Discourse - Ed Fella

Ed Fella is typographic artist as well as an educator and a graphic designer. His work is mostly known for his influence of contemporary typography. When I saw his work, straight away I thought his work is more tentative to artist like Alex Trochut, he is obviously different to many designers/artist out there but his work seems to have a more 'drawing type' look by using different medias such as pens, pencils,crayons and etc to draw out words and use a lot of different colors to dinstinguish his work from others. His work is very respectable but to an extent it doesn't really appeal to me as other artist do, maybe it is because his theme or the way he composes his work is something that i can't quiet understand. His work seems to be something of the past, not very modern which makes him stand out from the rest.

This is one of Ed Fella's work called 'Bunch'. This is one piece of his artwork in the category of lettering. You can see he has put his influences of contemporary type within the way he has worked the lines and curves to form a B. However, he has tried to make the be different adding extra curves, hence the title named Bunch that defines his artwork 'bunching' up lines and curves. He has also added a lot of color similar to a rainbow to be more creative. He is a typographer from the past living in the present working for the future.

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