Paul Barnes’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English graphic designer and typographer
Is Graphic designer 
Artist 
Type designer 
Designer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Arts 
Creativity 
Gender male
Birth 1970, Harlow, United Kingdom
Age: 50 years
Education
University of Reading

Paul Barnes (born 1970, Harlow, England) is a graphic designer and typographer. He has designed several new typefaces.

Career

After an education at the University of Reading, in 1992 he emigrated to the United States to work with Roger Black. In 1995 he left Roger Black and began work as a freelance designer in London. He has worked with many large corporations, making logos for such well known companies as Givenchy, ABC television and the English bands New Order, Electronic and Joy Division. With Christian Schwartz he designed the very large Guardian Egyptian family typefaces for The Guardian newspaper and operates the digital type design company Commercial Type.

In April 2007 he designed the logo for Kate Moss with Saville.

Awards

In September 2006 he was named one of the 40 most influential designers under 40 in Wallpaper and in September 2007 The Guardian named him one of the top 50 designers in Britain.

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
  • National Trust – 2009, custom for the National Trust
  • Dala Prisma – 2014

Magazine articles by Paul Barnes

  • Jonathan Hoefler, Baseline 23, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 1996
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