Gal Sharir

Multidisciplinary designer, visual artist and developer based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

+ Interfaces
+ Code
+ Installations
+ Drawings


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+ Work Experience

2022 to present Product designer, Empathy, Israel.

2015-2022 Head of Design, Resonai, Israel.
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Worked on all products from early stages of definition, to final design and implementation. The products include Unity Visual Search, Dollhouse, and currently Vera, a computer vision platform to create intelligent digital twins of any physical space. Vera allows developers to create scalable augmented reality applications, that can later be consumed within those spaces.
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The work includes talking with clients, understanding their needs and translating them into AR experiences. Working closely with Unity developers to create the experiences, as well as web developers to create web tools for managing the digital twin. In addition, working on the developer tools definition and UX.

2011 Discretix, Israel. QA validation for DRM and content protection on Android mobile devices.

2008-2010
Army service at the IDF Intelligence Force.




+ Teaching

2022 to present Lecturer, web design studio, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

2020-2022 Teaching assistant, web design studio, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.



+ Education

2014-2018 B.Des in Visual Communication, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

2017 Exchange semester in École Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France.

2012-2014 B.Sc in computer science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.




+ Exhibitions

Jerusalem Design Week Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel. 2023.

SET Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2023.

Jerusalem Design Week Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel. 2022.


Black Box Holon Design Museum, Holon, Israel. 2021.

Notes from Home Tel Aviv illustration week, Israel. 2020.

Emergent Behavior
Generative art exhibition, Tel Aviv. 2020.
Blue Period Tel Aviv illustration week, Israel. 2019.

White Elephant Tel Aviv illustration week, Israel. 2019.

110 Maps Mazeh 9, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2019.

Garden Of Eden Jerusalem design week exhibition in DesignArt Tokyo, Japan. 2019.

Jerusalem Design Week Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel. 2019.

You are beautiful Tel Aviv, Israel. 2019.

IsraHCI 2019, Radical UI program Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 2019.

Uncanny Holon Design Museum, Holon, Israel. 2018.

Digital Pulse Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel. 2017.

Atelier 250 Paris Metro stations, France. 2017.

Art, Science and Technology An Israeli Perspective - Kiev exhibition centre, Ukraine. 2014.

T-Experience Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel. 2014.




+ Awards

2018 AICF grant for Visual Communication.

2008 The Wim van Leer Award for high school students, Jerusalem Film Festival, Best Photography for the movie 'Negative'.




+ Press

FRAME NOT FAKE NEWS: OUR HIGHLIGHTS FROM JERUSALEM DESIGN WEEK’S EXPLORATION OF THE POST-TRUTH ERA


Interior Design 11 Highlights from Jerusalem Design Week 2023

Designboom
Jerusalem Design Week 2023 plays tricks on the senses in hospice spaces


FineLine Magazine
Who’s scared of AI?

Resonai Blog Team Spotlight: Gal Sharir, Head of Design

Portfolio Magazine LAST SEEN

Designboom nature, craft, science + myth converge for 'garden of eden' exhibit at DESIGNART TOKYO

Xnet Garden of Eden exhibition at Designart Tokyo