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the End of Print (Again)

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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.


DC Named to Most Influential list, BEST OF SHOW

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lettering david did for opening of new quiksilver hdqrtrs in france
may 27, 2010

 
 

DC Named to Most Influential list
 
Graphic Design USA magazine(NYC) recently listed the “Most influential graphic designers of the era” David was listed as one of the top 5 most influential designers, along with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.
 
 
BEST OF SHOW
David Carson Design
Partnership for Drug Free America – TV spot
David Carson , Director
ADDY Awards :
I didn’t realize that this was David Carson’s work when we watched it the first time. The typography wasn’t the thing that caused me to enjoy it. It was just a novel way to do a very “tired” subject. It caused me to think about things in a different way and that’s what made it good. Very clever solution.
This spot had it all…killer art direction, amazing broadcast design, and most importantly, a powerful concept. It did what all those “Parents…the anti-drug” spots are trying to do, but failing miserably: Tell you exactly what you as a parent can do to help your child. And as it turns out, it’s a pretty simple thing to do. Moving, compelling, and persuasive.

 


Guardian Gives Shape To Obama’s Words

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Guardian Gives Shape To Obama’s Words
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/guardian-gives-shape-to-
obamas-words/
RE: guardian cover poster.
with this poster you feel that this guy is really really different you can almost touch the “change”
it’s different from all the other posters with there bright colors and the promise that everything is gonna be just fine !!
you are different MR Carson
that’s what i love about you
-Ahmed Galal wrote at 10:39am, 01.19.09


DC Named to Most Influential list

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DC Named to Most Influential list
 
Graphic Design USA magazine(NYC) recently listed the “Most influential graphic designers of the era” David was listed as one of the top 5 most influential designers, along with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.


I.D. Magazine 2005 Annual Design Review

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“David Carson continues to be one of the world’s most distinctive
typographic voices–
much imitated, but never matched,”_ Ellen Lupton, ID MAG judge, june 2005
 
I.D. Magazine 2005 Annual Design Review
TREK
David Carson’s retrospective of his past five years, Trek features photography, film, and Web-based projects that shift between personal and commercial. Uniting the content is Carson’s distinctively fragmented and layered compositional approach: One example, a photograph of a sun-bleached shack and a notice board that reads “Carson Design inc,” is adorned with graphic sunbursts, leaving the reader to wonder how much of the image is real and how much constructed. The jurors commended the fluid, free-associative feel. “David Carson continues to be one of the world’s most distinctive typographic voices–much imitated, but never matched,” Lupton said. She added that the book, which is published by Gingko Press, “effectively presents Carson’ own work in his own style. That could be too much of a good thing, but in this case, it’s just right.”