ED FELLAEdward Fella is an American graphic designer, artist and tutor. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before an MFA in design from the Cranbrook academy of art in 1987. Since then, he has devoted his time to teaching and his own, unique, self-published work which has appeared in many design periodicals and anthologies. His spare time has been devoted to his own personal experimentation, which, for the most part, he self-publishes. . In 1997 he received the Chrysler award and in 1999 an honorary decorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. His work has had an important influence on contemporary typography.
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Edward Fella takes photographs of street signs however only sectors of them and combines diverse sections of different signs together as one image in squares of nine. These are taken using a Polaroid camera which gives the images a vintage look due to the colours produced in the Polaroid process at that time. He focuses on close up typographic elements in his photos. I like his work because of his use of colour, the seemingly orderly composition of each image of nine squares with the haphazard angles of each of the images and the variety of different images he captures.
My OPINIONMy Opinion on Ed Fella's work is that it is uniquely captivating; each piece has nine diverse segments of enticing imagery, each individually having their own engaging elements whilst still maintaining a flowing cohesion of aesthetic through colour and composition.
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However, I do not have the general view point that his work is particularly broad. Fella's work, is very limited in terms of him only capturing photographs of signs and general street typography, which thus creates a limitation for the overall expansion of his work. Understandably, he has limited himself on purpose to fit into a specific field of photography and as he self publishes, he may be particularly specialized for that field.
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