David Carson is an American graphic designer known for his unconventional layouts and experimental typography. He got his start designing magazines in the late 1980s and has since designed for a wide variety of clients across advertising, branding, and publishing. Carson is considered a pioneer in graphic design for bringing emotion and visual experimentation to layouts.

1. DAVID CARSON Lara Tanner Digital Grid Systems May 11, 2010

2. GRAPHIC DESIGNER …born in texas, raised in new york… majored in sociology… taught high school… ranked as 9th best surfer in the world in 1989… first design jobs were for surf and skateboard magazines… art direction at ray gun magazine brought him worldwide attention… deconstructive layouts featured distorted typefaces and fractured imagery… used dingbat font for article he deemed boring… called the “father of grunge”… advises “don’t mistake legibility for communication”…believes in the emotion of design D A I V D C A R S O N

4. Cover of the Year, Society of Publication Designers in New York.

5. Award of Best Use of Photography in Graphic Design

6. Designer of the Year 1998, International Center of Photography

7. Designer of the Year 1999, International Center of Photography

8. Master of Typography, Graphics magazine (NY)

9. The most famous graphic designer on the planet, April 2004 - London Creative Review magazine (London)

11. MAGAZINES

12. MAGAZINES

13. MAGAZINES

14. MAGAZINES – RAY GUN

15. MAGAZINES – RAY GUN

16. MAGAZINES – RAY GUN

17. MAGAZINES – RAY GUN “Boring” article set entirely in Zapf Dingbats

18. POSTERS Aspen Design Conference U of Cincinnati Lecture

19. POSTERS Workshop and lecture in Venice Political symposium

20. POSTERS Barack Obama Presidential Campaign

21. POSTERS ‘Helvetica’ the movie

22. POSTERS Atlantic Center for the Arts Le Book conference

23. ADVERTISING Kodak Ray Ban

24. ADVERTISING

25. ADVERTISING Cougar Paper Company Chevy Camaro

26. ADVERTISING Suicide Girls brochure Samsung

27. BRANDING AND LOGO DESIGN

28. PRODUCT DESIGN

29. BOOKS

30. BOOKS