Neville Brody is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and first made his way into the public eye through his record cover designs and his involvement in the British independent music scene in the early 1980s. As the Art Director of Fetish he began experimenting with the beginnings of a new visual language that consisted of a mixture of visual and architectural elements. Later he was able to put these ideas into practice and to set new precedents through the innovative styling of The Face magazine (1981-1986). It was his work on magazines that firmly established his reputation as one of the world’s leading graphic designers. In particular, his artistic contribution to The Face completely revolutionised the way in which designers and readers approach the medium. Though Brody rejected all commercialisation of his graphic style, his unique designs soon became much-imitated models for magazines, advertising and consumer-oriented graphics of the eighties. Brody also won much public acclaim through his highly innovative ideas on incorporating and combining typefaces into design.
Read more about this significant designer at: https://www.fontfont.com/designers/neville-brody
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I really like the oceans 12 movie poster a lot of contrast and he uses red to stand out on the page. Inspirational for our movie poster project.
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I like how his tutors called his work “Uncommercial” and then Brody showed them up when his career started sparking. Thanks to punk rock becoming popular at the time, he was able to jumpstart his career. look at him now and he accomplished so much working with the magazine industry, and still making amazing designs.
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Never knew he designed the Ocean’s 12 poster. It’s a really nice design and I like the layout. Will help on movie poster inspiration.
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I enjoy Neville Brody’s work. He seems to favor boldness in his designs, both in color and shape. The giraffe piece kinda strays from the bold effect, and I find that interesting. When I was reading Neville’s bio, it mentioned in there how at one point he moved away from using decorative typeface and adopted more minimalist design. I’ve found that artists across the board tend to do this from time to time. An artist will develop a style and create a body of work with similar attributes and then they will start experimenting with new techniques or mediums and adopt a new look for their work. When this happens it makes me question what “style”actually is. If one artist or designer can have multiple different looks for their work, how can we recognize an over all style that embodies all the work they’ve ever done. Van Gogh did this too, among other artists, i remember I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art looking at their collection of Van Goghs and I remember thinking, had they not labeled some of the paintings as Van Goghs I wouldn’t have known it was he who painted them. i don’t have an answer for how we can tell what defines an overall style of an artist, or if that’s even a plausible notion. Personally I think it’s possible artists and designers can have multiple styles they call their own.
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