Ed Fella

I've decided that I actually love Ed Fella, so how can I not include him in my research? I've only ever looked at his work and admired I have never bothered to contextualise him before, I hope that my opinion still remains the same.
I first decided to look at his website which is just a work of art in itself, here is a screenshot:

Homepage of Ed Fella's website

Ed Fella is an artist is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography.

• Bulk of his career he was a commercial artist
• Highly personal work 
• Handmade fonts/Old technologies
• Prefers to disturb, distort and distract rather than creating order, balancing and creating order.
• Found Art

"I am interested in graphic design as art"

This is a page from his book, 'Letters on America,' where he took polaroids of urban typography in across America whilst travelling. I think the reason I love this is because it's appropriately red, white and blue. I would like to do something like this, even if I choose to take pictures of something else and use them at a later date. Below is another example taken form the same book.

Although Ed Fella is no longer practising as designer/illustrator anymore, he still continues to work and will probably always do so. The thing that originally caught my eye about his work was the fluency and vibrancy of it.

Other work, work that I love

Easy over ease

Eye Candy

Jazz at the Fox

One of the things i love about Fella's work is the technical brilliance of it, it looks like it took hours! Not only that but it's also so visually stimulating, it makes you feel happy. It's like it's been made to give you the same feeling flowers in Supermarkets are. I love his style because it can't be copied, and again I am very interested in creating things by hand, and perhaps experimenting with things that are already available to me.