David Carsons work..
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- NegativeSpace0
lol @ carson advancing typography to a level that hasn't been reached since, if by advancing typography to a level that it cannot be read, then yes, he did.
- NegativeSpace0
not
- forcetwelve0
just like asymetrical 'beatles' like hair cuts.
- go_st0
give it 10-15 years. by then the kids will think it's "retro" and cool. cycles baby, cycles...
- enfocusmedia0
In my juvenile delinquent days, if you 'dripped' whilst bombing or doing throw-ups, you were considered 'toy'...
Funny how times change.
- enfocusmedia0
On DC and surfing:
I really like the covers he did for Surfer magazine. At the time it was a completely different way (much needed) of looking at surfing.
And he has been a massive part of Quiksilver having the best Corp ID and brand strategy of all the BIG surfwear companies.
- enfocusmedia0
His work really influenced me when I starting out as a designer and it has been very influential in guiding 'design' to where it is today.
hard to hate on someone because of stories. Primadonna behaviour is never accepted (love the Cato story, forcetwelve) but player-hating is just as bad.
I bet you in 5 years time his "Raygun" style will be back in fashion.
- kodap0
(I meant a BIG UP)..
- forcetwelve0
i agree kodap. i would have liked to have seen him change with the times though and produced something different again...
- kodap0
Every designer (at least those with an experimental vein) owe him a bug UP for Raygun mag work.
- forcetwelve0
you seen him surf draconis?
- MKDraconis0
Yeah, the guy laughed all the way to the bank and now lives on an island with his own personal point break. Shit, he did something right. Everybody needs to stop hating...
- MKDraconis0
I agree. It's easy to say "not" now that it has been so exposed, dated, and dare I say...emulated?
- MKDraconis0
Surfs better than you...
- forcetwelve0
there was a great thread on DC a while back here. boy did it go on.
after he didnt turn up once to a seminar in AUS, Ken Cato put his personal email up on the screen so everyone could email him and tell him he sucked.
- MLP0
just checked his site and his stuff looks the same as it did 10 years ago.
- Bullitt0
Neville Brody
- Amp0
Didnt he do the design for the last couple Nine Inch Nails records?
- Soler0
His redesign of Marshal Macluhan's "The Meduim is the Massage" is nothing short of the bomb-diggity.
- skelly0
i've heard the same story regarding j. m. brockmann and students from basel.
i think carson did enough of his own thing, and deserves props. and yeah, he's full of himself, but so are most famous musicians and actors and i still appreciate music and movies... welcome to celebrity.