Commercial Classics

Paul Barnes

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    Paul Barnes, UK (2024)

    Paul Barnes is a designer specialising in typography and type design. He lives in London. He has been an advisor and consultant on numerous publications, including Wallpaper*, Harper’s Bazaar and...

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    Paul Barnes, UK (2024)

    Paul Barnes is a designer specialising in typography and type design. He lives in London.

    He has been an advisor and consultant on numerous publications, including Wallpaper*, Harper’s Bazaar and frieze. As typographic consultant to The Guardian in 2005 he designed the Guardian set of typefaces with Christian Schwartz for the iconic redesign of the newspaper under the direction of Mark Porter. With Schwartz he founded Commercial Type in 2010. He has made custom faces for Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Trust, Visa, Puma and Rapha. He has designed many retail faces including the iconic Dala Floda and Marian.

    He has taught and lectured extensively in the UK, Europe, US, Asia and Australia.

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    Marian: Une collection de revivals

    (2012)

    • Paul Barnes

    Ypsilon Éditeur

    Chronicling the creation of the typeface Marian, a series of revivals of some of the canons of the seriffed world in an unexpected way.