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David Carson (8/09/1954) is said to be graphic designers most influential in the 90s decade. He was known by the innovative magazine design and test about typography, known as “grunge typography”. He is also the only art director for the magazine Ray Gun.
David Carson was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since that time his life traveling around the U.S. and Europe, and teaching around the world.
Carson first contact with graphic design in 1980 while taking a graphics course two weeks at the University of Arizona, under the communication of Jackson Boelts. He also studied at the University of San Diego and the Oregon College of Commercial Art. Then, in 1983, Carson taught school in Sociology at the California High School.
Time to visit Switzerland, he also attended a three week course on graphic design as part of his degree. This is also where he met the teacher had a huge impact on him, Hans-Rudolf Lutz. Carson also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (Social).
Carson became famous for the creation of graphics in the 1990s. Besides, he is also a teacher of sociology and was a professional surfer.
From 1982 to 1987, Carson was a teacher of Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California.
In early 1983, Carson started to try to walk through the field of graphic design and found himself in the art and cultural-Summer-piece (bohermian) of Southern California. Since this time he began to develop a personal style, use dirty word art “dirty typography”.
Carson served as art director for Transworld Skateboarding magazine, ranked 9 time world surfing contest. Thanks to surfing, he was invited to design the magazine Beach Culture, and left their mark in the world of graphics with a magazine for the blind is to completely black both front and rear.
Then Carson Marin Scott Jarrett hired designed for Ray Gun magazine, international magazine took the subject is music and lifestyle.
Do not hesitate to break the law, in some magazine debuted, he used Dingbat fonts for that than the silly interview with Bryan Ferry (In fact, the entire text is displayed characters can not read back the same number of Ray Gun, a motif repeated characters.
Ray Gun put Carson to new heights with the fascinated by his work. This period, publishers such as the New York Times (May 5.1994) and Newsweek (1996) seriously and very highly Carson.
In 1995, Carson began to open his own studio, named David Carson Design in New York, and focus on the customer in the United States.
In the following years Carson doing projects for Pepsi, Ray Ban, Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, NBC, Levi Strauss Jeans, and then the customers like AT & T, British Airways, Kodak, Sony, Suzuki, CNN .. the biggest names in the world.
He and Tina Meyers, designed type word “Crowfiti” used in the movie The Crow, City of Angels. Carson’s cover design for the first issue of Blue in the “top 40 magazine covers of all time”.
By 2000, Carson closed his studio and take the time to care for the children. In 2004, Carson became the Creative Director of Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, and continues to design special “Exploration” for Surfing Magazine, and directed a TV commercial account at Umpqua Bank in Seattle, Washington.
Carson defines his work as:
“Subjective individuals and really pamper yourself”
Carson’s career associated with the rise of Ray Gun Magaizne. He took pictures and used words to combine, and “twist” them together and the cryptic message at a certain level, but in fact he wants to draw more deeply in the eyes of the viewer .
In 11/1995, Carson published his first book titled End of Print. It sold more than 200,000 copies in five languages, and quickly became the best-selling books on graphic design in the world.
The second book, the 2nd Sign in 1997. Newsweek estimates that this book has changed the face of graphic design. 1998 Carson teamed up with Harvard professor John kao a documentary book “The Art and Discipline of Creativity.”
The third book of Carson is Fotografiks (1999) earned Carson Award Award of Best Use of Photography in Graphic Design.
Trek is the fourth book. Carson is also a main theme in his book The History of Graphic Design by Philip Meggs and The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw.
Steven Heller greatly appreciated graphic book that “He had influence with the taking typography as an expressive medium.” With the fourth book, Ellen Lupton who teaches design and graphics historical research that:
“David Carson continues to become one of the world’s most distinctive voices of graphic text, imitating many, but always unique.”
AIGA (Amerian Institute of Graphic Arts) said that Carson was “our biggest stars.” Private Eye magazine (London) published a graphic chart shows Carson was designed to be “google” the most.
In the period 1989-2004, David Carson to 170 awards for graphic design. One of them include:
- Best Overall Design, Society of Publication Designers in New York.
- Cover of the Year, Society of Publication Designers in New York.
- Award of Best Use of Photography in Graphic Design
- Designer of the Year 1998, International Center of Photography
- Designer of the Year 1999, International Center of Photography
- Master of Typography, Graphics magazine (NY)
- The most famous graphic designer on the planet, April 2004 – London Creative Review magazine (London)
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