1 Week to Go! AGDA International Speaker Tour: Paul Barnes (UK) + Christian Schwartz (USA)

7th June, 2011

Hot on the heels of AGDA's recent international speaker tour in April, we are delighted to host Paul Barnes & Christian Schwartz, partners of type foundry Commercial Type, for the next AGDA International Speaker Tour in June.

Paul and Christian will discuss the highs and lows, twists and turns of their design and business processes.

You can register for the event in your state by clicking the links below:

13 June Perth talk

14 June Adelaide talk

15 June Hobart talk

16 June Melbourne talk

17 June Melbourne workshop

20 June Sydney talk

21 June Brisbane talk

22 June Canberra talk 

Paul Barnes (born 1970) is a graphic designer specializing in the fields of lettering, typography, type design and publication design. In the early 1990s he worked for Roger Black in New York where he was involved in redesigns of Newsweek, US and British Esquire and Foreign Affairs. During this time he art directed Esquire Gentleman and U&lc He later returned to America to be art director of the music magazine Spin.

Since 1995 Paul has lived and worked in London. He has formed a long term collaboration with Peter Saville, which has resulted in such diverse work as identities for Givenchy, ‘Original Modern' for Manchester and numerous music based projects, such as Gay Dad, New Order, Joy Division and Electronic. Independently he has created identities for luxury Italian shoe manufacturer, Gianvito Rossi and German publisher, Schirmer Graf.

Barnes has also been an advisor and consultant on numerous publications, notably The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian and The Observer Newspapers, GQ, Wallpaper*, Harper's Bazaar and frieze. He has designed many books for publishers all over Europe including, Schirmer Mosel, Oxford University Press, the Tate and the iconic Schirmer Graf series.

His interest in the modern and vernacular is encompassed in his type design ranging from the contemporary such as for Björk, through to the extensive traditional British modern, Brunel as seen in Condé NastPortfolio. Whilst consultant to The Guardian he designed Guardian Egyptian with Christian Schwartz. In 2008 Schwartz and Barnes will launch a new foundry of original designs, and also St Bride Typefoundry of traditional British designs.

Following the redesign of The Guardian, as part of the team headed by Mark Porter, Barnes was awarded the Black Pencil from the D&AD. They were also nominated for the Design Museum ‘Designer of the Year'. In September 2006, with Schwartz he was named one of the 40 most influential designers under 40 in Wallpaper*. A year later The Guardian named him as one of the 50 best designers in Britain.

For more of Paul's work visit www.moderntypography.com

Christian Schwartz (born 1977) is a type designer and typography consultant based in New York City and a partner in the typefoundry Commercial Type with London-based designer Paul Barnes.

A graduate of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University, Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for a number of corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at The Font Bureau, Inc., working for a wide range of corporate and publication clients.

Schwartz set out on his own in 2001, first forming Orange Italic with product designer Dino Sanchez and recently Schwartzco Inc.. He has released fonts with Village, FontFont and with digital type pioneers Emigre. Schwartz also designed the widely-used Neutraface family, based on the work of modernist architect Richard Neutra, for release by House Industries, who reissued Orange Italic's infamous Luxury Collection in 2006. Schwartz has also released a number of typefaces through Font Bureau, including the popular Farnham, used in Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone, and Amplitude, which was first seen in the pages of Wallpaper*.

Many of Schwartz's typefaces have been proprietary designs for publications, including the US edition of Esquire, the New York Times, Roger Black's redesign of the Houston Chronicle, and the extensive Guardian Egyptian family, with Paul Barnes, for The Guardian's dramatic new look in 2005. Schwartz has also designed typefaces for corporations including Bosch and Deutsche Bahn, both with design luminary Erik Spiekermann, and reinsurance giant Munich Re, with Kai Bernau and Susana Carvalho at Atelier Carvalho Bernau. Since 2004, Schwartz and Barnes have collaborated on most of their projects, including typefaces for the Empire State Building and Condé Nast Portfolio, and they decided to formalize the partnership in 2007 with the formation of Commercial Type. The company publishes retail fonts developed by Schwartz and Barnes, their staff, and outside collaborators, and also represents the two when they work together on typedesign projects.

Schwartz was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot in 2007, given every four or five years to a designer under 35 who has made "an outstanding contribution to the field of type design" by the Association Typographique Internationale. As part of the team responsible for the redesign of The Guardian, Schwartz and Barnes were shortlisted for the Designer of the Year prize by the Design Museum in London. The pair were named two of the 40 most influential designers under 40 by Wallpaper* in 2006, and Schwartz was included in Time magazine's 2007 "Design 100". Also in 2007, Schwartz and Spiekermann received a gold medal from the German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung) for their Deutsche Bahn typeface system. Schwartz's typefaces have been honored by the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the New York Type Director's Club, and the International Society of Typographic Designers, and his work with Barnes has been honored by D&AD. Additionally, Schwartz has lectured extensively at conferences and to students throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

For more of Christian's work visit www.christianschwartz.com

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