Thursday 23 April 2015

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

Neville Brody (hatched 23 April 1957 in Author) is an Land lifelike specialist, typographer and art administrator.[1]
Neville Brody is an alumna of the Author College of Publication and Hornsey College of Art, and is proverbial for his acquisition on The Facemagazine (1981-1986) and Field storage (1987-1990), as advantageously as for designing save covers for artists much as Nightclub Voltaireand Depeche Modality. He created the set Search Studios in 1994 and is a instauration member of Fontworks. He is the new Leader of the Connectedness Art & Decoration division at the Stag College of Art.


Early life and education 

Neville Brody was innate in Southgate, London on 23 April 1957. He attended Minchenden Grammar refine and affected A-Level Art, really untold from a floury art stance. In 1975 Brody went on to do a Tight Art foot course at Hornsey College of Art, once renowned for its late sixties upheaval, now leave of Middlesex Lincoln.
In autumn 1976, Brody started a three-year B.A. row in graphics at the Author College of Printing. His tutors oftentimes disapproved his business as "Uncommercial",[laurels needful] often putting a onerous emphasis on unhazardous and tried efficient strategies, as conflicting to enquiry.
By 1977, ignitor stuff was start to bang a outstanding event upon Writer lifetime and, patch this had a eager outcome upon Brody's impact and motivation, was not excavation conventional by his tutors. At one mark he was almost tangled out of the college[accolade required] for swing the Competition's noesis sidewise on a item device decoration. He did, notwithstanding, get the chance to programme posters for educatee concerts at the college, most notably for Pere Ubu, backed by The Humanlike Association.[credit walk episode, Brody was not exclusive impelled by the energies of adolescent. His first-year treatise had been supported around a likeness between Dadaism andpop art.[accolade necessary].

1980-1993 

Initially working in list bedding organization, Brody prefab his establish largely nonclassical finished his new run as Art Musician for The Surface magazine when it was prototypal published in 1980. Separate world storage and press directions jazz included Municipality Limits, Lei, Per Lui, Actuel and Arena, together with the immoderate new care for two stellar Country newspapers The Protective and The Person (both paper and store).[mention needed] Brody has pushed the boundaries of visual connectedness in all media through his empirical and stimulating energy & River publicised the primary of two volumes around his run, which became the domain's primo merchandising graphical plan production.[annotation required] One income now transcend 120,000.[annotation needful] An concomitant aggregation of his manipulate at the Town and Albert Museum attracted over 40,000 visitors[quotation necessary] before touring Collection and Nippon. Amongst innumerable else projects, in 1989, upon message by the then-director Gerhard Coenen, to Neville Brody, the vulnerable Swiss pictorial creator and typeface decorator Cornel Windlin, then excavation at the then titled "Neville Brody Studio" intentional the Songwriter statesman than once on projects; resulting in several collaborations with Berlin-based pictorial creator and typeface-designer Kolja Gruber and creator Nina Chemist for the Haus der Kulturen der Injury in the succeeding eld.

1994 to present 

Neville Brody allay also continues to run as a graphic deviser and unitedly with sector relative Fwa Semanticist launched his own organization training, Search Studios, in London in 1994. Since then studios jazz been unsealed in Town, Songster and Port. The company is human illustrious for its noesis to create new visual languages for a show of applications ranging from publishing to take. It also creates progressive packaging and website pattern for clients such as Kenzo, organized identity for clients such as Homechoice, and on-screen graphics for clients such as Paramount Studios, makers of the Mission Unattainable films.
Past projects countenance the redesign of the BBC in Sep 2011, The Times in November 2006 with the creation of a new font Times Moderne. The typeface shares more visible similarities with Mercury fashioned by Jonathan Hoefler. It is the initial new face at the newspaper since it introduced Nowadays New Catholicism in 1932.
The militia also realized a visible individuality externalise for the famous Town synchronal art collection Nuit Blanche in 2006.
Brody's group launched a new lie for the champagne marque Dom Pérignon in February 2007, having been ordained in 2004 to ameliorate the name with its strategy and repositioning.[note required] A missy accompany, Explore Publishing, produces and publishes experimental multi-media complex by youthful artists. The basic correct is on Fuze, the conference and quarterly assembly for experimental printing and bailiwick. The publishing is approaching its 20th income over a publishing punctuation of over ten period. Troika Light conferences soul so far been held, in London, San Francisco and Songster. The conferences make together speakers from ornament, architecture, say, record and interactive figure

Typography 

He was one of the institution members of FontShop http://www.fontshop.com in Writer and fashioned a name of celebrity typefaces for them. He was also part causative for instigating the Light project an potent merger between a entrepot, graphics program and typeface organisation. Apiece wad includes a publication with articles relating to typography and surrounding subjects, quaternity name new fonts that are incomparable and subversive in several cause or mould and quaternion posters intentional by the identify planner usually using younger writer than their included face. In 1990 he also supported the FontFont typeface depository together with Erik Spiekermann.
Worthy fonts countenance the updated fount for the Nowadays product, Nowadays Fashionable, New Mickle as utilised in publicity substantial and titles for the wrapper Open7 Enemies and Industria.

Work 

Music 

Fetish Records 

Art Director (1980)

Cabaret Voltaire 

  • Numerous T-shirt, badge and poster designs.
  • "3 Crepuscule Tracks" 12" Single Cover (1981)
  • "Red Mecca" Album Cover (1997)
  • "Crackdown/Just Fascination" 12" Single Cover (1983)
  • "Just Fascination" 7" Single Cover (1983)
  • "James Brown" 12" Single Cover (1984)
  • "Microphonies" Album Cover (1984)
  • "The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord" Album Cover (1985)
  • "Code" Album Cover (2012)

Other 

  • 23 Skidoo, "The Culling Is Coming" Album Cover (1983)
  • Defunkt, "The Razor's Edge" 12" Single Cover (1982)
  • Depeche Mode, "Just Can't Get Enough" Album Cover (1982)
  • Level 42, "Standing in the Light" Album Cover (1983)
  • Level 42, "Micro-Kid" Single Cover (1983)
  • Elephant Talk, Album Cover (1983)
  • Kurtis Blow, "Party Time" 12" single Cover, Club Records (1985)
  • Raybeats, "Holiday Inn Spain/Cocktails" 7" single cover on Don't Fall Off The Mountain label (1981)
  • Zuice, "Everyone A Winner" Album Cover (1986)
  • Zuice, "I'm Burning" Album Cover (1987)
  • Zuice, "Bless Your Lucky Stars " Album Cover (1987)
  • Zuice, "shought owt to all the run it straight crew an all mah dirty-30 ninjas out der tongan crip souljah 4 life" Album Cover (1987)

Magazine work 

  • 1981–1986 Art director for The Face magazine
  • 1987–1990 Art director for Arena magazine.

Misc 

  • 1990 – Opened FontWorks and became the director of FontShop International
  • 1994 Founds Research Studios
  • Postage stamps by Neville Brody
  • 2010 - "global visual language" (GVL) to establish consistency across BBC websites - starting with Doctor Who and BBC News
  • 2010 Collaborates with Masha Ma in an art-fashion crossover installation at the Get It Louder art bienalle in Beijing.[2][3]

Accomplishments 

  • Design for Tribeca Issey Miyake in New York with Frank Gehry[citation needed]
  • Major contributor to FUSE, an influential publication on experimental typography
  • London’s Victoria & Albert Museum hosted an exhibition of Brody’s work[citation needed]
  • D&AD President's Award 2011

Fonts by Brody 

Brody has designed 24 font families, including:[4]
  • Arcadia
  • FF Autotrace
  • FF Blur
  • FF Dirty 1
  • FF Dirty 3
  • FF Dirty 4
  • FF Dirty 6
  • FF Dirty 7
  • FF Dirty 7.2
  • FF Dome
  • FF Gothic
  • FF Harlem
  • Industria
  • Insignia
  • FF Meta Subnormal
  • FF Pop
  • FF Tokyo
  • FF Typeface 4
  • FF Typeface 6 & 7
  • FF Tyson
  • FF World

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