Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966) is a British graphic designer , film maker and typographer. Over the years he has created many typefaces, all of which are shown below.
He designed the cover artwork for David Bowie's 2002 album 'Heathen' where he used his Priori typeface for the first type. He also designed 'The Next Day' and 'Reality', which are also album covers of David Bowie's.
This album cover features the font Priori. It is a very square based font with mainly straight lines that go only vertically or horizontally. This gives a robotic feel. For this cover he has placed the text upside down and kerned the letters wide apart. This may be so that the text takes up more of the width of the cover without covering any of the face on the picture. I think he has found the right balance for the letter spacing because if the letters were kerned any more it would make it difficult to read, which is a common problem when kerning too much.
This is another album cover by Barnbrook. It features a serif font that has finishing strokes on the arms, stems, and tails of the characters. This may be to match the image which shows a suit, both suggest formal and sophisticated. However on the smaller font used for 'DAVID BOWIE' in the top right corner, the letters 'v' and 'o' have less weight and aren't serifed. The letter 'w' then has even less weight and also isn't serifed. I don't know if the letters 'v', 'o' and 'w' symbolise or represent something or maybe the 'w' isn't serifed because it may come across as two v's stuck together. Another possible reason is so that the hairline of the letter 'A' does not look out of place. The font is all in upper case. I think this is because it means there is no ascending or descending height and they are all level.
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