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Biography
Edward Fella was born in Detroit,MI in 1938. Fella was a born in to a middle class family and attended Cass Technical High School,a magnet school in Detroit where he studied lettering, illustration, paste-up and other commercial-art techniques. He graduated from Cass tech in 1957 and from then he went into the commercial graphic industry. He worked in the commercial industry for 30 years. After his time as a commercial artist he went to study at the center for creative studies and graduated from there in 1985 and then after that Fella went to Cranbrook academy of art and graduated from there in 1987. After graduating from Cranbrook he accepted a job a California institute of technology

Early Career
Edward Fella started his career as a commercial artists for 30 years(1957-1987). He most of his works he did during this time was Automotive and health care posters. According to this article his first job right after he finished high school he was an apprentice at Phoenix studio it was his first job in the commercial space." . His day to day work during his time as a commercial artist was drawing head lines and lay outs which helped refine his style and skills. His illustrations were reflective of the trends of the time,while the typography he used was ironic to commercial art deco type. Fella Explored many different types of techniques that helped him through his career in design such as found typography, scribbles,brush writing, typesetting, rubdown letters, public domain clip art, stencils and much more. Fella was given the name the king of zing because of his whimsical illustration style he had. During the 60's and 70's Fella felt that his commercial work was not enough for him and started to become very active in Detroit's culture scene. He offered his services to some alternative art institutions. He also became the designer for the Detroit focus gallery. While there he created dozens of event posters and directed the Detroit focus quarterly. These types of assignments gave Fella the push to print the kind of experimental and crazy designs that he was doing in privet. Fella used direct a positive photostat machine and made collages with images and type that had readily available. One of Fella's main creative outlet was his after the fact posters. These posters were made to give attended for events, He makes a small amount of poster to give to people that attend the event instead of having to make a bunch of poster for only a small amount of people to see and come to the event. He made these posters for lectures and for appearances he made. Since he made the posters for people that came to the event he had more creative freedom because he did not have to make it appeal to a commercial audience. The posters also helped him to continue expanding his body of work. In 1985 Fella retired from the commercial industry and decided to go back to school and enrolled in Crane Brook Acadamy Of The Arts.

Education
Edward Fella had graduated high school then went in to his career as a commercial artist. He attended a public trade school in Detroit called Cass Technical High School where he spent three of his four years studying commercial art. . He studied lettering, illustration, and past up and many other commercial techniques. He graduated from Cass Tech in 1957 then went straight in to his first job as an apprentice. After 30 Years of work in the commercial industry Fella went back to school and in 1985 revived his BFA (Bachelor of fine arts)in design from the Center of creative students in detroit. Then in 1987 received his MFA (Master Of Fine Arts) in design from Cranbrook acadamy of art in Michigan. In 1987 Fella was hired to teach at California institute of technology by Lorraine Wild. Fella gave his last lecture at CAL arts on April 15,2013

In The 1980's Fella would go to Crane Brook Acadamy Of The Arts in Bloom field Hills and he showed his extensive collection of experimental work that he did in his off time while working as a commercial artist. He would present these works to Katherine and Michale McCoy's students. Then Fella found out that Katherine and Michale was creating a design program at Crane Brook so after he retired from doing commercial art he decided to enroll in the program. While in Crane Brook Fella was able to pursues his exploration of design and helped him refine his craft and combined his new creative work with his 30 years of experience as a commercial artist.

style
Edward Fella was known to break every rule in typography and design. He had a style that that was unique to him at the time it was slightly base on the theory of deconstruction, but he took that and pushed it even further. He distorted a style of sanserif with his own hand writing with various thicknesses, curves, and tails to each character so that each one is different from the one before. Fella is one of the most extreme example of a typographer who is able to achieve the same creative freedom as the painters and sculptors he promoted in catalogs and posters. When Fella stated making hand-hewn typography he mirrored earlier "words in freedom" produced by Dadaist, Surrealist, and futurist. Fella has created two typefaces Outwest and fella parts these typefaces show his excentric and creative style. These typefaces both had a huge impact for being quirky and different. Out west type looks like cactus wearing cowboy hats and Fella parts looks like a mix of comic sans and dingbat fonts. He distributes these font through Emigre fonts and even thought these fonts are crazy and over the top they were still adapted to mainstream designs.

Historical Influence
Throughout his career he has helped and influenced designers with his designs. He started helping designers when he would visit Cranbrook as a guest critic before he became a student and continued even after he became a student. After graduating he joined Cal Arts where he taught design and helped influence the new generation of designers. An example of someone he influenced is Jeffery Keedy, Keedy made a typeface called keedysans it has similarity's to fellas style with inconsistent spacing and the characters were rounded and sometimes sliced. Also Barry Deck a graduate from cal arts made a gothic template which was influenced by Fella, Deck even says that he made it intentionally imperfect to show the imperfect language of an imperfect world. Decks typeface became one of the most impotent typefaces of the decade. Fella made many sketch books and collages that helped inspire many Cranbook students to break the barriers of visual design like fella did.