jüdischen Welt

Jewish Almanach 2021

Edited scholarly volume examining Jewish perspectives on nature, landscape, and the responsibility for preserving creation.
Published as part of the Jewish Almanach 2021, the annual German-language almanach of the Leo Baeck Institute, the book explores historical, cultural, and philosophical attitudes toward nature within Jewish life in the diaspora and in Israel.

The volume addresses the complex relationship between Jewish identity and the natural world, including perceptions of detachment from nature, longings for landscape, and the role of nature in Zionist thought and environmental practice in Israel.

Includes the essay:
“Einsame Stühle: Breslaveratzlawer Chassidim und modernes Design”
Eran Lederman and Sharon Wizer

Edited by: Prof. Gisela Dachs
Publisher: Juedischer Verlag
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: German

Published 2021

ASA 25 – Design from Israel

ASA 25 – Design from Israel

Exhibition catalogue
Espace Villeneuve-Bargemon and Galerie du Centre Design Marseille
Marseille, France

Curator – Alon Razgour

Published 2008

ARTIC 3

ARTIC 3

Exhibition catalogue
America–Israel Cultural Foundation
The Tel Aviv University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Curators – Mordechai Omer & Irit Tal

Published 2001

Chain Reaction – Israeli Jewellery 2

Chain Reaction – Israeli Jewellery 2

Exhibition catalogue
MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

Curator – Vered Kaminski

Published 2002

Tel Aviv Biennale of Craft & Design 2020

Tel Aviv Biennale of Craft & Design 2020

First Person, Second Nature

Exhibition catalogue
MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv

Curators – Debby Hershman, Henrietta Eliezer Brunner, Yuval Saar

Published 2020

Industrious Designers

Industrious Designers

Giovani Designer Israeliani

Exhibition catalogue, Abitare il Tempo Fair, Verona, Italy

Curators – Vanni Pasca, Ely Rozenberg, Nirith Nelson

Published 2002

PROGETTO CIBO – La Forma del Gusto

PROGETTO CIBO – La Forma del Gusto

Exhibition catalogue

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART),
Rovereto, Italy

Curator – Beppe Finessi

Published 2013

Violent Object

Violent Object

Exhibition catalogue

Julia Mizrachi, Vitrina Gallery, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Additional venue: “State of Design”, group exhibition, Vollgutlager, Berlin

Curators – Itay Laniado and Shira Keret

Published 2017

From Mediterranean Tradition to Israeli Contemporary Design

From Mediterranean Tradition to Israeli Contemporary Design


Exhibition catalogue
Design Museum Holon, Israel

Curator – Alon Razgour

Published 2010

CONNECTOR

CONNECTOR

A Tribute to Designer Ami Drach – Exhibition catalogue

Vitrina Gallery, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Curators – Dana Arieli & Ezri Tarazi

Published 2016

Dream Makers

Dream Makers

Design Meets Technology – Exhibition catalogue

Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Palevsky Design Pavilion

Curator – Alex Word

Published 2007

Dream Objects

Dream Objects

Sotheby’s Exhibition catalogue

Curator – Nirit Nelson

Published 2007

Reinventing Ritual

Reinventing Ritual

Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life

Exhibition catalogue
Jewish Museum, New York

Curator – Daniel Belasco

Published 2007

Urban Resilient Design Guidelines

Urban Resilient Design Guidelines

Design guidelines developed within the DESURBS research project

DESURBS – Designing Safer Urban Spaces
European Union FP7 Research Project

Published 2014

Cultural Sustainable Tourism

Cultural Sustainable Tourism

Chapter in Cultural Sustainable Tourism
Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation Series
Springer, 2017

Optimal Visual Cues for Smartphone Earthquake Alert Systems

Optimal Visual Cues for Smartphone Earthquake Alert Systems

Chapter in AI and Robotics in Disaster Studies
Palgrave Macmillan, Disaster Research and Management Series on the Global South

Supporting Decision Making in Disaster: The DiMas Tool

Supporting Decision Making in Disaster: The DiMas Tool

Chapter in Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction
Springer, 2017

AWARDS

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UNISDR -Multi-Hazard Early Warning 2017

UNISDR -Multi-Hazard Early Warning 2017

The project was awarded at the UNISDR Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 2017.

ATIR 2011

ATIR 2011

special award by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Israel for Outstanding Israeli Industrial Design for – STREET CROSSING DEVICE FOR THE VISION IMPAIRED

Rothschild Prize 2025

Rothschild Prize 2025

Shortlisted for the Rothschild Design Award, Senior Industrial Designer category

Misler Award 1999

Misler Award 1999

Best design project, Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design

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