ROXY: 1980's "The Face" - Neville Brody

From 1981 to 1986 Neville Brody was art director of the magazine "The Face", for which he designed a distinctive typographical appearance that inspired magazine designers and other designers worldwide

Neville Brody was a typographer, graphic designer and art director. Brody is perhaps the best known graphic artist of his generation. He uses letters and numbers in his art pieces with an anti-traditional view on art. He played at the margins of visual language and used it to launch a revolution in typeface design.

Brody drew freely to create his visually exciting layouts and typography on avant-garde artistic ideas of the 1920s and 1930s such as those of De Stijl and Russian Constructivism. Far removed from contemporary editorial conventions Brody's work had a studied informality in the thoughtfulness devoted to the construction of its layouts, with blocks of texts often placed horizontally or vertically on the page, their often distinctive layouts contrasting strikingly with hand-mediated imagery and photography. Such ideas exerted a significant international impact on the appearance of magazine, advertising, and retailing design.

The contents spread from The Face's 1982 May edition.



An ad from The Face for dresses.

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Neville Brody

Neville Brody was a typographer, graphic designer and art director. Brody is perhaps the best known graphic artist of his generation. He uses letters and numbers in his art pieces with an anti-traditional view on art. He played at the margins of visual language and used it to launch a revolution in typeface design.

Brody is also well known for being one of he first people to use a Mac computer to create his designs.

An ad Brody made for Nike

Brody first began work on record cover designs and then progressed to working as the Art Director for The Face Magazine between 1981 and 1986.

A copy of The Face magazine printed in the 1980's.

Brody has pushed the boundaries to visual communication on many different platforms of media using exploratory creative expression.

He was also partly responsible for instigating the FUSE project an influential fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design

Notable fonts he helped create include the updated font for the Times newspaper, Times Modern.

Neville Brody made famous a job which, under normal circumstances, would remain obscure.

To view some of the fonts he created, click here.
To see an over view of his book "The Graphic Design Language" click here.

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