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Neville Brody

The Face, No 50, June 1984

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Neville Brody
Neville Brody is an internationally recognised art director and brand strategist. He was the creative director of Face magazine and worked with many record labels and clients, including Apple, BBC online, The Times and Channel 4. He has had monographs published that include The Graphic Language of Neville Brody and has exhibited his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is also the founder of design agency Brody Associates. Brody's approach treated typography as image, using letterforms as structural and expressive elements rather than purely communicative ones. In 1994, he co-founded FontShop International with Erik Spiekermann, contributing to the democratisation of type design in the digital era. Explore the Design Reviewed archive to discover artefacts connected to Neville Brody. The Postmodernism section captures the movement his work helped define through the 1980s, while the United Kingdom archive reflects the British design scene he reshaped. Browse the 1980s decade page and  the The Face magazine series.
The Face
The Face was a British style and culture magazine that featured fashion, music, youth culture, and editorial design that reshaped magazine art direction in the 1980s.

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The Face, No 50, June 1984. Designed by Neville Brody
The Face, No 50, June 1984. Designed by Neville Brody
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