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The signed hardback book "Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible" features bold, layered text and abstract design elements by Jonathan Barnbrook on a red and beige cover, set against a blue background.

The signed hardback "Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible" is shown open on a blue background, displaying bold white and red text, geometric graphics, technical diagrams, and “bastard” in large gothic letters.

An open Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible (signed hardback book) rests on a blue surface, showing a diagram with labeled circles left and an alphabet chart over a faint figure right, connected by thin lines.

A signed hardback copy of Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible rests open on a blue surface, showing a red left page with a stylized hand and dotted lines, and a right page with Barnbrook’s geometric designs, barcode text, and label motifs.

A signed hardback of Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible is open against a blue backdrop, revealing bold red and white graphic typography reading “Nylon Designed for Manic Depressives” and “Draylon, A Much Less Manic Font.”

Jonathan Barnbrook – The Barnbrook Bible (signed hardback book)

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A definitive, signed survey of Jonathan Barnbrook’s radical design practice, tracing how politics, typography, music, and dissent collide in one of contemporary graphic design’s most uncompromising bodies of work.

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First published in 2007, “The Barnbrook Bible” remains the most complete and authoritative survey of Jonathan Barnbrook’s studio practice. Released to coincide with the major retrospective “Friendly Fire” at the Design Museum, London, the book documents a body of work that reshaped the relationship between graphic design, politics, music, and cultural critique.

Written primarily by Barnbrook himself, the book is structured as a fast-moving visual and textual manifesto. Projects are presented alongside explanation, historical context, and ideological intent, creating a reading experience that is both immersive and confrontational.

Typography, identity systems, album artwork, political campaigns, and institutional critiques sit side by side, revealing design as an active cultural force rather than a neutral service.

The volume also includes essays by influential voices such as Kalle Lasn of Adbusters and design historian Teal Triggs, situating Barnbrook’s work within broader debates around power, ethics, and authorship in visual culture.

Uniquely, it features a text written by David Bowie in connection with his album “Heathen,” underscoring the depth of Barnbrook’s creative collaborations beyond the design world.

This signed hardback edition stands as both an archive and a provocation — a landmark document of graphic design as resistance, inquiry, and authorship.

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