David Carson is an American graphic designer who is well known for using experimental typography and innovative magazine design.He also is one of the most influential graphic designer of the nineties.He was named "father of grunge",because using "dirty"type and non-mainstream is his signature style.
He is a controversial designer, some people crazy to admire him and follow his style ,but some are avoid his work like the plague ,and some are accused his work the "dirty"type.some paranoid person who's situation in traditional visual design field has sniffy attitude to his "non-professional" design. They accuse that his work violated the standards which experience formed for a long period by design industry.and they worry that the younger generation will lost in design because suffer his influence.During the time he was disputed , in one side , he was criticized by the senior designer who is entrenched design standard , on the other side ,he was accepted invitation of numerous of well-know media,and notification of gaining prize.it's a competition between the sensibility and rationality,but no standard can stop the realization of creative ideas.
Carson was doing work for Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban (orbs project), Nike, Microsoft,Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, NBC, American Airlines and Levi Strauss Jeans, and later worked for a variety of new clients, including AT&T, British Airways, Kodak, Lycra,Packard Bell, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, Warner Bros., CNN, Cuervo Gold, Johnson AIDS Foundation, MTV Global, Princo, Lotus Software, Fox TV, Nissan, quiksilver, Intel,Mercedes-Benz, MGM Studios and Nine Inch Nails. He, along with Tina Meyers, designed the "crowfiti" typeface used in the film The Crow: City of Angels. He acted as the original design consultant for the tourism magazine Blue in 1997. Christa Skinner art directed and designed the magazine.
This is <THE END OF PRINT;THE GRAPHIC DESIGN OF CARSON>, Carson's well known book,which has sold more than 125,000 in world.The book totally broke all the pretty neat design of before,no matter the layout , typographic,typeface or the colour of this book is really broke the the style before.it let design go a huge step towards a direction that design as you desire.
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