Editor: Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Peter Miles, Nick Oates
Publisher: The Royal College of Arts
Publication: 1991, Limited (Estimated under 1000)
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 32
Size: 285 x 370
Text: English
FUEL was a seminal, rule-shattering independent magazine created by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell and (initially) Peter Miles & Nick Oates while students and immediately after the Royal College of Art. Now regarded as one of the most important British graphic design artefacts of the early 1990s, it pioneered raw, deconstructed typography and visual anarchy that directly influenced Ray Gun, Designers Republic, Tomato and the entire grunge/grunge movement.
Issue #1, subtitled Girl, was the final-year RCA project by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Peter Miles and Nick Oates. Printed in an oversized newsprint format with black + fluorescent inks, limited to roughly 1,000 copies, it contained zero conventional articles—only aggressive typographic collisions, distorted photocopy imagery and deliberate printing “errors.” Produced on the very first Macs running QuarkXPress, it embodied total desktop-publishing freedom and a middle finger to Swiss modernist tradition. Girl is repeatedly cited by David Carson, Rick Poynor and Adrian Shaughnessy as the British spark that ignited the global 1990s deconstructed typography wave.
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges.
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