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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 magazines through the 1980s/90s, including twSkateboarding twSnowboarding, Surfer, Beach Culture and the music magazine Ray Gun. As art director of Ray Gun (19925), Carson came to world wide attention. In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he “changed the public face of graphic design”.

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The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson

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

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Blog post of Carson’s work at monoscope.com

Finding the expression within the ideas and text.

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avid’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 always visually exciting. He abandoned the usual conventions of the grid system and ignored the acceptable usage of columns and headlines and even page numbers.

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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”

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Bibliography:

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

-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.