Heavy Meta
Barbara Glauber
About
Studio Size
Small (1-5)
Year founded
1990
Borough
Manhattan
Studio Bio/Philosophy
Heavy Meta is a design studio founded in 1990 by Barbara Glauber. The studio focuses on projects for cultural institutions, collaborating with artists, curators, and editors to create monographs, interdisciplinary exhibitions, information graphics, and identities. Barbara has an MFA from CalArts and teaches design at Yale and Cooper Union.
Elsewhere
The Team
Heavy Meta has 1 person. Of those, 1 is a studio head.
60% of studios are small-sized (1-5 people).
Average height
5’4”-5’6”
Number of freelancers/year
1-5
1-5 are long-term freelancers
Studio Disciplines
Breakdown of Work
Strategy/Execution
4% Strategy
96% Execution
Primary Specialties
- Books (52)
- Branding & Identity (77)
- Editorial/Publication Design (51)
- Exhibition Design (33)
- Information Graphics (41)
- Print (75)
Clients’ Industries
- Advertising (22)
- Education (40)
- Local & community organizations (41)
- Restaurants & Food (29)
- The Arts/Cultural Institutions (71)
Heavy Meta’s Clients
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Bard Graduate Center
- DelMonico Books • Prestel Publishing (2)
- Gagosian Gallery
- Guggenheim Museum (4)
- Johnson & Johnson (4)
- Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
- Neuberger Museum of Art (2)
- Purchase College
- Stanford University
- Tang Museum (3)
- The Smoking Gun
- They Might Be Giants (2)
- Whitney Museum
- Williams College Museum of Art
Barbara Glauber, Principal
Demographics
Female, from Buffalo, New York, United States, now lives in NoHo, New York, New York. Formal education is graduate degree, primary design education is school (CalArts).
What’s been the biggest influence on your design career?
My career has been -- and continues to be -- profoundly shaped by the faculty and students of CalArts, Yale, and Cooper Union, those who taught me, teach with me, and have been taught by me.
Previous Design Employment
- Two Twelve
Teaching Design
- Yale University — 17 years
- Cooper Union — 12 years
Board Member on Professional Design Organizations
- AIGA — 14 years
Location
The Space
Type of chair
Vitra T-Chair
Decorations
Books and bookshelves, Our work, Process materials for ongoing projects
Favorite Typefaces:
- Antique Olive
- Balance
- Bau (2)
- Beton
- Brauer
- Cooper Black
- Gill Kayo
- Knockout (10)
- Ludwig
- Maple
- Mercury Text
- Neutraface 2 (2)
- URW Typewriter (2)
- Verlag (2)
- Vitesse (2)