David Carson to keynote speak at FUSE:DESIGN+BRANDING 2014

FUSE: Design & Brand Strategy. FUSE celebrates a collaborative approach to building brands and unites top executives in brand strategy and design. Carsons work is inspirational and groundbreaking . The 18th annual FUSE will be on April 7- 9, 2014 in Chicago, IL.

FUSE 2014
We've just confirmed Phil Duncan, Global Design Officer at Procter & Gamble as well as speakers from Kimberly Clark, Gilt Groupe, Associated Press, Starwood Hotels, Johnson & Johnson, Target and more. I can promise FUSE 2014 will be well attended, provocative and a meaningful use of your time.

FUSE HISTORY
Past speakers read like a "who's who" of the brand and design world including Jonathan Adler, Ian Schrager, Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, Isaac Mizrahi, Milton Glaser, Karim Rashid, Malcolm Gladwell among others. Every year FUSE presents a range of perspectives from the world's most recognized brands (like Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola, Pepsi, 3M, Target & Nike to name a few) as well as more niche players like One Love Organics, Plum Organics, Bliss Spa and more.

david carson + kelly slater discuss fin placement. biarritz, france.

david and tinker hatfield (nike shoe designer) 2017.

david carson, ranked #9, #WSA, AAAA (pro division) #westernsurfingassociation. 1973. surfing nubreak at sunset cliffs. photo by #warrenbolster. #asymmetric 6.4 #infinitysurfboard shaped by #steveboehne.

david with richard kenvin, hydrodynamica srfbbds,

david redesigning Surfer magazine, dana point calif. foto by art brewer

davids srfbd model from infinity surfboards. logo by peter spacek.

dc and Tomo, davids porch,2015.

dc and bob mctavish, byron bay, 2014.

david carson + Carl Ekstrom

hamlet exploration click

design +surfer:dc foto ola, april 2013.

david was commissioned to design the 50th anniversary poster for Britains National Theatre. Oct.2013. limited edtion signed prints, 100 copies.

for purchase! signed copies

David Carson, Marshall McLuhan, and the End of Print (Again) »
Buzz Poole on David Carson's experimental typography, its continuing relevance, its wider cultural importance, and how Marshall McLuhan predicted it all. july 20,2012

What David Carson committed himself to was reading culture as it existed in technological frameworks that altered visual communication and short-circuited longstanding traditions of design and typography in order to fuse them to new and indifferent mediums that were no less effective in making their points.

quiksilver pro france/nyc web/fb site

DC site design and branding, quicksilver pro, france.

The Magazine Factory, London.2013.

The Magazine Factory, London. 2013.

david's speaks to a sold out crowd on monday, october 7th at portlands Design Week. david presentation is being sponsored by wieden+kennedy, and Plazm magazine.

click to see more

http://bearbooks.se/2015/07/23/10-omslag-till-ray-gun-
magazine-av-david-carson/

#DAVIDCARSON I saw your lecture in Essen, way back in the 90s, shortly after your leave from Ray Gun, and that plus working as a trainee at Dirk Rudolph really kinda changed my course, for better or worse (ah no, for better, design is STILL a great job, at least for the ten seconds you can actually DO it). When I worked a lecturer for some eight years, I used much of your work to illustrate a certain point in design when emotion, intuition, personality reached a tipping point in creating artwork. From Tschicholds «invisible typographer» to RayGun . What kicked me into the direction was less the visual appeal of your work itself but the sheer wonderful pokerfacedness of it all. The «living» covers, the CocteauTwins-spread, stories ending on the cover. You made fairly clear that it wasn't about kicking letters to and fro, but about seizing the moment, having fun, fucking minds. Bringing yourself to the table and demanding playtime. Plus, the whole quitting-the-dream-job-coz-the-editor-didn't-like-my-Bowie-cover? I was (and still am) so in love with that ballsy way of sticking to your guns. Recently had a nice talk with a friend and we both agreed that it's time to get that feeling back into current design - not the LOOK, but that kinda fuck-it-all-drive and energy your work had, that mix of naivety and pitch-perfect feeling for composition.

So, yeah - me = fanboy, one of the many. Was a great kick to talk to you at the Typo Berlin backstage .....

hd, germany
august 2013.

david was asked to judge the 2012 prestigious
Successful Design Awards in china.

Asian logo/branding for new upscale
womans clothing line. 2013.

japan web site,2013.

new logo design,
latin america.2013/

SURFportugal august 2012.illustration :george bates

kover,monster children magazine, australia.

david suggested+designed this xmas catalog kover, originally called 'the ultimate fleece guide" dec.2013.

motrin tv commercial

david garza video, "discoball world"

part of a series of work for fox broadcasting

world wide end tag for citibank commercials

web site proposals for quiksilver pro new york

The Creativity 50,
david selected as "one of the top 50 creative people in america over the past 20 years",
by Creativity Magazine, NYC.2006

http://www.adcritic.com/creativity20/50.php
Creativity Magazine 20th Anniversary- David Carson, a former professional surfer who studied sociology at San Diego State, rode his quirky art direction of magazines like Beach Culture, Ray Gun his style is "intuitive," he says, "I'm self-taught" to the pinnacle of the design world, amassing media accolades like "The most famous designer on the planet" and "art director of the era." His first book, The End of Print, with Lewis Blackwell (1995, revised 2000) is the top-selling graphic design book of all time, having sold more than 200,000 copies in five languages. That book title was somewhat prophetic, it seems; in recent years Carson, via David Carson Design, with offices in New York and Charleston, S.C., has launched a career as a film director, having become "fascinated by moving images," as he puts it, with commercials and branding projects for clients like Lucent, Microsoft, Quiksilver and Armani, as well as music videos for Nine Inch Nails and other bands. He says (on the nature of creativity): "All work needs to be personal it's where the best work comes from, and it's the only way to do something truly unique. Nobody else can pull from your background, upbringing, parents or life experiences. The best work is always the most self-indulgent. Do what you love and the passion will show."

mgm studios/hollywood web site

tv end tag for nyquil

Notes: -View new Video interview on David Carson on
http://hillmancurtis.com/artist-series/david-carson/

David, Just watched your interview on Hillman Curtis website. Really put me back on track. So much has been lost in the design industry. The love and respect for such an amazing trade. I have a difficult time because I am not constintly surrounding myself by other designers. But that is not the answer after watching your video. Its who I am and the life I live. Anyways I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate what you had to say. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Ben

Guts. . poster for madfest, amsterdam, 2015.

dcd design for amsterdam Madfest, 2015. guts.

david, carribbean front yard, dec. 11, 2014.

9.11
immediately following the events of september 11, few things seemed more
unimportant and meaningless than doing graphic design. (well maybe
WRITING about graphic design).
but as time passes it is important to again do what one loves and is passionate about, and hopefully
find ways to help make the world a little better place to be in.
grafik design DID help determine the
outcome of our last presidential election, while some groups use it to help promote cigerette smoking, guns and racism.
only YOU can decide where YOU draw the line…-dc