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Ed Fella Hand-Drawn (1990) — Cover

About Ed Fella Hand-Drawn (1990)

Ed Fella spent twenty-five years as a Detroit commercial illustrator before walking away from computer typography in 1987. What followed was a fourteen-year run of hand-lettered flyers for the Detroit Focus Gallery — dense, asymmetric, annotation-heavy compositions where every letter is drawn uniquely and the page reads like a personal diary. This system captures that spirit: wobbly headlines, mixed hand-drawn typefaces, margin notes, paper offsets, and a screenprint-blue ground that refuses the polished grid.

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Origin
Detroit / Valencia, California, USA
Era
1987–2001 (Detroit Focus Gallery flyers); CalArts professor 1987–2013
Key figures
Ed Fella · Lorraine Wild · Jeffery Keedy · P. Scott Makela
Movements
Vernacular Modernism · Post-PostScript · Anti-grid Hand-lettering

Ed Fella Hand-Drawn (1990) design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

CaveatHeadings
Architects DaughterBody
Courier PrimeMono
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