Yael Alkalay
  • Gallery
    • Volume
    • Metropolis - Mobile Street Game
    • Taxi iPhone app
    • 8hands - Social Network Aggregator
    • The Little Library
    • UNESCO's International Festival of Cultural Diversity
    • YADATI!
    • Mock-ups
    • Kzarzar - Digital short story brand
    • TargetedMobi - Mobile CPA Network
    • Dream Center
    • Crafting Excellence Logo
    • "Museum at Eldridge Street" Branding
    • Calendar Design
    • Fall Installation
    • Printmaking
    • Journey
    • Insight
  • Resume
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  • Volume
    Music cross platform service.
    Hebrew and Arabic.

    http://volume.cellcom.co.il
    Art Direction, User Interface Design, Interaction Design
    2012
  • Metropolis - Mobile Street Game
    Metropolis is a free cellular-based game that takes place on the streets of the city. In the cut and thrust of this virtual world, the goal of each player is to become the biggest property tycoon. The idea is to offer a 'mobile street game', which enables the users to check in to real locations but then take responsibility for them, just like they would in Monopoly. This application was produced for Cellcom Israel. Metropolis applies LBS mobile cross-platform technology and was designed as an application for iPhone and Android devices.

    Metropolis in ME -" Mobile Entertainment", Checking in all over Israel
    http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/checking-in-all-over-israel/0633

    2011 Metropolis LBS Game Wins AT&T Open Call Competition at CTIA Wireless 2011, Orlando, FL.
    Interaction Design, Art Direction, User Interface Design
    2011
  • Taxi iPhone app
    Taxi provides a tool for quickly locating a taxi service in Israel. Using GPS, this location-based application, establishes the user’s position and then identifies the nearest taxi, in the fastest time possible. Taxi removes the need to telephone a Taxi.
    Interaction Design, Art Direction, User Interface Design
    2011
  • 8hands - Social Network Aggregator
    8hands is a social network aggregator.
    From a single interface - 8hands keeps users on top of all their social networks, sites and blogs.
    Design, Interaction Design, User Interface Design
    2012
  • The Little Library
    Children Story Book App.
    The Little Library is an iPhone application, allowing users to read well loved Israeli children stories on their mobile phone.
    Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Art Direction
    2012
  • UNESCO's International Festival of Cultural Diversity
    The logo was chosen by UNESCO to be the winner of the Cultural Diversity logo competition.

    The logo for the International Festival represents Cultural Diversity. The symbol is inspired by the urban environment and the nowadays digital life. It combines architectural shapes of the city with an oversize pixels shapes.The color combination is bright colors. The palette takes a contemporary approach while represents the Cultural Diversity.
    Design, Graphic Design, Branding
    2009
  • YADATI!
    YADATI! is a online fun trivia quizze, where you have only two options to choose from - Yes or No?
    Design, Branding
    2012
  • Mock-ups
    Mobile applications mock-ups.
    Art Direction, User Interface Design, Design
    2012
  • Kzarzar - Digital short story brand
    Kzarzar - Digital short story logo design
    Branding, Design, Interaction Design
    2012
  • TargetedMobi - Mobile CPA Network
    TargetedMobi - Mobile CPA Network, logo design
    Design
    2012
  • Dream Center
    The Dream Center is an arts education program for the children of the UNESCO/Tribute 21 Fund. My competition entry drew inspiration from the participating continents' shapes and forms, when viewed on a map or globe, as well as introducing an impression of arts and crafts. During my working process I attempted to break out of any preconceptions that might limit the design. As a result the logo was initially hand-made by cutting paper sheets and spreading them all over my workspace. This led to a hand-crafted more organic approach with a contemporary feel.
    Branding, Graphic Design, Design
    2010
  • Crafting Excellence Logo
    The Excellence for Handicrafts Award - logo design celebrates worldwide traditions of arts and crafts. My inspiration came from the indigenous and highly skilled techniques, patterns and themes found in every continent. To produce my concept, I created the base manually. My intention was to generate something that was clearly hand-made, and yet had a contemporary feel. The logo was designed to inspire people and to raise global awareness on the value of supporting and sustaining local art and craft in an increasingly globalized world.
    Design, Graphic Design, Branding
    2010
  • "Museum at Eldridge Street" Branding
    Taking place in New York, this project involved developing a new institutional identity for the opening of the Museum at Eldridge Street. The opening was the exciting culmination of a 25-year restoration project of the Eldridge Street Synagogue in the Lower East Side. This venture was part of an exchange student program at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Professional Practice class by Mindy Lang.

    The 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue is a national historic landmark. The design for the Museum at Eldridge Street had to incorporate the rich culture, history and tradition throughout the various waves of Jewish immigration that flocked to the Lower East Side from Europe. Clear parallels were drawn between this and the diverse cultural communities that have settled in wider America.
    Branding
    2008
  • Calendar Design
    This Conceptual Calendar Design was originally created as an experimental typography project. The Calendar presents both Gregorian and Jewish calendar dates, displaying both Hebrew and Latin letters side by side.
    To produce my concept, I started with a handmade base. I then integrated shades of light, using various techniques and angles. The colors were chosen to evoke the atmosphere of each unique season. I concluded by taking screen shots of all elements.
    Graphic Design, Photography
    2008
  • Fall Installation
    The installation was inspired by my first experience of the beautiful, Bostonian fall. Driven by this experience, I have created the "Fall" installation in the Doran Gallery, MassArt, Boston.The "Fall" installation is composed of real leaves placed in a circle on the floor of the gallery. The leaves are shaped as a perfect circle, made out of two hues of leaves. At the middle of the circle, there are red leaves which are surrounded by yellow and brown leaves. The viewer can view, smell and touch the leaves. The installation can be viewed from the inside as well from the outside of the gallery - from the street. Due to the natural process of decomposition the "Fall" installation is dynamic and constantly changing. As time goes by, the leaves rot. The natural process affects the perfect circle's shape, the smell and the density of air in the gallery.

    My wish was to capture a passing moment in time and place. The installation expresses the dynamic boundaries of our world - seasons, places, and environments. This project questions the dynamic relationships between the outside and the inside, the natural and the artificial. I desired to capture an authentic human encounter with nature and to reconstruct it in a controlled environment.
    Fine Arts, Installation Design, Sculpting
    2012
  • Printmaking
    I lived in Manhattan for few months. During this time, I collected the mail and printed on the envelopes my drawings of New York architecture, using Lithography printmaking technique.
    Print Design, Fine Arts, Drawing
    2009
  • Journey
    In 2008, I participated in "Journey to the Jewish Heritage" with the Zalman Shazar and Avi-Hai Foundations. This year long study seminar in Israel explored the Jewish community in Hungary before the 2nd World War and included a one month journey through Hungary, where we recorded and documented Jewish heritage in collaboration with History, Architecture and Art students.
    Design, Photography, Documentary
    2012
  • Insight
    Project in process.

    The "Insight" project is a world map presentation which is composed of people's points of view from all around the world. Along with the user's city information, the platform presents two photos by each user: 1. A picture of the view from his/her window (the exterior). 2. The view of the inside of the room (the interior). The two photos are a chance for a more personal, individual output of our world today. While in social networks the users are limited to their own friends' data, here they have the chance to discover and explore different people, places and cultures. In this platform the boundaries of objective and subjective, personal and public are blurred by the users and their individuals insights. "Insight" celebrates culture diversity and the connection between people. From Hong-Kong to Barcelona, we get insights into the authentic lives of people around the world. This glance allows us to participate in the daily being of someone geographically and culturally distant. The goal of the project is to increase mutual understanding worldwide.

    In addition to the virtual world, the project also exists in the physical world. The pictures from "Insight" are projected on building facades in different cities and countries. The projection takes place in the urban landscape, and it is accessible to the community. The images are projected from the inside of the building's windows on to a screen located in the window and facing the street. From the street view, different windows contain different images from around the world. These continually change showing views from different cities. People in their own familiar urban environment are able to explore and discover different cities and individuals' interiors. I hope that by a fun and engaging experience people will broaden their horizon to new perspectives.

    The following pictures was taking by: Danny, Ella, Yael, Lev, Uri, Anat, Tomoko, Ziv.

    I'll be happy for new pictures, if you would like to participate please kindly send me your views to:
    hello.insight@gmail.com
    Thank you :)
    Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Photography
    2012
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