He trained and worked a short period of time as an architect before being engaged in painting, drawing, print-making, and so called "commercial art".
[2] In the early 1950s he was a member of the Independent Group,[3] and taught at the Central School of Art with Anthony Froshaug, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi.
Edwin Taylor – friend and "companion of the road" told about Wright: Edward was not the sort of typographer who regarded individual letter forms as a precious jewels to be polished and placed in a tiara.
To Edward, each letter was a living form to be explored and shaped to suit a particular need or belief, in the same way an African carver would search out the core spirit and life-force in a piece of wood.
[9]Paul Stiff and Petra Cerne Oven, 'Edward Wright – unrecognised pioneer of British graphic design', Baseline 52, edited by Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2007