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Jonathan Barnbrook, Feed Talk

Poster design advertising a seminar by typographer and graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook at We Are Feed. 

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Jonathan Barnbrook

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Barnbrook - Mori Arts Center: Tokyo City View

Unlike their Friendly Fire exhibition, Barnbrook have gone for a very different approach in presenting the Mori Arts Centre. The signage is made using a custom version of Barnbrook’s font ‘Bourgeois’ and the decoration on the inside of the folder mimics the directional arrows added to their logo on the envelope, but shaped to appear like a small pattern.

It feels very refined and formal, most likely to appeal to their target audience, and gives you the sense that it is very modern art centred. The tickets themselves, even though they’re just tickets and are just ephemera, look really lovely design wise. The blues work really nicely with the yellow/gold on the tower depicted as well as the edge of the paper, and the arrow motif encircles it as well, bringing it together and drawing attention.

Although creating tickets as ephemera sounded a little overdone, the way these are presented as almost souvenirs over throwaway pieces of paper by looking so refined, even in a little envelope to further staple their importance.

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Barnbrook - Design Museum: Friendly Fire

The layout they’ve chosen is really simple, a majority of the exhibition being on the walls. However, there is a lot of things going on with the imagery, posters on nearly every surface and smothered in colours. Even though visually it looks overwhelming with colour and imagery, it is separated into different sections such as with a wall of ‘Heathen’ Bowie graphics and a section on North Korea.

No real colour scheme could be to represent how overwhelming and bold the images want to be and how each piece has to be eye catching and stand out to grab the viewer’s attention.

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Barnbrook Fonts

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David Bowie ‎– ★ (Blackstar) #ColumbiaRecords #sonymusic #isorecords 2016 Artwork [Star Image] – #NASA (10) Bass – #TimLefebvre Design [Album Design By] – #Barnbrook Drums, Percussion – #MarkGuiliana Guitar – Ben Monder Lacquer Cut By – RJ* Mastered By – Joe LaPorta Mixed By – David Bowie, Tony Visconti Mixed By [Final Master Mix] – Tom Elmhirst Photography By – Jimmy King (6), Johan Renck Piano, Organ [Wurlitzer Organ], Keyboards – #JasonLindner Producer – David Bowie, Tony Visconti Saxophone, Flute, Woodwind – Donny McCaslin Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – David Bowie Words By, Music By – #DavidBowie

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“David Bowie is” exhibition catalogue, by Barnbrook.

“The studio worked directly with the curators and editors of the David Bowie Is exhibition to formulate the design of the exhibition catalogue, which became the starting point for the show’s entire identity. A set of graphic symbols, each inspired by a key moment in David Bowie’s career, are used throughout the book. These are juxtaposed with variations of the David Bowie Is phrase to give a clear bold feel. Barnbrook also worked with the photography department of the V&A to create clean, modern photographs of the exhibition objects. This catalogue quickly became one of the V&A’s best selling catalogues of all time.”