May 14, 2011 · Ed Fella (born 1938) is an artist, educator, and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. 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.

Edward Fella was a commercial artist for 30 years, from 1957 to 1987. Most of the works he created during this time were automotive and health care posters. [3] Fella was given the name "the king of zing" because of his whimsical illustration style he had. [4]

Ed Fella’s book LETTERS oN AMERicA documents the ‘vernacular’ aspect of US signage. It shows 1100 Polaroids, one-third of a collection taken over the past twelve years, of every kind of non-corporate, hand-made, weathered, imperfect piece of lettering you can imagine.

Oct 12, 2017 · Fella’s sketchbooks—which he started to produce in 1988 and continues to create today, now number over 100 volumes. The left side of the open sketchbook usually includes a faintly penciled thought, word, poem, or sentence.

Mar 10, 2022 · In 2012, an expressive alphabet by Fella graced the cover of the third edition of The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers, confirming his international standing. The writing and thinking about his work has come from design writers and educators.

Nov 29, 2004 · Edward Fella: Letters on America is a collection of hundreds of Fella’s own Polariods of other peoples’ hand drawn signs and graphic minutiae seen and recorded while travelling across America.

Edward Fella (born 1938) is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He created the OutWest typeface in 1993.

Special Feature: Edward Fella This issue of IDEA features Edward Fella’s unique typographic works in extraordinary volume with an Introduction by Lewis Blackwell and the essay “Lettering Beyond the Borders: The Art of Ed Fella” by David Cabianca.

Clearly everyone agrees that Ed Fella is one of the most daring and extreme graphic designers in America today.Famous for his obsessive hand-drawn alphabets and glyphs, Fella creates work...