Jonathan Barnbrook
Information about the font designer Jonathan Barnbrook and his typefaces.
Jonathan Barnbrook and his studio have been active since 1990, working across a broad range of disciplines including graphic design, industrial design, typeface design and film. Barnbrook Design is based in Soho, London and consists of three designersÊand a coordinator, originating from England, Japan and Brazil. They are Jonathan Barnbrook, Elle Kawano, Pedro Inoue and Marcus McCallion.The studio divides its time between commercial work on an international basis for museums and cultural institutions and non-commercial projects. One of Barnbrook Design's most visible forms of activity is in the world of typeface design where they have extended a socio-political view to this often quietly traditional world. Producing typefaces based on historical forms but with a very contemporary subversive influence and titled in an appropriately confrontational manner. Typefaces with names such as 'Manson' (American serial-killer), Exocet (French missile) and Bastard (English swear word) have garnered both praise and criticism for the highlighting of the relationship of words to the letterforms that represent them.Non-commercial collaborations include art directing and producing work with 'Adbusters' the leading activist magazine. The studio also puts great effort into developing and producing work which highlights political and social injustices that are offered for free and without copyright restrictions on the studio's website (www.barnbrook.net, www.virusfonts.com). Recently the studio has increasingly taken part in exhibitions of specially commissioned artworks.ÊCommercial collaborations include major corporate identities for Roppongi Hills, the largest post was development in Tokyo, and Mori Art Museum, a new internationally-based contemporary art museum also located in Tokyo. In Britain, Barnbrook Design had become very well known as a result of collaboration with major figures in the British art scene such as the Saatchi Gallery and Damien Hirst, for whom he designed his book 'I Want To Spend The Rest of My Life, Everywhere with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. Barnbrook Design has also designed the past two David Bowie album covers.
[DJD, March 2006]
Fonts designed by Jonathan Barnbrook:
Apocalypso CrossesApocalypso PictogramsBastard Even FatterBastard FatBourgeoisBourgeois AlternateBourgeois CondensedBourgeois Condensed AlternateBourgeois LightBourgeois Light AlternateBourgeois Light CondensedBourgeois Light Condensed AlternateBourgeois UltraBourgeois Ultra AlternateBourgeois Ultra CondensedBourgeois Ultra Condensed AlternateComaComa BlackDeluxDoublethinkDoublethink Bold InlineDraylonDrone No 666Drone No 90210EchelonEchelon AlternateExocet HeavyExocet LightExpletive ScriptExpletive Script AlternateExpletive Script Light
Expletive Script Light AlternateFalse IdolFalse Idol ScriptInfidel AInfidel BInfidel CInfidel DMasonMason AlternateMason SansMason Sans AlternateMelancholiaMoronNewspeak HeavyNewspeak LightNixon ScriptNylonPatriot HeavyPatriot LightPriori SansPriori Sans AlternatePriori SerifPriori Serif AlternatePrototypeProzak LiteProzak MaxShock & Awe Enola GayShock & Awe TomahawkTouretteTourette Extreme
Jonathan Barnbrook and his studio have been active since 1990, working across a broad range of disciplines including graphic design, industrial design, typeface design and film. Barnbrook Design is based in Soho, London and consists of three designersÊand a coordinator, originating from England, Japan and Brazil. They are Jonathan Barnbrook, Elle Kawano, Pedro Inoue and Marcus McCallion.The studio divides its time between commercial work on an international basis for museums and cultural institutions and non-commercial projects. One of Barnbrook Design's most visible forms of activity is in the world of typeface design where they have extended a socio-political view to this often quietly traditional world. Producing typefaces based on historical forms but with a very contemporary subversive influence and titled in an appropriately confrontational manner. Typefaces with names such as 'Manson' (American serial-killer), Exocet (French missile) and Bastard (English swear word) have garnered both praise and criticism for the highlighting of the relationship of words to the letterforms that represent them.Non-commercial collaborations include art directing and producing work with 'Adbusters' the leading activist magazine. The studio also puts great effort into developing and producing work which highlights political and social injustices that are offered for free and without copyright restrictions on the studio's website (www.barnbrook.net, www.virusfonts.com). Recently the studio has increasingly taken part in exhibitions of specially commissioned artworks.ÊCommercial collaborations include major corporate identities for Roppongi Hills, the largest post was development in Tokyo, and Mori Art Museum, a new internationally-based contemporary art museum also located in Tokyo. In Britain, Barnbrook Design had become very well known as a result of collaboration with major figures in the British art scene such as the Saatchi Gallery and Damien Hirst, for whom he designed his book 'I Want To Spend The Rest of My Life, Everywhere with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. Barnbrook Design has also designed the past two David Bowie album covers.
[DJD, March 2006]
Fonts designed by Jonathan Barnbrook:
Apocalypso CrossesApocalypso PictogramsBastard Even FatterBastard FatBourgeoisBourgeois AlternateBourgeois CondensedBourgeois Condensed AlternateBourgeois LightBourgeois Light AlternateBourgeois Light CondensedBourgeois Light Condensed AlternateBourgeois UltraBourgeois Ultra AlternateBourgeois Ultra CondensedBourgeois Ultra Condensed AlternateComaComa BlackDeluxDoublethinkDoublethink Bold InlineDraylonDrone No 666Drone No 90210EchelonEchelon AlternateExocet HeavyExocet LightExpletive ScriptExpletive Script AlternateExpletive Script Light
Expletive Script Light AlternateFalse IdolFalse Idol ScriptInfidel AInfidel BInfidel CInfidel DMasonMason AlternateMason SansMason Sans AlternateMelancholiaMoronNewspeak HeavyNewspeak LightNixon ScriptNylonPatriot HeavyPatriot LightPriori SansPriori Sans AlternatePriori SerifPriori Serif AlternatePrototypeProzak LiteProzak MaxShock & Awe Enola GayShock & Awe TomahawkTouretteTourette Extreme
