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new york type directs club

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david spoke to a sold out crowd at the new york type directs club, april 23,2014.

 

 

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 speaks at SXSW austin, texas,

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david speaks at SXSW austin, texas, march 15. 09.

davids topic and panel was “is spec work evil?” more response to come, heres the first:
 
David
God bless you for the comments you made on the spec work panel. I owe you a drink.
Sean
LA, Calif.
 
Hi David,
saw your panel on sxsw and thought you were right on – just wanted to let you know we are changing our future design contests to not allow for logos and such to try and keep our contests more pure. Appreciated your presentation.
I live in Laguna Niguel and surf trestles quite a bit – would be fun to surf with you one day ;)
Sincerely,
Marc
 
Mr. Carson:
I made the mistake of watching this clip right before bed!
Thank you for bringing a voice of reason to this topic. Unbelievable. I had a feeling the jokers from web sites that are making money from spec might disagree with you, but I was shocked that the woman from AIGA seemed unsure of AIGA’s spec work policy. She seemed to say, “we think it’s wrong, but maybe we are wrong. What say you?”
And thank you also for not wearing your bathrobe to the discussion.
Tony


david lecture at TED

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here david lecture at TED (http://TED.COM/)

Hi David
 
Just wanted to thank you for giving such an inspiring TED talk.
 
I’ve been passing on the link to everyone I know. Your point about putting yourself into the work resonated greatly.
 
It led me to change the world the best way I know how. One day (and one song) at a time.
 
You can see how at http://boscutti.com/
 
Mille grazie
 
Stefano
 
>Sent: Jan 19, 2009 5:06 PM
>To: dcarson@earthlink.net
>Subject: David /Probes/World’s Most Creative (And Dangerous) Quote Book
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>Dear David,                                                   January 19, 2009
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>What an insane world.  Today in Richmond, Virginia I just  discovered David Carson…no not the 2009 David Carson, the 2003 TED.com one (He was funny and entertaining.)  I’m sure the older one is even more creative and funny.  I discovered Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, and Edward de Bono when I taught in Edinburgh, Scotland as the only male teacher in a school for girls.
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>I became a teacher and writer because of being inspired by Ray Bradbury.  Years ago he came to Richmond and let me walk with him through the Poe Museum–Poe was his inspiration.  (He’s 89 and, even after a stroke in 1999, still writing.)
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>My design heroes are Alan Fletcher, Ross Lovegrove, Mirko Llic, Milton Glaser, Tom Kelly, and now, David Carson.  I hadn’t heard of you until today, but I’ve been reading and cutting pages out of RayGun for years until it was sadly gone.
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>I know I’m using Verdana (sounds like vanilla)…I don’t know much about this field.
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>I’m retired from the chalk mines to full-time writing.  (I loved teaching.)   Go to
>www.knowords.com and see my first design for sale. My new book, The World’s Most Creative (And Dangerous) Quote Book; it opens in the middle and turns into two separate books.   I’ve had 100 pages of photographs and a book cover sold.   Great eye not connected to great hand
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>As a retired teacher and new writer, I’m broke.    I know you’ve been there in your life; it sucks.   It’s the first time for me and I hope the last time.   Only creative me would be trying to sell a book to a major publisher by way of blurbs from famous people like Bradbury, followed by getting an agent, then the publisher, in this economy.   It’s a shame I didn’t hang out with Dean Kamen as a kid or have a $6,000.  TED ticket to hang out with rich and famous creative people for four days.   My book comes with  left-brain and right-brain wristbands, a bookmark, and a small poster of the 2nd cover.   I have over 200 quote books; none like my book.   I haven’t bought a book in over 3 months, but the first book I’ll buy when I’m back on my feet, is The Book of Probes -Marshall McLuhan.   In those 200 quote books are a few McLuhan quotes.   I have a few in my book.  Your illustrative talents and Marshall McLuhan’s way with word should have been a best seller.
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>I like the way you spoke of imagination and creativity at TED.    As a teacher I received two major teacher awards, kids and most parents loved me, the janitors and cooks loved me, and most teachers loved me, and principals were always trying to figure out a way to get rid of me.   My classroom looked like 24 back issues of RayGun and a few illustrations from How and Wired.
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>In the back of my new creativity book in the Creatography, I am adding David Carson under Best Creative Designers and under Creative Products I’m adding the book, The Book of Probes-Marshall McLuhan edited by David Carson.
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>May 2009 be a great wave.
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>N. Wylie Jones


typoberlin

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david at typoberlin, may 18th, 06.
sponsored by fontshop
photo by bastard.project.com



Sent: May 26, 2006 4:55 AM
To: dcarson@earthlink.net
Subject: typeradio
 
Dear David Carson,
 
I just wanted to let you know that we enjoyed interviewing you at TypoBerlin for Typeradio very much. We are very pleased you had time for a little chat.
 
After some editing (no more than cutting it in workable pieces and taking out some glitches and coughs), the interview will be put on this website for everybody to download and/or listen to direct:
 
http://www.typeradio.org/loudblog/
 
i will let you know when the interview is online.
 
thanks again and kind regards on behalf of Typeradio,
 
Donald Beekman
 
[DBXL]
 www.typeradio.org
www.dbxl.nl


Toronto 05

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Toronto 05
 
hey dave,
 
i was just at your workshop yesterday,(one of the guys who went to pizza with you at lunch…the one with the tattoos) and i forgot to bring a logo that i designed for myself to be critiqued. i’d appreciate it if you could tell me what you think/give some feedback. (i’ve attached it) also i really enjoyed your workshop. eventhough it wasn’t the full two days, i felt like i got everything that i wanted to get out of it. i also had a fun time. it also got me thinking about school, and what to take from it. i feel like i can create much more creative things for projects now, even if we ‘have’ to use a grid. maybe you could come and talk at our college some time. (it’s algonquin college, in ottawa ontario.)
anyway, thanks alot
-dave sept 05′
 
ps. i also made those changes that you suggested to my work, because i am not handing it in until wednesday. it looks alot better.

David,
 
Thanks for a great day at the Toronto workshop. It was great to trade eyes with someone whose style is such a polar opposite to mine.
 
I was the fellow who talked about differences between Germany and USA etc.
My site is at
www.gregjudelman.com
… all very neat and organized! ;)
 
Looking forward to exploring the frontiers of simple and exciting, not simple and boring.
 
Surf’s up!
 
Greg
 
ps – i forgot to mention, next time you are in Toronto you must buy music at Soundscapes (572 College Street)
http://umbrellamusic.com/utu.php?id=41
…and ring me up for a beer
 
thanx 4 replying
 
well I’m actually from saudi arabia and at the moment I’m studying visual communication in dubai. i think its cool that at the midst of all this political bs happening between americans and arabs, two people can make a connection based on art and respect. i think that if both sides would open their eyes, and minds they would realize that we are more alike than we think. and actually celebrate our differences insted of kill eachother over them. ahhhhhhh…i could go on but i wont. our cynical world it seems has no more room idealism.
 
so back to business, i liked the short clip u had posted on your site. did u ever think of making kind of like an experimental dvd…kind of with the same ideas of your books? like a videobook? i don’t even know what that means.
 
hines

david,
 
although a little slow in responding to you, i was prompted to email after seeing my face ..and laura’s face on your website from the toronto workshop. wow, what an honour!
 
i would like to say a great big thank you for an amazing and extremely inspiring day for us (we are the 2 sitting eagerly on the front row!). it was a HUGELY significant time of envisioning and has evoked dormant dreams to surface again.
 
thank you for providing creative direction and your feedback of our work was truly welcomed.
 
so much so, i have just returned from new orleans, helping out with disaster relief. i was able to document my time and be inspired by the paradox of seeing visual beauty in amongst such huge devastation.
 
yours very much inspired, jo nov.1,2005