New David Carson Book...
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- andre_k
That guy should stop wasting paper.
- jevad0
oh come on!
he may not be doing the hippest coolest shit at the moment...but the guy is, or at one point at least, was pushing the boundaries - especially for all teh stuff he did for surfer and raygun magazine...
- spendogg0
I dont want to hate, but i may have to agree. he did alot for the design community, but this is just masterbation.
- k770
that's beautiful.
i think andre_k is just picking a fight
- andre_k0
haha, yeah a fight with who?...
if you have been around for the past 10 years you might taste that he is just a bit played out...
one trick pony is the word
- k770
but he's still doing it & getting paid. 10 years isn't that long to be doing it and getting paid to do it.
- ********0
i have met the guy and think hes a jerk but i still reallly dig on his work
- stewart0
pfffft.
wha-izz-it ?
- andre_k0
yes, if 10 years of found photography and thoughtless deconstruction didn't do it, lets have another 20!
- k770
one up him. it's the rockstar in the arena who gets the thrills and the girls, not the critic.
- unknown0
his old work was better anyway..
- kerus0
he's making books and getting paid. if people keep buying them, then why stop gettin paid.
- jevad0
yeah - one trick pony!
suuuuure...
- ********0
i dont liek to dream about gittin payed
- ********0
I think at one point in all our design lives (well I'm 26 and referring to my college days) we found Carsons work visually arresting...negative baselines, loose structure and lack of boundaries, the post-modern dream.
But unfortunatley to me the man cannot communicate, and his dogma based on intuition and ideas of trying to change the way in which we read, MTV generation and all that(try undo over 500 of reading without change) no thought not Mr Carson, good try though. His ideals were just played out versions of Weingart or Van Der Laans.
Sorry I'm more Ruder than Carson.
- jevad0
"His ideals were just played out versions of Weingart or Van Der Laans"
*ouch*
- paulrand0
he's still capable of a page or a spread that startles with its freshness.
- rasp0
he used to push boundries..
yesnow he doesnt
its as simple as that.been there, seen that, bought the book...
but now its not the 90's anymore mister carson.
and yes ive met him too.
a bit of an arse that thinks lectures are a good way to pull student chicks.
- ********0
Well come on...Weingart believed that reading and absorbing the message shouldn't be as passive as it generally is, he used contrast proportion and other tricks to slow down the process and make reading etc more user active, sounds like Carson to me, but with a bit of computer manipulation thrown in!!
- ********0
agree with rasp technology is changing design so quickly I mean the Carson fad was then followed by the Tomato jittery type thing, went all clean and swiss for a bit and now it seems to be this punk anti technology thing.
- paulrand0
soon everybody'll be going back to those awful neville brody typecfaces