David Carsons work..
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- mattyd040
in regards to the original question this thread posed... yeah, he's definitely a sexy man.
- Rand0
me and a buddy installed 2 way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood. He came to the door in a dress.
- mattyd040
i love his work but his website is like decoding morse code.
- Crouwel0
can't we all just get along.
- PonyBoy0
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com…
he's still solid. I take back my 'new generation' jibberish.
I'm sure there is a ton I could learn from him.
Amp's story sounds more like an urban myth - Carson has been around for along time and has 'developed' his style through time which you can definetly see when you look at his body of work chronologically.
- neue75_bold0
If I had to nominate an influential designer from the past 20 years to be the scapegoat for opening the door to the vast majority of contemporary, long-haried, boy-bandesque designers, I'd have to go with Dave Carson....
- Rand0
what a great story that would make
- Amp0
OK good, at least it's partially verified. I wouldn't want to spread shit talk and have it come back to me with a knock on the door at 4am with a drunk Mr. Carson, bottle of Jack in hand, looking for a fight.
OK wait that would be kind of awesome.
- alkanenine0
i heard the same story amp. very prick-like.
- Seff0
haha - that story is epic..
someone should investigate and verify
- Amp0
A story an instructor at college told us (I'm paraphrasing): Way back when, David Carson was becoming a better-known designer, but sapped creatively, so to get new ideas he asked a big name design school to send him student portfolios under the pretense that he would choose one as an assistant. He ended up keeping the portfolios, copying the deconstructed design style of the students and becoming as famous for design as he wished he was for surfing.
My opinion: its ok, and at the time it must have been a breath of fresh air, but I had the feeling he was a dick, and after hearing that story I really can't look at his work without the vague feeling that he's a hack.
- 23kon0
like MLP said, his work WAS groundbreaking at the time and his books were a huge inspiration to my fuct up typography through art college along with Attiks noise books and the clean typo of Neville Brody.
I still look through those books now for inspiration.
:)
I do think carson still deserves the praise for what he did back then. i dont know much about him these days so i cant comment on his pompousness.
BUT i do think that he deserves more kudos than a lot of the people who are today regarded as 'heros' or leaders in technologies like new media by everyone and their dawg
- MLP0
i have trek... its a great volume.
his work was groundbreaking at the time, but it seems like he's trying to ride the wave out. i haven't seen any of his stuff lately that makes my jaw drop.
regardless if he's good or not, regardless of how he was trained or figured out his style, he doesn't need to be so pompous about his shit - acting like his work should become the new paradigm.
- jondj240
i actually think the second book was better, a cleaner act but still Carson.
- de4k0
I'm looking at it.
the first book was better.
- kaiyohtee0
anyone ever pick up '2nd Sight: Grafik Design After the End of Print' ? his secondish book....
- kaiyohtee0
new media:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New…thanks for the verbage... useful for searching....
- Seff0
when i think of carson and new media i think of juxt
- robotron3k0
I remember reading an article about how he got his start. One day he was doing desktop publishing in a program called Pagemaker, he didn't know the program very well and when he imported text into a text box all the text smashed together. Instead of fixing the type it he just left if jumbled together.
That's it.
- 305artist0
I believe that since Carson there was a "designers republic"-type influence followed by a shift to a "bright/cutesy" influence that I think might have started in Japan....
and you cant forget the grafitti influence that is finally slowing down... which included the much seen "paint-drip"...
I hated these trends, but they were there very obviously.