Wednesday 20 June 2012

Ed Fella



Born in 1938, Ed Fella is a highly influential graphic designer and artist whose work has made a huge impact on contemporary typography. A commercial artist in Detroit, Michigan for thirty years, Fella received an MFA in design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987.
Since achieving this, he has spent a lot of his time teaching at the California Institute of the Arts.
Fella’s work has been described as “highly personal yet enormously influential” using unusual typefaces and almost obsessive drawings to mark the obscure quality of legitimacy in his work.
The typography here is very artist and colourful. The look as thought they are created by computer base but perhaps templates and free hand was used for some of it.  The colour shows movement in each letter and it is all very decorative Apart from the collage of text above the rest of the work is quite hard to read what it says. They re all very abstract but aesthetically pleasing.

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