A L B U M COVERS

Neville Brody started out making album covers and flyers for musicians at his college. Brody’s experimentation with type and posters caught the eye of many people including music record companies like “Fetish Records” and “Stiff Records” after he left college. Brody worked manly with Grudge and punk bands since that’s where his inspiration came from. The work on the left is from the album “Micro-Phonies” By Cabaret Voltaire and was art directed by Brody in 1984, you can see the use of grungy style in the cover. Another album cover Brody did was for the sex pistols “God save the queen” you can see in this one how he likes to experiment with type and not respecting space for imagery by having the type “god save the queen” across the eyes of the queen of England.

Neville Brody’s -art work he made using his own type.

This work is by Brody is called “free me from freedom” 2008. This work is somewhat different from Brody’s traditional work as it plays with color and only sticks to one balance of scale for the letters. He fills the space up, but that’s normal in Brody’s work, the weight of the letters stacking on each other are equal and uniform. The stacking of letters is what Brody was meaning when creating his experimental work and just having to go out the norm. The experimental use of colors in this is what makes it Brody, but the black background helps it not be distracting from the lettering itself and creates a nice contrast which is normal for Brody to have calm background and more risky type. The composition of the letters on one side works well too.

Brody’s work is experimental and fun. He gives lots of room of creativity but keeps his style intact with the playing of scale, placement, and hierarchy. He uses scale to cover all the negative space. His color choice is usually always natural and gives a punk vibe.

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