Ceramic works and illustrations on paper with digital printing
Between Art and Objects
2025/2026
For the 2026 Lake Como Design Festival, we are presenting a dual proposal that explores the theme of Border across two distinct but deeply connected works. Operating as a collaborative duo, we investigate the boundary between intimate, 2D illustration and 3D spatial design.
Together, these two works ask viewers to cross the boundary between mediums, challenging how we perceive scale, memory, and the space between the margin and the void. Yet, while they are conceptually in dialogue with one another, each proposal is fully realized and possesses the strength to stand entirely on its own.
Lined Paper by Naama Benziman is an acclaimed series of minimalist illustrations that examines the presence and absence of home in personal and national contexts. As the familiar image of the home and the orderly grid of a lined notebook are disrupted, the works raise themes of search, uncertainty, randomness, and arbitrariness of the present era. This series represents the emotional core and the 2D origin of our inquiry.
This proposal investigates the limits of illustration by distilling Naama Benziman’s subtle lined-paper drawings from their two-dimensional origins into the realm of material culture.
Through this transition of medium, the concept of ‘home’ is reimagined as a collection of physical objects. This multidisciplinary shift defies the boundaries of the page, inviting observers to engage with themes of safety and memory not merely as visual compositions, but as tangible forms to be experienced and integrated into living space.
A curated sequence of ceramics houses, each bearing fragments of Naama Benziman’s evocative illustrations. Within this collection, depictions of the domestic and the maritime coalesce into a panoramic horizon that spans individual forms, effectively deconstructing the spatial and conceptual limitations of the illustrated page.
Dori Oryan is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and educator whose work bridges industrial design, interactive environments, and cutting-edge digital technologies. He currently serves
as the Head of the Design Department at the Kibbutzim College of Education and Art in Tel Aviv. With a career spanning over two decades, Dori was a co-founder of the Umamy Design Group (2000–2016). His spatial practice frequently translates complex historical
and emotional narratives into immersive, monumental environments. As the head of the design team at BJA, he led the creation of major permanent exhibitions for institutions worldwide, including the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, the Holocaust Memorial Museum of Macedonia, and the Cincinnati Holocaust and Humanity Center.
Operating at the intersection of material culture and spatial intervention, Dori’s large-scale environmental work was prominently featured in the outdoor installation “From the Sands” at the Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design at the Eretz Israel Museum.
A passionate advocate for the integration of generative AI within creative frameworks, Dori's recent artistic focus explores the translation of analog memory into digital
disruption.
Naama Benziman is an illustrator and author of three children's books (all were published in Hebrew and two were also translated into English, Russian, Chinese and Korean), and an illustrator of twelve more. Among her awards are the IBBY Honor Citation, Best-in-Show in Communication Arts Illustration Annual, American Illustration and Culture Minister’s Prizes
in Literature and Design, Israel. Benziman's Lined Paper series, along with her other original artworks, are part of the permanent collection of the Swiss Museum of Avant-Garde,
contemporary section.
A Faculty Member in the Department of Visual Communications at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), holding a B.Des from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and an M.Ed. (Summa Cum Laude) in Visual Literacy from Kibbutzim College.
Her practice delves deeply into how visual narratives shape our understanding of identity, space, and emotion. Benziman’s ongoing collaborative practice with multidisciplinary designer Dori Oryan was recently featured in the exhibition Byte/Home at the Outline Jerusalem festival, exploring themes of uncertainty, randomness, and the fragility of "home" through the lens of artificial intelligence.