I like the style that David Carson utilizes in his work. He breaks lots of “rules” in the graphic design world and causes you to look at his work a little deeper. He is a huge inspiration for how I would like to be able to think and design one day. I think that he pushes limits and find extremely creative ways to portray what he is saying. There is one thing on his website that is a small scrip and in all the words only the first and last letter are in the right place and the text says something about how the Cambridge University did a study about how the human brain does not read out each letter it reads it as a whole. It was nearly just as easy to read compared to if it were spelled correctly. He has done amazing work for everything from Surfer Magazine, SKATEboarding, SNOWboarding, Nike to CD covers, Chevy Camaro, Giorgio Armani, Bank of Montreal, and U.C.L.A. He can cover pretty the needs of any type of industry. I think I also have this different relation to liking him because he has had a similar lifestyle to mine in the sense that he is a local surfer to San Diego and stayed here to attend school at SDSU.
This is a poster Carson created for an exhibit he was holding in Bern, Switzerland.
He designed the cover of the Bush’s 1994 album Sixteen Stone.
This is one of very many Surfer and other action sports magazine covers he designed.
