Jonathan Barnbrook

Recent articles about Jonathan Barnbrook

Democracy is in the details

Issue 44, Summer 2002

Review

‘One more session and we’re outta here,’ said John Hockenberry. ‘We can all go back to…

You can’t bomb a virus

Issue 65, Autumn 2007

Review

In the early 1990s at the Design Museum café, mentally flitting from the coffee-machine’s slick Gaggia…

Hippie shake-up

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Review

What do Victor Moscoso’s psychedelic music posters, Harley Davidson’s Captain America chopper, the film Easy…

Conference madness

Issue 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, Virus

Issue 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

Blog posts by 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 –…

More TYPO Berlin

30 May 2010
Graphic design, Reviews, Typography

Likes and dislikes: part two of Eye’s coverage of the 2010 conference
The fifteenth TYPO Berlin brought together some international heavyweight speakers over three balmy spring days…

At the mercy of the Twitter critics

24 May 2010
Graphic design, Technology, Typography, Visual culture

Robin Richmond is left wondering what defines value at TYPO Berlin. Part one of two reports
TYPO Berlin 2010 is Europe’s largest design conference, writes Robin Richmond, with 1500 delegates from…