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Neville Brody, British Designer

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The British designer who shaped the 1980s magazine design

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Neville Brody is an internationally recognised art director and brand strategist. He was the creative director of The 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.

Explore artefacts connected to Neville Brody. The Postmodernism section captures the movement his work helped define through the 1980s. See also the United Kingdom page and The Face magazine series.

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The Face, Electro, 1984. Designed by Neville Brody
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, Thames & Hudson, 2001
Idea 250, 1995-5. Cover design by Noriyuki Tanaka + Neville Brody
The Face, No 50, June 1984. Designed by Neville Brody
The Face, Electro, No 49, May 1984. Designed by Neville Brody
Spread from The Face, No 52, August 1984. Designed by Neville Brody

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Neville Brody

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.

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