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MayShaked

Graphic designer & illustratorVisual Communication student at Bezalel, year 3

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The Plot

2026 · Booklet · Website · Motion teaser

A project exploring conspiracy theories and mysterious deaths of prominent twentieth-century figures.

Booklet
Booklet spread: a full-page black and white photograph beside a quiet white page
Red and black booklet cover with the Hebrew title The Plot
Booklet spread with dense text columns and photographs
Website
Website landing screen with a red halftone photograph and a large Hebrew headline
Website grid of four photographs with a red panel highlighted on hover
Website lecture page with a photograph and a red text panel
Website booklet launch page with the large red title The Plot over a black and white photograph
Motion teaser

The Underground Prisoners Museum

2026 · Posters · Logo · Booklet · Icon system

Creating a fresh, inviting visual identity for an iconic Jerusalem landmark.

Posters
Two posters for the Underground Prisoners Museum on a concrete wall: a red one with Hebrew title and icons, and a navy one with a running figure
Logo
Underground Prisoners Museum logo: a building mark with vertical bars beside the Hebrew museum name
Booklet
Stack of black museum booklets with white icons and the Hebrew museum name on the cover
Icon system
Icon system: black cut-out illustrations of a dove, key, chains, grenade, hammer, a running figure and more

Kutza

2026 · Logo · Packaging · Brand system · Made with Ayelet Rosenzweig

Branding for a fictional Israeli alcoholic beverage company specializing in fermented prickly pear drinks.

@kutza_drink on Instagram
Three festival posters for Kutza on a dark concrete wall, in purple, red and orange, each with the spiky mascot and a different city photograph
Three Kutza cans on a magenta background: green, pink and yellow labels with the mascot and the zigzag logo
Three Kutza snack bags on sand: magenta, orange and purple, each with the mascot dancing
Top view of the Kutza launch table: cap, tote bags, cans and snack bags above three posters on a white wall
Close-up of Kutza snack bags and cans lying together
The Kutza Instagram profile grid: mascot illustrations, cans in the desert, posters and beach photographs
A Kutza Instagram post: the pink zigzag logo over a crowded Tel Aviv beach party, people holding Kutza cans

Agents of Change

2025 · Book covers · Typography

A series of typographic book covers for biographies of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr.

The three book spines side by side: green, red and navy, each with a patterned ornament and a Hebrew title
Red biography cover with the letter Gimel built from a gold ornamental pattern; front, spine and back
Green biography cover with the letter Nun built from a yellow ornamental pattern; front, spine and back
Navy biography cover with the letter Mem built from a red ornamental pattern; front, spine and back

Magazine Covers

2026 · Editorial illustration · Magazine covers

Two magazine cover illustrations exploring the theme of family, one for children and the other for adults.

Family issue
Two copies of the family issue magazine side by side, pink and yellow colorways
Music magazine
Columbus music magazine cover: a grandfather and granddaughter holding a Beatles record beside a turntable, drawn in colored pencil

Type Specimen

2025 · Type specimen · Layout

A typographic specimen showcasing the versatility and potential applications of the Futurism typeface.

Specimen mockup: a folded cover, the opened specimen sheet with typographic diagrams, and the poster side with a large Hebrew title on a green-and-black letter pattern
Poster side of the specimen: a white circle with the Hebrew title over a pattern of green letter fragments on black
Specimen sheet: the typeface Futurism shown with its design logic, alphabet, weights and short texts on green, black and white shapes

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