David Carson- Graphic Designer

"He changed the public face of design" "Most influential graphic designer of our times"

David Carson is considered by many to be one of the world’s most influential graphic designers. He describes himself as a “hands-on” designer and has a unique, intuition-driven way of creating everything from magazines to TV commercials.

Carson graduated with "honors and distinction" from San Diego state university, where he received a BFA degree in sociology. A former professional surfer, he was ranked #9 in the world during his college days. Numerous groups including the New York Type Directors Club, American Center for Design and I.D. magazine have recognized his studio's work with a wide range of clients in both the business and arts worlds. Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front page article in the new york times . London-based Creative Review magazine dubbed Carson "Art Director of the Era." The American Center for Design (Chicago) called his work on Ray Gun magazine "the most important work coming out of America." His work on Beach Culture magazine won "Best Overall Design" and "Cover of the Year" from the Society of Publication Designers in New York.

Like Neville Brody typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines. He believes that due to his lack of training enabled him to become the designer he is today as he based designs on what made sense to him. David Carson also believes that and designs should be self indulgent, subjective, personal, let your personality show through and put who you are into your work.

A tribute to other self-taught designers, David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as Pagemaker, QuarkXpress and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and intermixed these with striking photographic images.

Some of Carsons works;

The magazine RayJun- did every issue as if it was his last.

The magazine Beach Culture

The book Surf Culture

CD cover Nine Inch Nails

http://www.designtalkboard.com/design-articles/famous-designers.php

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/?dcdc=top/s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_%28graphic_designer%29

http://layersmagazine.com/an-interview-with-david-carson.html

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

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