Stephen Fairbairn

Detailed information on Margrét Jóelsdóttir and Stephen Fairbairn is to be found on their website www.margretandsteve.com. Pictures of much of their work can be seen there in the Gallery section.

Stephen has worked as a graphic designer since 1970 at Himinn&haf (formerly AUK), a Reykjavík advertising agency. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the field of applied art and package design and received a number of awards for package design. In 1998 he was the winner of a prize competition for the design of a co-ordinated milk-packaging programme for the whole of Iceland. He worked for a time in an advisory capacity for Agfa Compugraphic in the designing of the special Icelandic characters for many of the Agfa type fonts. Stephen is also co-designer with Mrs. Kristín Thorkelsdóttir of the current series of Icelandic banknotes which was launched with a currency change in 1981 and been added to several times since then.