POSTMODERNISM GRAPHIC DESIGN:
DAVID CARSON is a graphic designer, art director and surfer. his work for the magazines beach culture and ray gun in the 1990s brought a new approach to type and page design breaking with traditional layout systems. he continues to explore the possibilities of graphic design, particularly typography as a form of expression across print and video for both commercial and cultural clients.
POSTMODERN GRAPHIC DESIGN IS ABOUT THE DECONSTRUCTION OF SPACE AND ALIGNMENT, THE INPUT OF POP CULTURE (WHICH CAN SOMETIMES STIR CONTROVERSY), GENERAL ABANDONMENT OF RULES. MORE APPLYING TO A MIX AND MATCH OF STYLES. IT IS A LOT MORE FREE IN IT'S APPROACH, AND A LOT MORE EXPRESSIVE.
DAVID CARSON ON RAY GUN MAGAZINE:
"Ray gun magazine january 1995 – ray gun had no grid, formula or format, letting the music and individual articles dictate the direction of the design and layout. every page was an entirely new design assignment, making it a lot more work than most magazines, but also a lot more fun, and I believe with more effective results . with this cover the editor had given me a few cover lines including one about keith richards coming clean about sex, drugs, rock and roll etc. I looked at this portrait and realized you really didn’t need to say anything else, the landscape of his face said it all. often a hotly debated topic of editors, many believing a menu of everything in the issue on the cover is best, others have rules about where the cover lines NEED to be. it turned out this cover, with NO cover lines, was our biggest selling issue – funny, we thought keith looked ancient THEN."
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The same free level of expression is a style and approach I shall adopt in my design, with perhaps an added depth of controversy.
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