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Bio

Neville Brody is an English Graphic Designer, Typographer, and an art director.

Born in April 23, 1957, from Southgate, London. Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Printing, and Hornsey College of Art. Beginning his studies in the 1970s in Britain, Brody took on three years in the London College of Printing — with his naturally experimental works, received more ill criticism due to the institution’s more traditional approach and discipline to design and printing.

However, Brody gained more opportunity and more public acclaim after his work as an art director for The face magazine, where he worked from 1980 to 1993. This magazine was popular around then for its forming of trends in design in that time period — it was referred to as a “fashion bible.”

In 1994, Brody established the Neville Brody Studio, which has expanded to having Offices in major European cities such as London, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin. And as a founding member of London Typeface foundry, Fontworks (which designed around 20 typefaces, during Brody’s presence).

FUSE is a publication for experimental typography and its practices, which Brody was a major contributor for. This publication was a large user of computers and their usage as primary design tools. One of the publications to largely use this form of design around the time.

Works by Brody

For some good examples of typography creations and signage, The Brody Associates web page provides some good examples of how Brody approaches the design of some of his typefaces. As well as the second site (fontfont.com) that provides a brief biography, as well as typography design.

Brody Associates Page

(fontfont.com) Biography/Font gallery

Denver, Colorado

For the first night of the project, our group took three generic words as our starters for the mind maps, we had branched out to what is seen in the image of one that I had kept.

Group Mind Map

We then came up with our original list of 25 items. I believe we got carried away with our results, which I later revised to add a little over 10 of my own ideas pulled out from the Mind map made by the group, and an alternate one that I had made.

My Item Pairings:

I created my list of thumbnails with the combinations listed on the right side of the first page, and each combination has two alternate designs.

My Favorite Tool Designs:

These four item pairings seemed to be the most charming tool creations to me.  Namely the banana holster as well as the Pen/light bulb combination. I felt that they had some cool use to them, but they looked fun above all. The first two images were based off of the idea of a Swiss army knife, or the shape of both a smart phone and a deodorant case.

My Top Ten Choices:

Sock+Banana

Holster/or sock +Banana

Toothbrush+Gun

Scissor+knife

Pen+flashlight

Umbrella+screwdriver

Scissor+toothbrush

Screwdriver+hammer

Hammer+wrench

Wheelbarrow+bayonet

Phone+deodorant

Skillet+Sword

Propeller+backpack

I feel that out of my whole list of pairings, these will be the most fun, perhaps practical, maybe more comical all at the same time.