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DavidCarson

The Graphic Design of

By: Nick Gonthier

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An original species, born Sept, 8. 1954

“Hands on” Designer

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Originate expression.

David

An original species, born Sept, 8. 1954

“Hands on” Designer

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“My environment always influences me. I’m always taking photos and I believe things I see and experience influence

the work”. He became renowned for his inventive graphics in the 1990s. Having worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s, he art directed various music, skateboarding, and surfing maga-zines through the 1980s/90s, including twSkateboarding twSnowboarding, Surfer, Beach Culture and the music magazine Ray Gun. As art director of Ray Gun (1992-5), Carson came to world wide attention. In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he “changed the public face of graphic de-sign”.

Intuitive Design4

“My environment always influences me. I’m always taking photos and I believe things I see and experience influence

the work”.

Intuitive Design5

The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson By Lewis Blackwell + David Carson

Communication to the Surf and Skate World

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Carson’s work was the seed of its own growth onto something very different.

The commitment was to originate expres-sion, ceaseless exploration, and unending quest to originate and assimilate, and to change what you were doing if you recog-nized it was looking rule-bound.

“Intuitive design is key within design, some people have it and others do not. Don’t mistake legibility for communication”.

Communication to the Surf and Skate World

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“Intuitive design is key within design, some people have it and others do not. Don’t mistake legibility for communication”.

The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson By Lewis Blackwell + David Carson

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Carson’s aesthetic, design for the Art Gallary at Yale University. Google images.

Blog post of Carson’s work at monoscope.com

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David’s work can be overpowering and sometimes overwhelming, yet it strongly gets the message across.

His work can also be chaotic,and abstract in the extreme, often unreadable, but al-ways visually exciting. He abandoned the usual conventions of the grid system and ignored the acceptable usage of columns and headlines and even page numbers.

Finding the expression within the ideas and text.

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arson looks for the emotional response before people even begin to read. Finding the expression within the ideas and text. Carson’s work is familiar among the generation that grew up with Ray Gun magazine, and in general, the visually savvy MTV generation. He took photography and type and manipulated them and twisted them together and on some level confusing the message but in reality he was drawing the eyes closer to the viewer deeper within the composition itself.

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Work toward the MtV generation, “The End of Print”

www.flicker.com/photos

Headline for a lecture he was about to do. Google images.Bibliography:

-http:// www.Ted.com/talks,/David_carson_on_design.html

-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/david_carson_( graphic_designer)

-www.david carson design.com.com/.

-The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson, By lewis Blackwell + David Carson.