Ed Fella

Edward Fella (born 1938) is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He created the OutWest type in 1993. His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Brauer Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of the 2007 AIGA Medal. He is also the recipient of the Chrysler Award in 1997.Curt Cloninger called Fella as "the contemporary master of hand-drawn typography."

Fella was born in Detroit, Michigan. He learned about commercial art while a student at Cass Technical High School. He received his Master of Fine Arts in design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which he started when he was 47. He quit his commercial art job to create his own art. He teaches at the California Institute for the Arts.

He created the OutWest typeface. He designed it by hand. It has a 15-degree ellipse. His hand design style has been described as "American folk art typography". His style and work has influenced designers like Lorraine Wild, P. Scott Makela, Jeffrey Keedy, Elliott Earls and Barry Deck.

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 began teaching at California Institute of the Arts

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