week 8 graphic designer

Jonathan Barnbrook is a popular contemporary British graphic designer, typographer and filmmaker. He is best known for designing David Bowie's album Heathen in 2002. Currently, he runs his own studio Barnbrook Design which he founded in 1990. He has become a multifaceted practitioner of graphic design, typeface design, motion graphics, activism and industrial design. Bowie requested him to design cover art for other albums including Reality and The Next Day which hold a rather controversial reputation. According to Barnbrook, record cover artwork designing is possibly one of the factors that attracted his attention toward graphic design. Besides designing album covers, Barnbrook has created multiple fonts such as False Idol, Exocet, Newspeak, Awe, Infidel, Sarcastic, Shock and Moron. They worked together mainly on layout, design and typography of his strangely titled book I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. Barnbrook's graphic designs follow a recurring thematic pattern based on his personal responses to political events. Barnbroonk set it as his goal in life to use his talent of graphic designing as a weapon for social change and justice. The manifesto required the graphic designers to pledge their sense of social justice to their job. In 2001, Barnbrook adapted one of Tibor Kalman's quotes for his eponymous work, Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them. A graphically-designed magazine, Adbusters, devoted to political and social causes sought his designing skills for the magazines. Barnbrook's work is quite well known in Japan as his studio created the corporate identity for the largest post war development in Tokyo, Roppongi Hills. An exhibition of his work, entitled Friendly Fire, was mounted at the Design Museum in London, in 2007.

 

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