David Carson

Born in Texas, Carson started teaching in 1982-1987 and began experimenting with graphic design. "I've always felt I make my living from my hobby." Not only has been awarded for various different acheivments and has created a range of different designs for magazines and television, he has also written books about design. Carson's work has been feautured in over 180 magazines and newspapers world wide.

Personally I love how Carson manages to manipulate, twist and distort text and photography. His experiments with the broken imagery and weird typography that is difficult to read is one of the reasons why I like his work. You can clearly tell that his designs has infact influenced the work of the graphic designers of today. Raygun issue #3

The magazine cover Raygun issue number 3 is an odd design. It comprises of the title 'Raygun' at the top in bold black letters on a white background.Underneath there is an image of girl wearing black with her hand on her cheek. The odd part about it is that she is upside down, yet the rest of the magazine's titles are all the right way up. I'm not quite sure about the effect aimed here, but I'm pretty sure this magazine would stand out on a rack full of other magazines. The bottom left hand corner of the letter 'R' in the title Raygun looks as if it's been chopped off. The black letters of the title merge with the black top the girl is wearing in the foreground. The varying font size in the sub headings is ingenious because they keep decreasing in size, getting smaller at the bottom. I think the use of colours or lack in this case is effective as he has chosen opposite colours, black and white.
More of David Carson's Raygun magazine covers

David Carson Interview - LAYERS MAGAZINE I found some useful information in the article above from Layers Magazine, the link to this article is in the 'USEFUL WEBSITES' section of my blog.