WELCOME!!

Dear Visitor,

Welcome to my blog named Noteworthy. Its a blog about a famous graphic designer named Neville Brody. The blog is a part of my foundation year for semester 2.

About me!

Sylvia Lontou

sylvialondou@hotmail.com

s.lontou@edu.salford.ac.uk

Why i chose Neville Brody????

When we were asked to form a presentation on my module(Critical&Contextual studies) the figure of Neville Brody appealed to me for two reasons; his personality and two for his inspirational and eccentric mood on his works of art. I find his work amazing and from now on he is one of my favorite designers amongst other. Making and dedicating this blog on Neville Brody gave me the feeling of excitement and the opportunity as well to discover and explore into a deeper level new things in the field of Graphic Designer. My wish is to create things and produce at the same level that Neville Brody does and consider my self as a new-born graphic designer!

His work!

A design from Neville Brody for Macromedia for the new Adobe Creative Suites.

Neville for Fuse magazine.

                                                         Calendar.

Neville Brody talked about “The Blank Sheet Project” in an interview with Tim O’ Kennedy

He said: “The Blank Sheet Paper Project is the platform for inspirational creative excellence. Recognised leaders share their proccess to approaching a blank sheet paper”. Neville Brody is one of them. “ The opportunity to have a blank piece of paper it’s one of the highest challenges because it forces us to be original or to be judged. In the other hand, if it was not for that, we will all be living in our private spaces. For me the more blank sheets can get my hands on, the better”.

chapter 1-inspiration

chapter 2- challenges

chapter 3- leaving your mark

chapter 4 - future

About Neville Brody

 Neville Brody was born in 23 of April 1957 in London, England. He grew up in Southgate, a suburb of North London. In 1975 he studied painting at the Hornsey School of Art and at the London College of Printing (LCP) in 1976-79 where he is now a visiting Professor.

Following his time at LCP, Brody joined Rocking Russian, creating a number of record covers and that was when he first appeared into the public eye through his record cover designs and at the British independent music scene; before joining Stiff Records in 1980. At Stiff Records, Brody continued to push visual boundaries and break new creative ground. Recognition for this work at Stiff led to him becoming art director at Fetish Records, an independent label, where he produced some of his most notable projects and iconic work (in particular a body of work for Cabaret Voltaire and industrial post-punk band 23 Skidoo).

Neville Brody is perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation. 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. Later on he took this a step further and began designing his own typefaces, thus opening the way for the advent of digital type design. His pioneering spirit in the area of typography manifests itself today in such projects as FUSE, a regularly published collection of experimental typefaces and posters which challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design.

Neville is a Graphic designer, art director, type designer, brand strategist. In 1981-1986 he turned to be the Art director of the English magazine “The Face”.Working there until 1986, when he moved to men’s style and lifestyle bible, Arena. In 1983-1987 he designed the London Program magazine “City Limits”.

While working for Arena in 1987-1990 he embarked on a completely opposite course, using minimalist, non-decorative typography for a time before returning to his expressive visual style which he now began propagating with the aid of computers. In 1987 he founded The Studio in London, and his unusual computer-generated designs received a great deal of recognition, especially abroad. His work has been commissioned by such major organisations as Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Greenpeace, Japanese companies Men’s Bigi and Parco, the Dutch Postal Service, the German cable channel Premiere and Austria’s ORF TV channel. Today, Neville Brody’s work focuses largely on electronic communications design. His contributions to the world of graphic design and digital typography are absolutely invaluable. Often referred to as a “star typographer”.

The Architectural review magazine wrote about Neville Brody that a new spirit a new wave and a new romantism is being created from Brody and because of him there is a new style in Graphics.  The magazine was published in August 1986.

In April 1988 the V&A Museum (London) held an exhibition of his work to accompany his first monograph, The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, which became the world’s best selling graphic design book. The exhibition toured extensively in Europe and Japan. 

Book Exhibitions

     “The Graphic language of Neville Brody” (1988-90) written by Jon Wozencroft. They took place in:

•        London

•       Edinburgh

•       Berlin

•       Hamburg

•       Frankfurt am Main

•        Tokyo

J. Wozencroft “ The Graphic Language No.2”, London, Munich 1994. It refers to the fonts he made and where he had worked and the designs that he made

•       In his book “The Graphic Language of Neville Brody” writes “I felt that the Fine Art world had become elitist and would appeal only to a specific gallery market; so I thought Graphics would offer better possibilities”.

Research Studios

Neville Brody Studio was renamed Research Studios in 1994, coinciding
with the publication of his second book by Thames and Hudson. He is partner in each
of their operations, his insight, methodology and appetite for excellence inform every aspect of their work. Today, in addition to lecturing and contributing to a variety of cultural and educational initiatives. Research Studios now has a presence in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin and New York.  His graphic language has become an international model for the new age of computer-oriented design.

http://www.researchstudios.com/ 

http://www.researchstudios.com/neville-brody/

Bibliography

http://www.linotype.com/669-12730/worksandsamples.html

http://www.linotype.com/669/nevillebrody.html

http://www.researchstudios.com/neville-brody/

http://www.researchstudios.com/

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/neville_brody/

http://www.myfonts.com/person/Neville_Brody/

http://www.typolondon.com/index.php?node_id=5.22&lang_id=1

http://vimeo.com/5800748/

http://vimeo.com/7704058/

http://www.researchstudios.com/NB_Bio_09.pdf (neville’s biography)

http://www.researchstudios.com/2011/10/05/off-canvas-converse-beijing-design-week/

http://www.researchstudios.com/2011/04/21/fuse-1-20-publication-coming-soon/

some of his clients!

He explores and reinterprets visual language for Adidas, British Airways, Macromedia, Armani, Nike, Sony, BBC.

Research Studios is a unique network who work from a wide variety of design platforms for a diverse range of international clients. Key clients of Brody and his Research Studio network have included BBC, Sony Playstation, D&AD (London), The Times (London), Nike, Dom Perignon, Parco (Japan), Bonfire Snowboarding (USA), The Barbican (London), Asics, The ICA (London), Apple, Microsoft, MTV (Europe), Issey Miyake, Philips, Bentley, Kenzo, Chloe, Martell, Salomon, The Guardian, Deutsche Bank,YSL and Wallpaper*.

Publications

•       J. Wozencroft “The Graphic Language of Neville Brody” London 1988.  It refers to the work  and life during college years and after.

Brody's fonts designs

Brody’s typographical style uses aesthetician elements from Art Deco.

He designed 20 different font families during his career. His typefaces are more with geometric elements, symbols and pictures. He made a great impact by combining existing typefaces and then he started designing his own typefaces. He was experimenting with running words and headlines using them rather as symbols or street signs.

1. FF Tyson,

2. FF World,

3. FF Typeface 6&7,

4. FF Typeface 4,

5. FF Tokyo,

6. FF Pop,

7. FF Harlem,

8. FF Gothic,

9. FF Dome,

10. FF Dirty 7.2,

11. FF Dirty 7,

12. FF Dirty 6,

13. FF Dirty 4,

14. Dirty 3,

15. Dirty 1,

16. FF Blur ,

17. FF Autotrace,

18. Industria,

19. Insignia,

20. Arcadia,