Phil Baines is a British typographer currently working in England. Phil began not as a designer but as a catholic priest at Urshaw College in Durham. After his time studying there Phil turned to graphic design. He graduated from St. Martin's School of Art in 1985 and two years later from the Royal College of Art in London.
Since completing his studies Phil has been a freelance graphic designer doing everything from print work for small publishers and art organizations to type sequences for TV commercials. Phil's work is characterized by very technical detail having a definite engineering feel throughout. He has completed editorial designs for clients such as Goethe-Institut, London, Matt's Gallery and Phaidon Press. He also teaches typography on the BA Honors graphic design course at the same school he graduated from.
More recently in the late 90s, he has been assisted by several ex students to take on larger commissioned projects otherwise impossible on his own.
One of his better known projects is the design of a type face called You Can Read Me for Fuse, a design magazine by Neville Brody. Phil is also the author of two books Ð Type & Typography with Andrew Haslam and Signs: Lettering in the Environment with Catherine Dixon.
Sources: myfonts.com & Identifont
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