The Foundry
Based in New York and London, Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, most notably the award winning Guardian Egyptian. The company publishes retail fonts developed by Barnes and Schwartz, their staff, and outside collaborators, and also represents the two and their team when they work together on type design projects.
Following the redesign of The Guardian, the team headed by Mark Porter, including Barnes and Schwartz, was awarded the coveted Black Pencil by the D&AD. The team was also nominated for the Design Museum’s “Designer of the Year” prize. In September 2006, Barnes and Schwartz were named two of the 40 most influential designers under 40 in Wallpaper*.
Commercial Type is
- Paul Barnes, Partner
- Christian Schwartz, Partner
- Thomas Bouillet, Type designer
- Greg Gazdowicz, Type designer
- Kara Gordon, Type designer
- Miguel Reyes, Type designer
- Tim Ripper, Type designer
- Mark Record, Director of font technology
- Monica Shane, Director of licensing
- Emil Martirosian, Studio manager
Commercial Type has published typefaces by
- Daniel Grumer, Tel Aviv
- Yanek Iontef, Tel Aviv
- Khajag Apelian, Yerevan
- Erik van Blokland, The Hague
- Kai Bernau, The Hague
- Sandra Carrera, Geneva
- Susana Carvalho, The Hague
- Dave Foster, Sydney
- Panos Haratzopoulos, Athens
- Berton Hasebe, New York
- Dan Milne, Melbourne
- Ross Milne, Vancouver
- Waël Morcos, New York
- Sandrine Nugue, Paris
- Yury Ostromentsky, Moscow
- Ilya Ruderman, Moscow
- Hrvoje Živčić, Zagreb
Commercial Type has worked with
- Jack Curry, specimen design
- Bahman Eslami, Arabic font engineering
- Hannes Famira, type design
- Julius Hui, Chinese type design
- Abi Huynh, graphic design
- Son Kit, copywriter
- Tal Leming, font development
- Ben Kiel, type design
- Rachel Pidcock, tour manager
- Doug Wilson, writing
- GrayBits, web development
- Project Projects, web design
- Rumors, web design
- Triboro Design, graphic design
