Hillman's Carson Interview.
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I don't think Carson is a designer at all. He's a wannabe artist.
Don't get me wrong, Raygun was great. But, it went under. Likely because the vast majority of people got fed up trying to read the mess he'd made of articles and just decided not to buy the magazine.
Some people call him a typogrpahic genius. I think that's a joke. All he ever did was fuck up his type and call it "progressive". Any jackass can do that. In fact, a lot of jackasses do it now and it doesn't mean shit anymore.
The only difference between Carson and someone else that can fuck things up is that someone actually hired him to design a magazine.
I'd like to see Carson design a wayfinding system or actually produce a decent design within the rules.
Like I said before, any jackass can "break the rules" but it takes a real genius to work within them and still produce something ground-breaking.
Bottom line, for me at least, is that Carson is all hype and no skills. The only reason he's a design rockstar is because he feeds on every designers desire to rebel against the real, corporate, largely non-creative work they do day-to-day.
But in the end, that's design.