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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.”


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


FILM PREMIERE

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FILM PREMIERE
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Screening #1
 
After a year and a half of filming, traveling, editing, and stressing, the World Premiere of Helvetica happened last night at SXSW in Austin. A sellout crowd of 450 packed into the Austin Convention Center for the film and a post-screening Q&A with David Carson and I (below). The audience was great, and although the evening is still sort of a blur for me, from the amount of laughs and applause we got it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the film.
(150 people had to be turned away )


dc and director gary hustwit at world premeiere of Helvetica.


Video interview on David Carson

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Notes:
-View new Video interview on David Carson on
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/ carson.php

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


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