Jonathan Hares
A 2000 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jonathan Hares (*1975) was part of a London based group of designers – including his classmate Laurent Benner as well as Alex Rich – who worked in varying collaborative forms. Under the tutelage of furniture designer Michael Marriott, one area of specialisation was exhibition design, and from this context emerged his LL Superstudio (2003), a small family of typewriter fonts.
Between 2005 and 2007, Laurent and Jonathan were responsible for the annual ‘Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ catalogues. In the late 2000s, Jonathan moved to Lausanne, and in 2010, he launched the Swiss Design Award’s website, essentially establishing an online archive for their various activities. For many years, he has been advising the Federal Council of the Arts in design matters and has art directed many of their catalogues and publications.
He won a gold medal at the Leipzig-based ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ in 2015 for Architecture from the Arab World 1914–2014. More recently, he has designed publications for the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal.
In close collaboration with Cornel Windlin and Jürg Lehni, Jon was responsible for the complete relaunch of the Lineto website (2015–2019) and has since been acting as Lineto’s de facto art director.
Jonathan Hares
A 2000 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jonathan Hares (*1975) was part of a London based group of designers – including his classmate Laurent Benner as well as Alex Rich – who worked in varying collaborative forms. Under the tutelage of furniture designer Michael Marriott, one area of specialisation was exhibition design, and from this context emerged his LL Superstudio (2003), a small family of typewriter fonts.
Between 2005 and 2007, Laurent and Jonathan were responsible for the annual ‘Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ catalogues. In the late 2000s, Jonathan moved to Lausanne, and in 2010, he launched the Swiss Design Award’s website, essentially establishing an online archive for their various activities. For many years, he has been advising the Federal Council of the Arts in design matters and has art directed many of their catalogues and publications.
He won a gold medal at the Leipzig-based ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ in 2015 for Architecture from the Arab World 1914–2014. More recently, he has designed publications for the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal.
In close collaboration with Cornel Windlin and Jürg Lehni, Jon was responsible for the complete relaunch of the Lineto website (2015–2019) and has since been acting as Lineto’s de facto art director.