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A recent image of David Tartakover from his Instagram profile, in early 2023. (Screen capture/ Instagram)
Renowned graphic designer and political activist David Tartakover has died at age 81 from complications with Parkinson’s disease, according to Israel media sources.
Tartakover called himself a local designer, tackling subjects and issues that concern Israel.
He designed the now-familiar logo for Peace Now in 1978, with his work becoming the name of the organization and one of Israel’s first political bumper stickers.
Protesters from the organization Peace Now demonstrate at a cornerstone laying of a new part of the Jewish Nof Zion neighborhood in the East Jerusalem’s Jabel Mukaber on November 18, 2009. (FLASH90)
The Haifa-born designer was a paratrooper in the IDF, and later fought as a reservist in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate was known for his self-produced posters dealing with the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and his work won numerous prizes in Israel and abroad.
His works are part of major collections in Israel and worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Library in Paris, and museums of applied arts in Zurich and Hamburg.
Tartakover was awarded the Israel Prize in 2002.
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