Cranbrook Academy of Art meaning-making exercises in the 1980s collect + present images (esp. typographic images) here a few places to read about this school and the student's work key figures to present images, exhibitions and work: Ed Fella, Mixing Messages: Typography! (Cranbrook), Allen Hori and his piece syntax (BatesHori) Luption's Article on Cranbrook, Cranbrook from the book Graphic Design: A New History, and about Cranbrook from the book No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism. An article in Eye by Ellen Lupton, Cranbrook Academy of Art is producing some of the world's most challenging graphic design.
Allen ‘Typography As Discourse,’ 1989: “New directions in America typography are the subject of the lecture announced by this poster. The poster bases its composition on a communications theory diagram discussed in the lecture. Information clusters become smaller diagrams that question the conventions of written language.” Quoted from the book: Cranbrook Design the New Discourse, 1990.
Allen Hori (BatesHori): 'Too Lips' Poster, 1989" " Oral communication and storytelling are the subjects of a promotional poster for Typocraft, a commercial printer. Quotations from John Berger and Italo Calvino and communications theory terminology are montaged with photographic imagery. A verbal/visual pun connects tulip-petal imagery with the title." Quoted from the book: Cranbrook Design the New Discourse, 1990.
Allen Hori (BatesHori)
Ed Fella (click to see the entire image.)
Ed Fella's polaroids of signs and letters. (check them out!)
Ed Fella's polaroids of signs and letters. (check them out!)
Ed Fella’s drawing — “Ed Fella (born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award and in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MoMA in New ” —Wikipedia. Emigre also released typeface “parts” by Ed Fella: “OutWest” and “Fella Parts”.