Who is Neville Brody?
Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer, and art director. His work is today highly recognized worldwide.
He is mainly recognized for his record cover designs in the British independent music scene in the early 1980s.
As the Art Director of Fetish Records, he began experimenting with a new visual language that consisted of a mixture of visual and architectural elements.
Later, he puts these ideas into practice and sets new precedents through the innovative styling of The Face Magazine.
Brody’s artistic contribution to The Face revolutionizes how designers and readers approach the medium.
By designing his typefaces, in fact, he opens the way for the advent of digital type design.
Work and Practice
Work and PracticeIn 1990 he found the FontFont typeface library together with Erik Spiekermann.
With FUSE, an interactive magazine and collection of experimental typefaces and posters, he challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design.
Today, Neville Brody’s work focuses mainly on electronic communications design, and because of his unique and striking digital typefaces, his contributions to the world of graphic design and digital typography are invaluable.
As often referred to as a “star typographer”, Brody has designed several very well-known typefaces. Mostly, unique fonts include the updated font for the Times newspaper, Times Modern, New Deal as used in publicity material, and titles for the film Public Enemies and Industria.
Discover more about his current works here.