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All access: the making of thirty extraordinary graphic designers. Written and designed by Stefan Bucher.
Edward Fella: letters on America/ essays by Lewis Blackwell and Lorraine Wild.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Ed Fella
After realizing that there isn't a lot of information and source material on Barry Deck, I have decided to focus my paper on Ed Fella. An artist and graphic designer who has had a huge influence on comtemporary typography in both the United States and Europe. He practiced as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before he received a MFA in design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1997 he received the Chrylser Award and an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit in 1999.
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Barry Deck
Part A:
arbitrary
template gothic
Born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1962
Graduating from Northern Illinois in 1986, became a graphic designer for Kim Abrams Design.
Enrolled in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the California Institute of Arts.
Studied an experimental approach with Ed Fella and Lorraine Wild.
Moved to New York in 1992-seen a radical in the conservative typeface community.
His typefaces appeared in publications such as Ray Gun, Emigre, Wired Eye, and I.D.
In 1995, he set up his own company called Dysmedia in New York
He has worked with Pepsi, Reebok, Nickelodeon, and VH1
Part B:
Barry Sans Serif, 1989
Canicopulus Script 1989
Mutant Industry Roman 1989
Bombadeer 1990
Industry Sans 1990
Template Gothic 1990
Arbitrary Sans 1992
Caustic Biomorph 1992
Cyberatica 1994
Truth 1994
Traitor 1997
Eunuverse 1999
FauxCRA 2002
Moderne Sans
Deck produced mutilated and distorted letter forms which were embraced by the music industry and style magazines.
arbitrary template gothic"I am really interested in type that isn't perfect. Type that reflects more truly the imperfect language of an imperfect world inhabited by imperfect beings." Template Gothic was inspired by letters drawn with plastic stencil. The typeface thus refers to a process that is at once mechanical and manual.
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