*Graphics Arts year two visual communication one Project 1-5 : research, inspiration and critique by Craig Matchett.

Neville Brody

Neville's work on face magazine has made him one of the most in demand art directors in publishing his fresh modern designs in face was ahead of its time and it appears time is still yet to catch up with him. After making the guardian a master peace of design and layout with perfect grids and fantastic use of images taking advantage of full colour printing and new paper creating bespoke fonts that are elegant and a pleasure to read.

  • Guardian Egyptian
  • Guardian Sans
  • Guardian Text Egyptian
  • Guardian Text Sans
  • Guardian Agate
soon after Brodys skills were in demand again for a redesign on the times news paper tasked with creating the the successor of the still beautiful Times New Roman. He created Times modern. The kerning is precise and the inerspacing has been freed up making it much more legible.


new look guardian
, guardian newspaper, my fonts, the times,