Graphic Designers/Practitioners, their works, philosophy and influences - T and T assignment week 8

Today we don't have any T & T online class because it's Agung’s Birthday public holiday. However, we all have to do the assignment about graphic designers/practitioners, their works, philosophy and influences as this assignment are being taken as the attendance. All we need to do is choose one designer or practitioner from the video which is on either is Vimeo or YouTube and then watch the video along with produce the blog about the designer or practitioner that we chosen. So the designer or practitioners that I chosen in the video is David Carson from Hillman Curtis Artist Series in Vimeo. He is an American graphic designer and art director which is best known for his innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography and he is the art director of the Ray Gun magazine that he employed much of the typographic and layout approach. Soon David Carson was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun magazine, an alternative music and lifestyle magazine that debuted in 1992. He designed and art directed the magazine for over 3 years. Ray Gun helped make Carson well known and attracted new admirers to his work. In 1995, Carson left Ray Gun to found his own studio, David Carson Design, in New York City. He started to attract major clients from all over the United States. He named and designed the adventure lifestyle magazine Blue, in 1997. David designed the first issue and the first three covers. Carson's cover design for the first issue was selected as one of the top 40 magazine covers of all time by the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2004, Carson was the freelance Creative Director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. That year, he also designed the special "Exploration" edition of Surfing Magazine and directed a variety of TV commercials. Since 2010, Carson has lectured and held workshops and exhibitions across Europe, South America and the United States. He was invited to judge the European Design Awards in London in both 2010 and 2011 and was the keynote speaker of the Fuse branding conference in Chicago in 2014 and the international creativity festival in Dubai in 2015. Carson continues to lecture throughout the world. Carson has been featured in over 300 interviews/articles worldwide both digital and print. David Carson claims that his work is subjective, personal and very self indulgent. His layouts feature distortions or mixes of 'vernacular' typefaces and fractured imagery, rendering them almost illegible. Indeed, his maxim of the 'end of print' questioned the role of type in the emergent age of digital design, following on from California New Wave and coinciding with experiments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.