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"Like his work on not, he is the most impactful art director of our generation, and changed type/design forever."
Changed type design??
No what he did was tried using type conceptually, emotionally, or to put it into plain english
ILLEGIBLITY.Carson always harped on about every turn of a page should be treated with real emotion hence the chaos I think, all he did was tire the reader out too quickly with his typographic obstacle course and make a pretty magazine as apose to something worth reading!!
Carson = form over content = not design.
To me he was/is an artist or a graphic illustrator. Unfortunatley for Carson artists don't have to give reasons for what they do, where as designers have to justify their actions, through consideration, structure, layout ...etc