Ed Fella
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Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. Ed worked as a commerical artist designing
brochures and illustrations. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts
and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award, in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit and in 2007 he became an AIGA Medalist. His work is in the National Design Museum and MoMA
in New York.
Ed Fella was born in 1938 in Detroit and now currently lives in Los Angeles. He worked on several different pieces of work that he contributed to different galleries. In such galleries, his work is in exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; the Pasadena
Museum of California Art; the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York;
the Detroit Institute of the Arts; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and much more through out the Untied States.
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His first published book "Edward Fella: Letters on America, Photographs and Lettering" gives insight into his idiosyncratic world by combining and juxtaposing examples of his unique hand lettering with his photographs of found vernacular lettering. Letters on America also includes an impressionistic text by Louis Blackwell. Fella’s only words which he saved for the acknowledgements, are in the pictures themselves, and those in the photos are by others. The book is made up of Polaroids laid out expressing where Fella's visions come from. His latest book is the catalogue for the show "Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge." Curated by CalArts professor Michael Worthington, the show was held at LA's RedCat gallery in 2008.
brochures and illustrations. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...
and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award, in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit and in 2007 he became an AIGA Medalist. His work is in the National Design Museum and MoMA
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in New York.
Ed Fella was born in 1938 in Detroit and now currently lives in Los Angeles. He worked on several different pieces of work that he contributed to different galleries. In such galleries, his work is in exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; the Pasadena
Museum of California Art; the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York;
the Detroit Institute of the Arts; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and much more through out the Untied States.
Half of issue 17 of
His first published book "Edward Fella: Letters on America, Photographs and Lettering" gives insight into his idiosyncratic world by combining and juxtaposing examples of his unique hand lettering with his photographs of found vernacular lettering. Letters on America also includes an impressionistic text by Louis Blackwell. Fella’s only words which he saved for the acknowledgements, are in the pictures themselves, and those in the photos are by others. The book is made up of Polaroids laid out expressing where Fella's visions come from. His latest book is the catalogue for the show "Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge." Curated by CalArts professor Michael Worthington, the show was held at LA's RedCat gallery in 2008.