Designer Edward Fella
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Designer Edward Fella comes from Detroit but moved to California to teach at Cal arts. His designs are considered eccentric in a number of ways, and some critics have stated that they defy description. Fella takes the naive vernacular approach to an extreme. He dares the viewer to be condescending toward the graphic design produced by the designer (De Forest 19). Another analysis of Fella's work holds that the designer wants to "decrease" design by seeking to deconstruct it, or take away the social lubricant by which ideas are made palpable (Carducci, "Spider's Stratagem" 6). Fella has been described as unhappy with the arbitrary divisions between art and design. Fella draws letters to form an awkwardly elegant alphabet influenced by the vernacular of the Old West, and his innovative fonts demonstrate the rewards of new type design by and for those willing to break decades-old rules (Makela 22). Fella is cited by Steven Heller as one of the new young turks whose work reflects the prevailing desire to reject the verities of design in favor of imposed discordance and disharmony, and because of this Heller says that Fella's work will be little more than a blip in the history of graphic design. Fella started as a commercial artist. He then shifted his interest and introduced the vernacular in the form of the wild and the impure, what Heller calls "forbidden excesses": These excesses, such as nineteenth-century fat faces, comical stock printers' cuts, ornamental dingba
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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