Jody Barton

Jody Barton (b. 1972) is an English graphic artist. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and has worked with visual communications for more than 20 years. Barton's work stacks basic and combative images with modernist koans to create funny and affecting works that manage to be both oddly humorous and pessimistic. He often uses typography and images combined in a dark humorous style, where wordplay and comical drawings are intertwined. His style is graphic and illustrative and often contains a subtle political comment on contemporary social and cultural phenomena. His work includes newspaper illustrations for the Guardian, New York Times and Zeit as well as illustrative designs for books, posters, clothes and accessories.

Barton lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.