Omer Arbel

Omer Arbel (born 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver. His output is broad, including materials research, lighting design, building design and site specific installations.^[1] He is one of two co-founders of Bocci, a Canadian design and manufacturing company.^[2] Arbel's designs are numbered in order of creation (1.1 – 113 at the time of writing).^[2] Arbel invents processes (manual, mechanical, or chemical) that generate novel forms, privileging analog processes and traditional skills such as glassblowing, concrete forming, and metalwork as ongoing sources of inspiration and innovation.^[3] The objects, installations, and buildings realized in this way are to some degree unpredictable and variable, a meeting place between nature and technology, a potentially endless series of exceptions for which there is no restrictive rule.