Edward Fella is very different and unique artist who set his main focus on typography.
Born in 1938, he attended school in Michigan with the intent of learning various art forms and techniques in which he had developed over the years. After his learning, he started his promising career as a commercial artist and has been for 30 years.
He has developed two of his own typefaces-“fella” and “Outwest” Both typefaces were created in 1993 in Émigré. Fella or a Fellaparts is an alternative name for his own typeface. Both of Fella’s typefaces are displayed in emigre’s website to use and to look at. His typefaces came from his own experiments in typography and design. Ed Called almost all his work the phrase, “Getting it Wrong”. Ed style of Art is where he does everything wrong or in a unusual way . This is one of the reasons why I tend to call the man odd and extreme in the world of typography. The phrase may very well come from his choice of not following the rules.
His main source of tool is simply using colouring pencils and sketchbooks. Sounds simple but very effective to his work. In my opinion, I believe that this is an important that I take from his teachings. This shows that computers and other design do not always need to be used in order for high level art to be created. The use of cheap colouring pencils and sketchbooks can produce the same results and can be just as effective. It’s that idea of creating our prototypes on paper first rather than jumping straight to the software.
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