David Bowie’s Blackstar Art Released for Free to Fans

Jonathan Barnbrook is the graphic designer who designed several of David Bowie‘s album covers, including this year’s Blackstar. Today, Barnbrook—the eponymous London design agency he founded—released the design elements for Blackstar under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so that they can be used by fans for non-commercial purposes. You can download them here.

Barnbrook also shared a note about the release:

Barnbrook loved working with David Bowie, he was simply one of the most inspirational, kind people we have met. So in the spirit of openness and in remembrance of David we are releasing the artwork elements of his last album ★ (Blackstar) to download here free under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence. That means you can make t-shirts for yourself, use them for tattoos, put them up in your house to remember David by and adapt them too, but we would ask that you do not in any way create or sell commercial products with them or based on them. Any questions or commercial licence usage please contact us.

Previously, Barnbrook explained the meaning behind Blackstar‘s cover. “This was a man who was facing his own mortality, and I hope the design is appropriate to that,” he said.

Read our “Afterword” feature on Bowie, plus tributes from Nile Rodgers, Bradford Cox, Carlos Dengler, Thurston Moore, Carlos Alomar, and Jonathan Lethem.

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