Milton and I

You may not have seen it in if you haven’t checked out our links section, but in 2003 I had a rather interesting telephone conversation with Milton Glaser about how we can make a difference as designers in society .

Seen: Unusual Typographic Gravestones – Patrick Caulfield

Many of you who followed my work will know one of my main inspirations and areas of interest has been memorials and stone-carved lettering. (I even wrote a thesis about them for my BA at Central St. Martins).

Typographic Machine by Tom Foulsham

I have linked to a little film of an amazing typographic contraption I saw last week in an exhibition by Tom Foulsham called The Table That Can Tell Stories And Other Contraptions at Minnie Weisz studio.

Buy Nothing Day

As a little treat for mailing list subscribers, we announced our celebration of this years Buy Nothing Day by releasing Apocalypso Pictograms for free (for personal/non-commercial use) for a limited time.

December iPhone Wallpapers

To get you in the festive spirit, we have released another set of free iPhone wallpapers through the store section of VirusFonts.com.

Internship: Way

Izzy Way is the latest intern to have worked at Barnbrook design, she has made some valuable contributions to various book projects and VirusFonts promotions, we are grateful for all her hard work.

New Project: Newspeak (Hermitage) Catalogue

Barnbrook design has recently completed work on the catalogue for Newspeak, a show of new British Art held at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. The show is jointly presented by the Hermitage and the Saatchi Gallery, which will host an expanded version of the show in two parts during 2010.

New Project: Roppongi Hills Website

We are proud to announce the launch of the redesigned Roppongi Hills Website.

Virus Mailing List

After the success of the VirusFonts site relaunch we have re-started our mailing list, now in wonderful technicolour .

iPhone Wallpapers on Virus

New to the downloads page of our store section this month, we have a selection of free new iPhone wallpapers for you to jazz up your beloved telephone (meaning you can take it out and look at it even more the 30 second intervals that you do at the moment).