Research For Final Project: Typographer 2: Paul Barnes:

Paul Barnes is a graphic designer who specializes in lettering, typography, type design and publication design. He was born in 1970 and in the early 90’s he worked for Roger Black in New York where he was involved in the redesigns of ‘Newsweek’ in the US and the British ‘Esquire’ and ‘Foreign Affairs’. He later returned to America and became the art director of the music magazine ‘Spin’. Since 1995 he has lived and worked in London. He has designed lots of books for publishers all over Europe. His interest in the modern and vernacular is shown through his type designs. They range from contemporary such as the design for Björk and to the extensive traditional British modern such as Brunel. In 2006 he was named one of the 40 most influential designers under 40 (in ‘Wallpaper) and a year later he was named one of the 50 best designers in Britain by ‘The Guardian’.

Typefaces designed by Paul Barnes

• Brunel - 1996
• Stephenson Sans - 2001
• Ironbridge - 2002
• Pagan Poetry - 2002
• Austin - 2003
• Stockholm - 2004
• Dala Floda - 2005
• Guardian Egyptian - 2005, with Christian Schwartz
• Marian - 2005

Link to a site where you can view his works: http://moderntypography.com/Typedesign/index.html