Neville Brody

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

Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Communication and is known for his work on The Face magazine (1981–1986) and Arena magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Nine Inch Nails.

He was one of the founding members of FontFont (now FontShop) in London and designed a number of notable typefaces for them. He was also partly responsible for instigating the FUSE project an influential fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design. Each pack includes a publication with articles relating to typography and surrounding subjects, four brand new fonts that are unique and revolutionary in some shape or form and four posters designed by the type designer usually using little more than their included font.

He now continues to work as a graphic designer with his own design practise called Research Studios which in addition to London has studios in Paris and Berlin. The studios work on a wide range of projects including packaging for Kenzo Perfumes, to creating branding for companies such as Macromedia and HomeChoice.

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[edit] Early Life And Education

Neville Brody was born in Southgate,London on April 23, 1957. At school, Brody studies A-Level Art, very much from a fine art veiwpoint. In 1975 Brody went to on to be a Fine Art foundation course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowed for its late sixties agitation, now safely amalgamated into Middlesex University.

In autum 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. course in graphics at the London College of Printing. His tutors often condemned his work as "Uncommercial", often putting a heavy emphasis on safe and tested economic stratergies, as opposed to experimentation.

By 1977 punk rock was beginning to have a major effect upon London life and, this had a great impact upon Brody's work and motivation, this was not well received by his tutors. At one point he was almost thrown out of the college for putting the Queen's head sideways on a postage stamp design. He did, however, get the chance to design posters for studient converts at the lecp, most notably for Pere Ubu, supported by The Human League.

In spite of the postage stamp episode, Brody was not only motivated by the energies of punk. His first-year thesis had been based around a comparison between Dadaism and Pop Art.

[edit] Work

[edit] Music

[edit] Fetish Records

Art Director (1980)

[edit] Cabaret Voltaire

  • Numerous T-shirt, badge and poster designs.
  • "3 Crepsule Tracks" Album Cover (1981)
  • "Red Mecca" Album Cover (1981)
  • "Crackdown/Just Fasination" 12" Album Cover (1983)
  • "Just Fasination" 7" Album Cover (1983)
  • "James Brown" 12" Album Cover (1984)
  • "Microphonies" Album Cover (1984)
  • "The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord" Album Cover (1985)
  • "Code" Album Cover (1987)

[edit] Other

  • Defunkt, "The Razor's Edge" Album Cover (1982)
  • Depeche Mode, "Just Can't Get Enough" Album Cover (1982)
  • Level 42, "Standing in the Light" Album Cover (1983)
  • Level 42, "Microkid" Album Cover (1983)
  • Elephant Talk,Album Cover (1983)
  • Zuice, "Everyone A Winner" Album Cover (1986)
  • Zuice, "I'm Burning" Album Cover (1987)
  • Zuice, "Bless Your Lucky Stars" Album Cover (1987)

[edit] Magazine Work

  • 1981 – 1986 Art director for the Face magazine
  • 1987 – 1990 Designed for Arena Magazine.

[edit] Misc

  • 1990 – Opened FontWorks and became the director of FontShop International
  • 1994 Founds Research Studios
  • Pioneered work using Apple computers in type design
  • A number of influential record cover designs and magazine designs

[edit] Accomplishments

  • Design for Tribeca Issey Miyake in New York with Frank Gehry
  • Major contributor to FUSE, an influential publication on experimental typography
  • Had a book written about his designs – The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jon Wozencroft, the world’s best-selling graphic design book.
  • London’s Victoria & Albert Museum hosted an exhibition of Brody’s work, a huge honor

[edit] Fonts by Brody

Brody has designed some groundbreaking fonts, including:

  • FF Autotrace
  • FF Blur
  • FF Dirty Faces 1
  • FF Dirty Faces 2
  • FF Dirty Faces 3
  • FF Dome
  • FF Gothic
  • FF Harlem
  • FF Meta Subnormal
  • FF Pop
  • FF Tokyo
  • FF Typeface 4
  • FF Typeface 6 & 7
  • FF World
  • Linotype Arcadia
  • Linotype Industria
  • Linotype Insignia

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