Neville Brody

Neville Brody ( born April 23, 1957 in London ) is a British graphic designer, typographer and art director.

Life

Brody studied from 1976 to 1979 at the London College of Printing. After that, he designed numerous album covers for free alternative labels such as Stiff Records, Fetish Records, and the experimental group Cabaret Voltaire. From 1981 to 1986 Brody took over as artistic director of the youth and fashion magazine The Face, where he introduced new concepts, such as bold typographic solutions. 1986 Brody worked for the monthly newspaper of the Labour Party New Socialist and moved so politically position. 1987 to 1990 he designed arena for the English magazine. In 1988 the work of Neville Brody in the book The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jon Wozencroft was published. This work is the best-selling graphic design book with a total of 120,000 copies sold. From 1988 he worked at the appearances of Nike, Premiere, ORF and the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

In 1990, Neville Brody, together with Joan Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann in Berlin the independent foundry for digital fonts FSI FontShop International. He developed the writings of Arcadia ( 1990), Industria (1990 ), Insignia (1990 ), FF Blur ( 1991), FF Pop ( 1991), FF Gothic ( 1991), FF Harlem (1991 ), FF Typeface 4.6 & 7 (1991), FF dome (1993), FF Tokyo (1993), Tyson FF (1993), World FF (1993), FF Dirty 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 (1994) and meta Subnormal FF (1995).

In 1994, Neville Brody and his business partner Fwa Richards Research Studios in London, released earlier this year Jon Wozencroft The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, Vol 2, which is also available in German ( The graphic language of Neville Brody, Vol 2). Followed in 2001 by a subsidiary of Research Studios in Paris and in Berlin in 2002, another in New York is planned.

A sister of Research Studios Research Publishing is, and is responsible for experimental multimedia productions. Research Publishing in turn is intensively with Fuse, a forum for experimental typography and communications.

Between 1990 and 2000, Neville Brody published together with FSI 18 issues of experimental typography magazine Fuse and initiated conferences same. From these, the annual European design conference TYPO Berlin developed.

Classification

Neville Brody is considered a radical innovator of typography. As one of the first he used the computer to which he had at first refused, as a design tool. He became famous among other things, that he deliberately broke all the rules of typography to illegibility.