David Bowie is printed

“We’re in the Victoria and Albert Museum preparing to rifle through your drawers It’s truly an amazing thing” – Tilda Swinton

New Fonts: Doctrine and Doctrine Stencil

Doctrine is the new typeface from VirusFonts. It is the first to be released by the foundry in three years and found its debut outing on the new David Bowie album The Next Day.

David Bowie is the subject of this book

“He flooded plain everyday reality with extraordinary, unexpected information, processing the details through a buoyant, mobile mind, and made intellectual discovery seem incredibly glamorous.

The Next Day packaging design

Since this will be shortly released to the world we thought we would give you a first look at the CD cover of new David Bowie album The Next Day.

Barnbrook’s Top albums of 2012

During January we would normally reveal our top ten albums of the last year. But what with the a certain album release, we have been a little sidetracked.

Closing this weekend: Unexpected Pleasures

Unexpected Pleasures: the art and design of contemporary jewellery closes at the Design Museum this Sunday 3 March, so there is just a few days left to view the exhibition.

David Bowie: The Next Day. That album cover design

There has been much discussion surrounding the cover of the new David Bowie album The Next Day

Include Design

The proposal by the UK government to introduce a new EBacc qualification in place of GCSEs will mean arts subjects are no longer recognised qualifications. This mindless myopia threatens the very future of the arts and will impact the creative economy in this country.

Internship: Crump

The fourth quarter of 2012 was incredibly busy for the studio and we neglected to announce our final intern of the year,

New Work for 2013

Happy new year to you readers. As the proverbial hangover dissipates and we look forward to 2013, we are anticipating a big year for the studio.