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Ed Fella is an inspiring designer, vernacular artist and educator based in central California. Inspired by his innovative body of work, we kindly asked him to contribute his responses to the Fill/Stroke issue 1 questionnaire.
“Don’t buy into the big status commodity culture that designers generally aspire to: food, dress, cars, lifestyle. Live modestly when faced with lots of money that you have to say no to.”
Fourteen years before our questionnaire, Emigre published a great interview with Fella.
MD: What if, in finding their own voice, the students become loud to the point of self-indulgence?
EF: I always joke about that with my students. I say, “You poor guys, you’ve got to go out and work and do all the stuff. When you’re my age you can retire and then you can indulge yourself.” I worked hard for thirty years, and now I’m not going to do any more commercial work. All I want to do in my “repose” is wallow in esthetic self-indulgence!
For more information on Ed and his life’s work, visit www.edfella.com or, hold your horses, we’re working really hard on issue 1!
Posted by Fill/Stroke in featured, issue 1, profile on 20 July 2008.
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