Jonathan Barnbrook
GB
Graphic designer, musician and owner of the design group ‘Barnbrook’, Jonathan Barnbrook was born in Luton in 1966. Since leaving college in 1990, he has chosen to work with a mixture of mainly cultural institutions and activist groups, believing that graphic design can be a force for cultural and social debate. As a result he has completed a steady stream of political personal work. He is also known for his collaborations with the anti-advertising collective Adbusters, Damien Hirst, and was a longtime visual collaborator of David Bowie, including the design of his last album Blackstar for which he won a Grammy. His font ‘Mason’ was one of the first digital typefaces acquired by MoMA, New York in 2013. His graphic design was exhibited in a major retrospective at the Design Museum, London in 2007 and a touring exhibition that has been shown in over ten countries.
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