Neville Brody
Neville Brody (born April 23, 1957 in London ) is a British graphic designer , typographer and art director .
Life
Brody studied at the London College of Printing from 1976 to 1979 . He then designed numerous record covers for independent alternative labels such as Stiff Records , Fetish Records and the experimental group Cabaret Voltaire . From 1981 to 1986 Brody took over the art direction of the youth and fashion magazine The Face , where he developed new concepts, e.g. B. introduced bold typographic solutions. In 1986 Brody worked for the Labor Party's New Socialist monthly newspaper and took a political stance. From 1987 to 1990 he designed for the English magazine Arena . In 1988, Neville Brody's work was published in the book The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jon Wozencroft . With a total of 120,000 copies sold, this work is the best-selling graphic design book. From 1988 he worked on the corporate identity of Nike , Premiere , ORF and the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
In 1990, Neville Brody founded the independent foundry for digital fonts FSI FontShop International in Berlin together with Joan Spiekermann and Erik Spiekermann . He developed the fonts 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), FF Tyson (1993), FF World (1993), FF Dirty 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7 (1994) and FF Meta Subnormal (1995) .
In 1994 Neville Brody founded Research Studios in London with his business partner Fwa Richards , in that year Jon Wozencroft published The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, Vol. 2 , which is also available in German ( Die Grafiksprache des Neville Brody, Vol. 2 ). In 2001 a branch of Research Studios followed in Paris and in 2002 in Berlin, another one in New York is planned.
A sister of Research Studios is called Research Publishing and is responsible for experimental multimedia productions. Research Publishing in turn deals intensively with Fuse , a forum for experimental typography and communication.
Between 1990 and 2000, Neville Brody published 18 issues of the experimental typography magazine FUSE together with FSI and initiated conferences of the same name. The annual European design conference TYPO Berlin developed from these .
classification
Neville Brody is considered a radical innovator in typography. He was one of the first to use the computer, which he had initially refused to accept, as a design tool. Among other things, he achieved his fame by deliberately breaking all the rules of typography to the point of illegibility.
literature
- J. Wozencroft: The Graphic Language of Neville Brody . London 1988, ISBN 0-7893-0653-0 .
- J. Wozencroft: The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, Vol. 2 . London / Munich 1994, ISBN 0-7893-0073-7 .
- Neville Brody, Lewis Blackwell: G1: New Dimensions in Graphic Design . ISBN 0-8478-2002-5 .
- Matthias Matussek : A guerrilla is becoming a classic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1988 ( online - layout designed by Neville Brody; see PDF illustration).
Web links
- Literature by and about Neville Brody in the catalog of the German National Library
- Neville Brodys Research Studios with his work
- Neville Brody: Where's the beef? Video podcast of a lecture at TYPO 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://fontfeed.com/archives/20-years-fontshop-an-interview-with-joanspiekermann/ Interview with Joan Spiekermann 20 years of Fontshop, as of April 2, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brody, Neville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British graphic designer, typographer and art director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |