27 Facts About Edward Fella

Edward Fella was born on 1938 and is an American graphic designer, artist and educator.

Edward Fella was born in Detroit, MI in 1938 to a middle-class family and attended Cass Technical High School, a magnet school in Detroit where he studied lettering, illustration, paste-up and other commercial-art techniques.

Edward Fella graduated from Cass Tech in 1957 and went into the commercial graphic industry.

Edward Fella was a commercial artist for 30 years, from 1957 to 1987.

Edward Fella offered his services to some alternative art institutions and became the designer for the Detroit Focus gallery.

Edward Fella used a positive photostat machine and made collages with images and type that had been readily available.

Edward Fella made these posters for lectures and for appearances he made.

In 1985 Edward Fella retired from the commercial industry and decided to go back to school and enrolled in Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Subsequently, Edward Fella went to Cranbrook Academy of Art, graduating in 1987.

Edward Fella gave his last lecture at CalArts on April 15,2013.

Edward Fella was given the title of "Graphic godfather" by Emigre magazine.

Edward Fella was known to break every rule in typography and design.

Edward Fella 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.

Edward Fella distorted a style of sans-serif with his own hand writing with various thicknesses, curves, and tails to each character so that each one is different from the one before.

Edward Fella is one of the most extreme example of a typographer who is able to achieve the same creative freedom as the painters and sculptors he promoted in catalogs and posters.

When Edward Fella started making hand-hewn typography, he mirrored earlier "words in freedom" produced by Dadaist, Surrealist, and Futurist.

Outwest type looks like cactus wearing cowboy hats and Edward Fella Parts looks like a mix of comic sans and dingbat fonts.

Edward Fella's illustrations were reflective of the trends of the time, while the typography he used was ironic to commercial art deco type.

Edward Fella explored many different techniques, such as found typography, scribbles, brush writing, typesetting, rubdown letters, public domain clip art, stencils and more.

Later studying at Cranbrook, Edward Fella had the freedom to continue and concentrate on his artistic exploration and experimental designs.

Edward Fella's work developed into an elaborate pseudo-anarchic designs very different from anything being made at the time.

Edward Fella's designs impacted and influenced a new era of designers who wanted to make a claim to the design world.

Edward Fella started helping designers when he would visit Cranbrook as a guest critic before he became a student and continued even after he became a student.

Edward Fella made many sketch books and collages that helped inspire many Cranbook students to break the barriers of visual design like Edward Fella did.

Edward Fella's work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Brauer Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Edward Fella was the recipient of the 2007 AIGA Medal, according to Lorraine Wild.

Edward Fella was the recipient of a Chrysler Award in 1997.