Neville Brody

Neville Brody

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Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957 in London) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.

Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey College of Art, and is known for his work on The Face magazine (1981–1986) and Arena magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Depeche Mode. He created the company Research Studios in 1994 and is a founding member of Fontworks.

His tutors often condemned his work as "Uncommercial",[citation needed] often putting a heavy emphasis on safe and tested economic strategies, as opposed to experimentation.\(a rulebreaker-perhaps reflect this in the aesthetics of the portfolio)?

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English graphic and type designer with a devoted following for his anti-traditional views. Studied at the London College of Printing. Art Director first of The Face, a London-based “style” magazine, from soon after its birth, then of the men’s magazine Arena. By the early 1990s he was able, with a straight face, to recommend abandoning typography’s requirement of legibility — gloating as a chill shot down the spines of his type-pro audiences...

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http://mrbou.com/2009/11/16/neville-brody-on-typography/

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http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/2008/neville_brody.html

Insignia® was designed as a headline face for Arena magazine in 1986, and released as a font by Linotype in 1989. Insignia has the basic forms of constructed grotesque fonts and was influenced by the New Typography of the Bauhaus during the 1930s.

Insignia's monoline, round-and-sharp forms reflect the Zeitgeist of that age, suggesting technology and progress. Yet, like other Brody fonts, Insignia is also immediately recognizable as one of the hip, cutting-edge classics of our own computer era. The alternate font has half-serifs on the E, F, and Z; squeezed bowls on the P and R; a wider J; and an S made from protractor-shaped parts. Four original Brody fonts are available from Linotype: Insignia, Insignia Industria Solid, Industria Inline and Arcadia. His designs have received international recognition for their innovative style, reaching almost cult status. (Linotype)

Insignia® Com Roman The really useful aspect of Insignia is that you can confidently use it for an illustration font. The unique characteristics of the upper-case letters lend themselves well to some dramatic logo configurations, and the uniform strokes allow you to continue, merge, add or subtract while retaining total readability! This is a designer's must have font! Besices, Brody's designs have received international recognition for their innovative style, reaching almost cult status.

Insignia was designed as a headline face for Arena magazine in 1986, and released as a font by Linotype in 1989. Yet, like other Brody fonts, Insignia is also immediately recognizable as one of the hip, cutting-edge classics of our own computer era.