Spiller

Paul Barnes

A large family of related faces designed with Tim Ripper for the Victoria & Albert Museum with design consultant Mark Porter. The family compromises the core of a characterful sans serif and variations upon this: width, contrast, rounded, mono and a serif companion.

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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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    A large family of related faces designed with Tim Ripper for the Victoria & Albert Museum with design consultant Mark Porter. The family compromises the core of a characterful sans serif and variations upon this: width, contrast, rounded, mono and a serif companion.

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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.