Neville Brody

Neville Brody is a British designer and art director. He has been working in the design industry for over 20 years. Brody out working in record cover design but became better known for his work as an art director for The Face magazine as well as advertisements and posters for films. His work often has titles with upper and lower case letters, as well as being different sizes and font. The words in his work are usually set out in unusual ways, such as, framing an image down the side instead of just beneath in a plain, contemporary way. there is often a lot of white space left in his The Face work, I think this makes the design stand out more, usually there is a lot happening on a page in a magazine.

Image Analysis

Article about Brian Eno from The Face magazine (1983)

• Black and white - magazines are normally in full colour
• ENO - immediately know that it is about Brian Eno
• Plus signs contrast the background colours and frame the mans face and the title
• Writing is broken down into smaller paragraphs
• Page is split into sections by the crosses, titles and picture
• Picture is interesting - the objects in the table are in focus

An advertisement for sunglasses

• black and white
• interesting use of letters and numbers - each mannequin head is labelled, the title is vertical and horizontal
• busy background
• unusual to have mannequin heads

Nike advertisement

• different sized letters
• different colour letters
• horizontal and vertical words
• small pictures of trainers
• large picture of a face
• interesting layout
• not much colour - mainly black and white
• interesting to look at
• clear advertisement