Brody's experimentation with his self-made
sans-serif typography, along with his Pop Art and Dadaism influence, caught the attention of music record companies such as
Fetish Records and
Stiff Records after he left college. He designed the majority of the latter label's releases, as well as artwork for other post-punk acts at this time, including
The Slits and
Psychic TV. The album
Micro-Phonies by Cabaret Voltaire was art directed by Brody in 1984. His infamous typography features on the front and a bandaged figure spouting liquid from the mouth stares blankly at the viewer. Brody was art director for
The Face magazine. He directed the art design of other newspapers and magazines including
City Limits,
Lei,
Per Lui,
Actuel and
Arena, as well as the redesigns of British newspapers
The Guardian and
The Observer. In 1988,
Thames & Hudson published the first of two volumes about his work, which became the world's best selling graphic design book. Combined sales now exceed 120,000. An accompanying exhibition of his work at the
Victoria and Albert Museum attracted over 40,000 visitors before touring Europe and Japan. In 1991, Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft created the
FUSE project.
FUSE is an interactive magazine that sets out to challenge our current ideas about typographic and visual language in an age of ever changing communications technology and media. Brody was also partly responsible for instigating the fusion between a magazine, graphics design and typeface design. The magazine ranges in themes from "Codes" and "Runes" to "Religion" and "Pornography." the exploration and freedom that the publishers exhibit is undeniable and exciting. The conventions upturned in FUSE are prescient in their definition of new standards. Each package includes a publication with articles relating to typography and surrounding subjects, as well as new font designs. In 1990 he also founded the
FontFont typeface library together with
Erik Spiekermann. Notable fonts include the updated font for the Times newspaper,
Times Modern,
New Deal as used in publicity material and titles for the film
Public Enemies and
Industria. In 1992, has designed the current '
ORF bricks' logo. Brody launched Research Studios with Fwa Richards in London in 1994. A sister company, Research Publishing, produced and published experimental multi-media works by young artists. The primary focus was on FUSE, the conference and quarterly forum for experimental typography and communications. The publication had 20 issues over a publishing period of over ten years. Three FUSE conferences have been held, in London, San Francisco and Berlin. The conferences brought together speakers from design, architecture, sound, film and interactive design and web. In 2010, the studio developed a global visual language for the
BBC, and in November 2006 they redesigned
The Times with the creation of a new font Times Modern. The typeface shares many visual similarities with Mercury designed by
Jonathan Hoefler. It is the first new font at the newspaper since it introduced
Times New Roman in 1932. The company also completed a visual identity project for the Paris contemporary art exhibition
Nuit Blanche in 2006. Research Studios launched a new look for the
champagne brand
Dom Pérignon in February 2007, having been appointed in 2004 to help the brand with its strategy and repositioning. In 2015, Brody rebranded Research Studios as Brody Associates. As of 2017, the Welsh WJEC exam board included Neville Brody as part of their Graphic Design curriculum. In 2021, Brody joined the advisory board of Dogamí, a blockchain-based "Petaverse" game, in which users "adopt" dog-inspired
non-fungible tokens. ==Work==