Brody

Neville (1957). One of those designers who revolutionized typographic art and graphic design. Educated at the London College of Printing, after graduation he was in charge of graphics for Cabaret Voltaire and became art director at Fetish Records, editing the artwork for the albums of unknown rock bands. As an art director in the early 1980s he was responsible for the image of the magazines The Face, City Limit, and Arena, in the process renewing English graphic design, and not only the “underground” media. In 1987 he opened his own shop, the Research Studio, which in a short time became the indispensable point of reference for anyone interested in graphics. In 10 years of success he designed logos for the German Cable TV Première, Orf, the Dutch Postal Service, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Park in Japan, and Greenpeace. In Italy, he was in charge of graphics for various magazines, including the monthly founded by Flavio Lucchini, Lei. Along with the publication of the book The Graphic Language of Neville Brody in 1988 there was an exhibit of his work which traveled to the principal European capitals, making him known throughout the world. The contents of the exhibit would form the basis of a monograph. In those years he founded Fuse (Font Works und Font Shop International), an organization which for the last decade of the 1900s dominated the international graphic scene. In 1994 The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 2 was published. This groups all his work made after 1988. With the advent of computer graphics, he expanded his field of interest and professional experiences, creating the most varied and versatile visual languages used in the world of electronic telecommunications.
Toward the end of the 1990s he worked with the Austrian DMC in the field of design and TV networks, while in Japan he was hired by Digitalogue for a series of CD-ROM’s.
Among recent clients are Nike, Adidas-Salomon, Mont Blanc, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The publication of The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 2 coincides with an exhibit dedicated to him by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It was one of the largest tributes organized by that museum in honor of pop culture.