Ed Fella has worked across a number of fields within the art world. He begun his career working in the commercial world of advertising but now works in education. His work in graphic design and typography is unique and very distinctive; he is an established and impressive post modern artist. Fella’s work has embraced the postmodern concepts of deconstruction, he mixes high and low culture trends throughout his work.A lot of his works are cluttered pieces of typographic design that mix hand written fonts of different sizes and layouts, colours and shapes together, I think they are like perfected doodles.
Ed Fella’s personal approach to typography is bold and daring, his work has featured in Raygun magazine and it definitely falls into the same genre of artists that worked on their covers; very experimental and unconventional. Half of issue 17 of Émigré magazine is devoted to Ed Fella. His font designs are still featured by them. He blurs the divide between graphic design and art; this is certainly evident in his collages that are beautifully composed pieces of typography and art.
References
Ed Fella: Letters on America - Lewis Blackwell
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