Chris Ashworth
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- skt0
don't think chris himself was ever in this thread.
nice ego by the way.
- RJT0
the getty work is bland. the carson work is.. a rip of carson. whats the fuss? and the award list is a list of two-bit operations in the back of beyond that any big company with enough money can scatter bomb with entries and pick up. i say this looking at my silver and gold d&ad pencils chris.. maybe one day you can join the big boys...
- Chris stole one of your clients and fucked your wife didn't he?amongthemasses
- neue75_bold0
I can with no regret admit that I threw away all my college works inspired by the likes of Ashworth, carson and the likes... Personally I was much more interested in the Ray Gun era when Scott Denton-Cardew cleaned up that bloody mess and let the content dictate the form... That said, it was never a terribly well written magazine...
Kind of off topic, but I remember hearing stories about when some former colleagues were visiting the Attik back in the late 90's for a studio tour and when talking with the designers there, it was evident there was no concept what-so-ever to what they were doing, and to them the 'interesting' bits about the work that the pointed out to the students, was the fact that they had like 100 layers going on in one PS file...
Ah the propensity for density... good times...
- mistermik0
i like so fuck the knockers.
- ximeraLabs0
I was in my 3rd year in college (4 year course) when my friends and I discovered Carson, through The End of Print. Ashworth was then doing Raygun. Huge influence on me during 1 year in college, to the verge of actually copying the style without thinking about it. I think I prefer Ashworth over Carson because his work feels more considered and refined imho.
Great to see all his work collected online.
- Sane reason I really like his stuff, that Swiss twist on the carson style.gradiate
- uncle_helv0
I think Raygun could be considered a trailblazer, as it showed what a magazine could be, open to interpretation, that has been celebrated ever since, some more successfully that others.
Although setting a whole feature in Dingbats, 'cause he thought the interview was a boring, was a little bit of egocentric twaterry!!!
- Yeah, but still funny that he actually got away with it.ximeraLabs
- zshed0
It would be interesting, reading the responses here, to see who was around working and/or studying when Chris Ashworth/Tomato/Ray Gun/David Carson were of the moment, and who has more recently studied/started work.
Sure the Ray Gun and Blah Blah Blah stuff are often incredibly difficult to read but it was an inspiring eye opening style when it emerged back in the day and maybe now it all does seem a bit old hat and self defeatist.
- morilla0
love the raygun stuff
- Renegade0
great web skills!
- says the guy who has built a website too wide for laptops and without a horizontal scroller23kon
- SNAP!kello
- So... Do you like own Firstborn? Or do you just work there?morilla
- if the SNAP was at me - rather than having just a holding page, the other week i slapped an old...23kon
- ... portfolio into a new layout temporarily. shall be changing when i get time :P23kon
- zshed0
Blimey, some blasts from the past on there.
What a selection of work!
- roundabout0
Blah, Blah, Blah magazine, the only magazine I could not read.
- monoboy0
All the covers for Ray Gun we're produced by hand on board. Sticky tape, hand lettering.
- Leigh0
Ray gun Out of Control Book was my first design book purchase back in 98.
- Mine was End of Print in the same year!! followed by Process: A Tomato Proces, which I still have a soft spot for!!!uncle_helv
- ...for!uncle_helv
- hhaa yes i remember them well.Leigh
- The whole dubnowbasswithmyhead... and process mix was specialzshed
- 3point141590
Please help him with a new Website design for Christmas, thank you:)
- he is not a web designer, he is a print designer. Indexhibit is fine for him. I get so effed off every time i read this style of comment on here.gradiate
- +1 Gradiate!uncle_helv
- If he is not a web designer, then don't fuckin' post a website site, mail out brochures!Renegade
- does he have your address renegade you fanny?skt
- Get off his cock, moe!Renegade
- How he uses the internet to promote, document himself is up to him. It's a good tool for documenting something in a straightforward manner.gradiate
- 23kon0
I have a copy of issue #1 of Blah Blah Blah sitting in a plastic envelope in my drawer here.
I'm open to offers :P
- uncle_helv0
I have the Oasis 50 issue and the Janes Addiction, infact I have most of the Ashworth directed Raygun's, and Carson for that matter, plus all the Tomato Process books... I did enjoy the photocopied, fractured, deconstructed typography days of university freedom!!!