Noah Barrett

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Noah Barrett's illustration for If I Were Just A Little Taller by Ebony M. Anderson

Noah Barrett (born January 3, 1973) is an artist, designer, and illustrator, and has for over a decade produced art for children’s literature, comic books, as well as designs for major newspapers, book publishers and magazines.

On January 3, 1973, he was born in rural Connecticut. This time poised his generation the first wave of those plugged-in while the Net was still being built. Among those who entered the manual workforce while forging the new digital world we now inhabit.

This classically trained illustrator produces art unfettered by the constraints and labels of the modern art schema. His artistic style, more a creative need, was built from childhood experiences and was developing well before his schooling began. He associated with many veteran cartoonists and comic book artists who resided in his home state who recognized and nurtured his skills even though he was still quite young. He learned from an assisted many of them in their daily work and projects.

While attending Pair College of Art, Noah suffered a fall which left him with a spinal injury. This disrupted his work in comics and working associations with some of his colleagues. But Noah attributes this experience his new and unique view of life and leading to his greatest works, three children and his beloved wife.

Journeying away from the traditional path. He took his creative foil and thrust it headlong at the design world while providing commercial art and commissions. Working and living in Boston, Nantucket, and Florida while consulting coast to coast.

His artistic skills lead him to push the conventional. Noah rejected airs and quiet competitive edict of the modern design. His knowledge was freely shared with his peers and fellow employees this carried his influence off among the field.

His printed designs bent the rule of the print industry and the borders of the advertisement frame, his signature improvised italic impact font taglines were carried of by a wave of new slick designers. Ending up in movie titles and high end publications worldwide.

In a series of articles for NEGS he discusses the origins of and the endurance of the creative drive in our modern world. The article entitled “Primal” is quoted below.

“The human child has a built-in method for communication erected there long before the advent of our modern written language, possibly even older than spoken language. Yet we as a society have pushed this deep non-lingual emotionally driven system aside and forced in the characters of our individual languages.”

Noah has remained innovative for may years his ideas, teaching and consultation has quietly influenced art and media Working on projects behind the scenes he has rejected art-direction credits wishing to keep free of sociological labels.

Noah’s forthcoming series of children’s books deal with daring subjects and uncommon themes. Such as child abduction and over exposure horror movies. heralded by early critics as “A new standard for empowering children’s fiction”(Kidtaztic)

He continues to produce art and provide creative consultation to the industry. Noah has returned to live in to his Native Connecticut. His boundless imagination set to conjure more in the years ahead.