Guerrilla graphics

“Friendly Fire”, the retrospective dedicated to Barnbrook at the Design Museum in London (until October 10), describes the experiments from the early 1990s and leads right up to more recent collaborations with Damien Hirst and David Bowie.

Typography, corporate identities, motion graphics, industrial design and revolutionary covers for CDs, magazines and books. The prolific and heterogeneous work of Jonathan Barnbrook has always maintained two distinctive traits: a high level of social commitment (he is an active contributor to the Canadian anti-consumerism magazine Adbusters) and a profound desire to provoke (exemplified by the names of his most famous fonts, developed for Emigre and the Virus label, Prozac, Bastard, Infidel…).

“Friendly Fire”, the retrospective dedicated to Barnbrook at the Design Museum in London (until October 10), describes the experiments from the early 1990s and leads right up to more recent collaborations with Damien Hirst and David Bowie. The first monograph, published for the occasion with the eloquent title of Barnbrook Bible, brings together the twenty-year career of this prodigious talent of British graphic design. E.S.

Until 10.10.2007
Friendly Fire. Jonathan Barnbrook
Design Museum
Shad Thames London SE1 2YD
http://www.designmuseum.org/ – http://www.barnbrook.net/

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“Friendly Fire”, the retrospective dedicated to Barnbrook at the Design Museum in London (until October 10), describes the experiments from the early 1990s and leads right up to more recent collaborations with Damien Hirst and David Bowie.

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