By Kirti Bansal
“DON’T MISTAKE LEGIBILITY FOR COMMUNICATION”-DAVID CARSON
Rules are made to be followed, correct? No. According to surfer-turned-designer David Carson rules are meant to be broken – not followed. Carson’s explorations in the alternative rock and roll magazine Ray Gun pushed boundaries so far it brought catastrophically pleasing results. The peak of David Carson’s career commenced with his most recognized work in Beach Culture while art directing a surfing magazine. His creative and radical contributions to the realm of graphic and communication design fabricated relatively extreme results. Carson’s unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s.
In the years prior to his career, American designer David Carson could be seen surfing tidal waves of the beaches in San Diego, California while maintaining a high school teacher career job. The influence of his talent can be traced to a short commercial design class he had enrolled in. Later working as a designer at a small surfer magazine, Self and Musician where his experiments truly initiated.
A painter in disguise some would say- David Carson practiced communicative typographic structures the way an artist used paint to create expressive compositions. Carson often extracted ordinary items for his composition layering them with text, though often illegible to the viewer, within, beside, over, and under the image. A handwritten quality while, at other times, strict typewriter font types was his choice with a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. Carson tested the boundaries of typography, having typed lines run into each other, cross gutters or be upside-down. He layered type and image until neither was distinguishable on the page and co...
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...thin the graphic design industry. Designers and those with interest in the graphic arts are drawn to his pieces and overall style. Carson’s impact on the design community is apparent in his design style as well as in his ability to share his talent and knowledge with others through his books. The American Center of Design has featured multiple works by Carson in its yearly show. In 1996, it determined that the new work by Carson was “the most important work in this year’s show”. A London-based publication called his work “the most important work coming out of America” and named him “Art Director of the Era”. Carson later went on to become the Creative Director of Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and currently owns David Carson Design where he is chief designer. He now owns two personal design studios and still creates his signature style designs to this day.
David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. is one of the lesser known inventors. He’s the designer that made the heating system for the spectacular Radio Music Hall and Rockefeller Center in New York City. Crosthwait was born on May 27, 1898, Nashville, Tennessee and died on February 25, West Lafayette, Indiana. He went to school and grew up in Kansas city, Missouri. His parents, David Nelson and Minnie Harris supported him in his early life well. Crosthwait excels in math and science. He was accepted to Purdue University and graduate at the young age of 15 in 1913 with a B.S in engineering. C.A Dunham Company immediately hired him as a researcher engineer for the company with his skill.
Noticing a few illustrated boards under the arms of some local gromits, and having recovered the use of his arm, Drew looked for the creator of these boards in hope of finding a job. Directed to the San Clemente Surf Company, it was here Drew first met local shaper Matt Biolos. Shortly after he was hired, Drew convinced Matt to let him run his shop while he was on a business trip in China. Given free reign of the shop, Drew went wild, creating fantastic and beautiful illustrations of sunsets ,surf and sun gods. Drew’s boards flew off the shelves and stared the ...lost surfboard craze.
David Berkowitz unleashed his random malicious scats during the summer of 1976. He is known today as one of New York’s most notorious serial killers. Berkowitz was born on June 1st, 1953 in New York, New York. He was adopted by the Berkowitz couple a few days after his birth. When Berkowitz was 18 the joined the U.S. Army. After the army, he got a job as a security officer and moved into an apartment in New York. No one even noticed the danger that slept next door.
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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” ― Richard Wright, Black Boy this is a quote from the famous Richard Wright an African American author. This quote means that no matter what was placed in his way or what he lacked that others had he hung on to what he had and did what he could. And the more he read about the world, the more he longed to see it and make a permanent break from the Jim Crow South. "I want my life to count for something," he told a friend. Richard Wright wanted to make a difference in the world and a difference he did make. Richard Wright was an important figure in American History because he stood astride the midsection of his time period as a battering ram, paving the way for many black writers who followed him, these writers were Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, John Williams. In some ways he helped change the American society.
In 1989, Andrew Goldstein was admitted to a psychiatric hospital from a physical altercation with his mother; there he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. In 1999, Andrew Goldstein, at a New York subway killed Kendra Webdale by pushing her into an oncoming train. Three weeks before the fatal altercation with Kendra Webdale, Andrew Goldstein was released, after committing himself to a New York hospital. Goldstein committed himself into the hospital due to “severe schizophrenia” (Frontline, A Case of Insanity). Even though the hospital, that Goldstein was released from, noted in their records that Goldstein was described as “thought-disordered,” “delusional,” and “psychotic” (Frontline) nonetheless, he was still release and referred to an outpatient therapy, after less than a month of being there.
Some may ask why do we design? What actually makes our design work? When a designer can produce effortlessly the goal of design has been achieved. This is a universal principle and is not limited to neither digital media, handcraft nor with any other design method. Within today’s era, typography has come a long way in regards to its development and the technologies used for it. Aside from this things are still developing, however, some things will always remain the same. “Words in art are words. Letters in art are letters. Writing in art is writing” – Ad Reinhardt (1966) (Morley 2007: p6)
MAIN NAME SHEET David Carson was born in Texas in the United States. Many of his design influences have come from his early childhood while travelling around America, Puerto Rico and the West Indies. His first significant exposure to graphic design education came as part of a three-week workshop in Switzerland, where the Swiss graphic designer Hans-Rudolph Lutz influenced him. He then worked in a high school near San Diego from 1982 to 1987. During this time he also carried highly experimental graphic design as the art director of the magazine Transworld Skateboarding. Among his abilities of art directing, graphic designing and film directing, he was also a professional surfer. His immense interest in the surfing culture persuaded him to return to the West Coast where he helped launch the magazine Beach Culture. The magazine only lasted three years but Carson’s pioneering approach to design, particularly toward typography challenged the fundamental aspects of all design and graphic communication. SURFER SHEET Carson’s work was often arresting and powerfully communicative. From 1991 to 1992 he worked on Surfer magazine. The straightforward styling of the covers was a strong contrast to the later "How" magazine covers. Here you could associate with Carson as his unique use of typography filled each cover to give an interesting introduction to the contents. After this came his break into an international profile when he helped launch Raygun magazine, ...
For centuries, war has broken families and caused scarring both physical and mental. Consequently, the futility of war has been universally accepted and Bruce Dawes powerful poems ‘Weapons Training’ and ‘Homecoming’ reveal this. Dawe creates an Australian insight to the training and consequences of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long conflict Beginning in 1954 and ending in 1975. More than 3 million people were killed in the tragic War. Dawes ‘Weapons Training’ demonstrates the guidance of an abusive Sergeant whilst ‘Homecoming’ illustrates the shocking consequences and impact of war. Bruce Dawes powerful war poems, paired together, showcase a journey. One filled with harsh and vulgar training whilst the other proves that even training
Although Wright and Olmsted created successful designs using different mediums, they both have helped to change the way that contemporary designers approach health and wellness as a focus in their own designs.
"Gravity-defying", "fragmentary" and "revolutionary" are a few of the words used to describe Zaha Hadid's architectural designs. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect has stirred up continual controversy with her designs that defy a label in the Modern vs. Post-Modern architectural debate. In the past 15 years, she has gone from unknown student to "architecture's new diva" as the title of the January 1996 Architectural DigestUs profile suggested. Her work has been accepted as a significant contribution to architecture and her style is one that other architects now emulate.
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Browning is particularly well-known for this above-mentioned technique. On the surface level, his writing is trivi...
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‘You cannot hold a design in your hand. It is not a thing. It is a process. A system. A way of thinking.’ Bob Gill, Graphic Design as a Second Language.