Jarlath Hayes

Jarlath Fabian Hayes (born September 11, 1924 in Dublin ; died May 17, 2001 there ) was an Irish typographer and graphic designer .

Career

Irish 2 euro circulation coin (since 2002)

Jarlath Hayes grew up as the fourth of six children of an accountant in Dublin and attended Synge Street CBS , a school run by the Christian Brothers . In 1945 he began his career in the advertising industry . Hayes taught advertising design part-time at the Rathmines Technical Institute . In 1958 he co-founded the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design , in 1963 he founded Group 3 Design with two other designers . In 1967 he received the McConnell's Award for helping students. From 1970 Hayes worked as a freelance graphic artist, later with his daughter Susan. Until 1986 he worked as a book designer for numerous Irish publishers.

Jarlath Hayes lived and worked in Stillorgan , County Dublin (now Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown ). The main focus of his work was typography and book design . As a typographer, he worked intensively on striving for the "perfect" serif font . His Tuam Uncial was taken over by Letraset and known Irish television viewers through the series Glenroe , which was broadcast by RTÉ One for almost 18 years and whose credits were formatted in this font. In Ireland, the font is widely used in outdoor advertising.

Hayes' designs for stamps and coins became known to a wider public - including abroad. He designed the face of the Irish euro coins with the national symbol of the Celtic harp .

Hayes died at the age of 76. He left behind his wife, a son and four daughters.

Works (selection)

• Irish 32 and 52 pence commemorative stamps for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (1995);
• Face of the Irish euro coins (since 2002).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Master typographer and designer , The Irish Times , June 16, 2001, accessed December 4, 2018.
2. ^ Hugh Oram: The Little Book of Stillorgan . The History Press Ireland, Dublin 2017, ISBN 978-0-7509-8353-2 .