Ed Fella
Edward Fella is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. Ed learned about commercial art whilst being a student at Cass Technical High School. He then received his Master of Fine Arts in design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which he started when he was 46 years old. Ed then quit his commercial art job to create his own art. He now teaches at the California Institute for the Arts.
Ed Fella was known to break every rule in typography and design. He had a style that was unique to him at the time it was slightly based on the theory of deconstruction, but he took that and pushed it even further. He distorted a style of sanserif with his own hand writing with various thicknesses, curves, and tails to each character so that each one is different from the one before. Ed is one of the most extreme examples of a typographer who is able to achieve the same creative freedom as the painters and sculptors he promoted in catalogues and posters.
An example of someone he influenced is Jeffery Keedy, he made a typeface called keedysans and as similarity's to Fella's style with inconsistent spacing and the characters were rounded and sometimes sliced. Also Barry Deck made a gothic template which was influenced by Fella.
Ed Fella was known to break every rule in typography and design. He had a style that was unique to him at the time it was slightly based on the theory of deconstruction, but he took that and pushed it even further. He distorted a style of sanserif with his own hand writing with various thicknesses, curves, and tails to each character so that each one is different from the one before. Ed is one of the most extreme examples of a typographer who is able to achieve the same creative freedom as the painters and sculptors he promoted in catalogues and posters.
An example of someone he influenced is Jeffery Keedy, he made a typeface called keedysans and as similarity's to Fella's style with inconsistent spacing and the characters were rounded and sometimes sliced. Also Barry Deck made a gothic template which was influenced by Fella.
Ed Fella uses a Polaroid camera to take these images, this is why the colour and texture of the images have a vintage look to them. Once Ed takes the images he selects the part that he wants to use and puts it into a square, he then creates a collage of usually nine squares of different images.
Personally, I like Ed Fella's work because of the vivid colours he uses that catch your eye. I also really like the vintage look of the images from the Polaroid camera. The only thing that I don't like about Fella's work is that the images sometimes look the same because of the square collage style and the vintage look, if he Ed used a different style of filter for the images, for example a brighter font or possibly a negative filter then maybe it would change the work and make it seem like it isn't a lot like the other images he has done.