Born 1956, Texas.
An American graphic designer, David Carson is most famous for his use of experimental type and innovative magazine design.
Carson was the founding art director for the alternative rock and roll magazine Ray Gun.The magazine was important because it abandoned the conventional rules of publishing by discarding headlines, columns and page numbers. This created an original and abstract style and was soon mimicked on album covers and posters.
This pushing of boundaries and originality is hard to be influenced by because if you try to push boundaries I always find the results are thin and without meaning, what I have learnt from David Carson is that rules are not set in stone and sometimes the best results are when you do not follow them.
www.davidcarsondesign.orgAn American graphic designer, David Carson is most famous for his use of experimental type and innovative magazine design.
Carson was the founding art director for the alternative rock and roll magazine Ray Gun.The magazine was important because it abandoned the conventional rules of publishing by discarding headlines, columns and page numbers. This created an original and abstract style and was soon mimicked on album covers and posters.
This pushing of boundaries and originality is hard to be influenced by because if you try to push boundaries I always find the results are thin and without meaning, what I have learnt from David Carson is that rules are not set in stone and sometimes the best results are when you do not follow them.
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