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Recent articles about Jonathan Barnbrook

You can’t bomb a virusIssue 65, Autumn 2007
Review

                                                In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…                        
Hippie shake-upIssue 94, Summer 2017
Review

                                                What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…                        
Conference madnessIssue 49, Autumn 2003
Feature

                                            It’s a messy hybrid of live chat show, summer camp, theatre and rock’n’roll            
Art and art direction (text in full)Issue 38, Winter 2000
Feature

                                            imply two separate worlds, yet artists who use text employ the techniques of graphic design. And so for the pharmaceutical type pastiches in \'The Last Supper\', a series of screenprints, Damien Hirst employed designer Jon Barnbrook.             
Reputations: Jon Barnbrook, VirusIssue 15, Winter 1994
Feature

                                            One of type design’s young stars talks about his new company and the pressures of early success.            
Get the message?Issue 3, Spring 1991
Opinion

                                            Legibility is relative. Is it time we broke the tablets of stone? Agenda by Michèle-Anne Dauppe            

Recent blog posts about Jonathan Barnbrook

A sunnier classroom

15 May 2017
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Typography

When the world is in flux, book design offers ‘a refuge of certainty’. Andrew Howard explains why he founded the Porto Design Summer School

There is a particularity about the education system which we take as given – that…

Offset 2016: day three

29 April 2016
Graphic design, Illustration, Music design, Visual culture

Studio Dumbar, Niall McInnery, Andy Ristaino, Úna Burke, McBess, Stephen Averill and Shaughn McGrath … and Seb Lester. Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar conclude their coverage of the Dublin Offset conference

By the Sunday morning at Offset 2016, more coffee is required, with several extra shots…

Offset 2016: day two

26 April 2016
Graphic design, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture

Angus Hyland, Tado, Russell Mills, Assemble, Piranha Bar, Jonathan Barnbrook and GMunk. Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar continue their coverage of the Dublin conference

The beginning of the Dublin conference’s second day, Saturday 9 April, was filled with adrenalin…

Mirror mirror

18 November 2014
Graphic design, Music design, Photography, Visual culture

What do the reflections in the images for Bowie’s new compilation tell us about his relationship with the audience? By Kevin J. Hunt

Seeing someone else’s reflection in a mirror is a curious, even disconcertingly uncanny, affair, writes…

Destination design

8 July 2013
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Information design

Several quite different summer schools take design education to Portugal, Lithuania and Sicily

Summer presents a chance to explore new destinations and starting this month, a number of…

Noted #39

13 July 2012
Graphic design, Posters, Typography, Visual culture

Olympic graphics watch – pictograms, logos & signs that keep the flame alive

Here are a few reflections on Olympics graphics that caught our attention.More to come –…