Tony Brook
2017 Design International
Tony and his partner Patricia Finegan established the multidisciplinary design studio Spin in 1992. Named after Tony’s obsession with cricket, Spin has received international recognition for its work in identity, print, motion graphics and digital design.
In 2009 he set up the publishing company Unit Editions in partnership with the designer/writer Adrian Shaughnessy, with the ambition of making books by designers for designers.
Unit Editions has published books on Herb Lubalin, FHK Henrion, contemporary typographic practice, and identity manuals.
An avid collector of graphic design, in 2011 Tony curated a major retrospective of the work of the Dutch master Wim Crouwel at the Design Museum in London.
Tony was admitted to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2006, and spent five years as president of the UK chapter of AGI.
