Neville Brody

Neville Brody

GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND DEAN, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS

Perhaps the best known graphic designer of his generation, Neville Brody rose to prominence as art director at The Face and then Arena in the ’80s and ’90s, and remains an influential figure today as head of the Royal College of Art’s Communication, Art and Design department. One of the founding members of FontShop, the first font reseller in digital type history, Brody has designed a number of well-known and widely used typefaces, and was responsible for design makeovers for the Guardian and Observer. In 1994 Brody founded Research Studios, which has today opened branches in places as far-flung as Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona and New York, working with clients from Kenzo and Dom Pérignon to Paramount and The Times, for which it created a new font, Times Modern, the newspaper’s first new typeface since Times New Roman in 1932.