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Commercial Type
A joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz - typographic collaborators since 2004 - Commercial Type is a foundry focused on promoting their collaborative works.
Winners of a D&AD Black Pencil for their work on Guardian Egyptian, Barnes and Schwartz were nominees for the Design Museum’s ‘Designer of the Year’ prize and were named two of the ‘40 Most Influential Designers Under 40’ in Wallpaper* in 2006.
Their small, but perfectly formed catalogue of typefaces is well worth exploring.

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