JOHNATON BRANBROOK

JOHNATON BRANBROOK

Since graduating from Saint Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, he started Barnbrook Design in 1990 we tend to do work with certain clients and not others, if a client comes to us and acts in a way we dont like then we wont work with them. This has meant turning down high prot jobs from companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds

Barnbrook has developed a multifaceted practice that includes activism, graphic design, typeface design, industrial design and motion graphics. In 1990 Johnathon branbrook started Barnbrook Design

1997 he established his own font company VirusFonts, releasing well-known fonts such as Bastard and Tourette

In 2010, his most famous typeface Mason released by Emigre became one of the rst digital acquisitions of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

clients do not like designers with opinions

JOHNATON BRANBROOK

Branbrook is also highly interested in expressing the value of using design as a weapon for social change often turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself,

During 2009, the exhibition Collateral Damage presented a retrospective of Jonathan Barnbrooks more political design output, and travelled to multiple countries including France, Slovenia and Croatia. The show utilized an abundance of visual puns that forced the viewer to question their individual relationship with commerce and political rockstars

Barnbrook has art directed for the anti-corporate collective Adbusters. a bi-monthly magazine edited by Kalle Lasn based in Canada, they are an anti-advertising publication and website that seeks to expose the harm that advertising and large corporations do to us

graphic design is not just about marketing

lectures Currently Jonathan Barnbrook has a research position at Middlesex University where he is working on a project about Northern Ireland while overseeing a number of students working on their own projects on the same subject matter. graphic design is not just about marketing, it is not just an industry, it is a powerful tool of mass-communication, giving you the potential to communicate what you believe in to an huge amount of people. design shapes the environment, changing the way we perceive things and informing our choices. In this sense, design is a culturally valid form of expression with something to say. He also stated that he believes design can change the world when it works in service of the right people and gets an issue on the mainstream political agenda.

Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them.

TIBOR KALMAN

He created a billboard in 2001 entitled Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them quoting inuential American graphic designer Tibor Kalman publicising the manifesto. Barnbrook has also produced many copyright-free designs for political or social justice purposes.

Jonathan Barnbrook Nick Bell Andrew Blauvelt Hans Bockting Irma Boom Sheila Levrant de Bretteville Max Bruinsma Sin Cook Linda van Deursen Chris Dixon William Drenttel Gert Dumbar Simon Esterson Vince Frost Ken Garland Milton Glaser Jessica Helfand Steven Heller Andrew Howard Tibor Kalman Jeffery Keedy Zuzana Licko Ellen Lupton Katherine McCoy Armand Mevis J. Abbott Miller Rick Poynor Lucienne Roberts Erik Spiekermann Jan van Toorn Teal Triggs Rudy VanderLans Bob Wilkinson
In 1999 He participated in the First Things First 2000 Manifesto, signed by graphic designers, students and photographers who proposed a reversal of priorities in the way graphic design was used commercially.

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