Ed Fella
Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist for 30 years then went on to receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. Since then he has spent his time teaching and working on his own unique self-published work, appearing in many design publications and anthologies.
Much of his work is typographic experimentation and his style has an early 90’s feel. This was achieved by taking his photos on a Polaroid camera giving a vintage effect. He enhances and mixes fonts often engaging in visual puns and presents his photos in grids. He also creates drawings using various techniques including ink, collage, and Prismacolor pencils.
I like the vintage style to Ed Fella’s photographs. I will try and replicate the vintage style by enhancing and cropping my photographs on Photoshop. I like the format in which he presents his photographs because the photos often contrast against each other making the whole piece interesting to look at. He sometimes uses a specific colour scheme in his photos that he collages together so that each photo complements the other.
Much of his work is typographic experimentation and his style has an early 90’s feel. This was achieved by taking his photos on a Polaroid camera giving a vintage effect. He enhances and mixes fonts often engaging in visual puns and presents his photos in grids. He also creates drawings using various techniques including ink, collage, and Prismacolor pencils.
I like the vintage style to Ed Fella’s photographs. I will try and replicate the vintage style by enhancing and cropping my photographs on Photoshop. I like the format in which he presents his photographs because the photos often contrast against each other making the whole piece interesting to look at. He sometimes uses a specific colour scheme in his photos that he collages together so that each photo complements the other.
Robert Cottingham
Robert Cottingham, as most photo realists, uses the photograph as a sketch book of his visual imagery. Cottingham is fascinated by the power of various combinations of lettering that appear as advertisements on the streets of our community. Cottingham successfully employs compositional devices that add interest to his urban images. His concern for formalist abstraction encourages the viewer to focus on the play of light and the passage of time through his work as he records a sympathetic detachment to the phenomena of the 20th century urban landscape.