Graphic Designers

David Carson

David Carson is best known for his innovative experimental typography he used when being a graphic designer. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun, in which he employed much of the typographic and layout style for which he is known. His work was best known as the 'grunge typography' which was aesthetically pleasing to a wide audience.

Carson was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun, an alternative music and lifestyle magazine that debuted in 1992. Ray Gun is known for being a very artistic and different magazine design, which almost gives the effect as if it looks handmade.

In 1995, Carson left Ray Gun to found his own studio, David Carson Design, in New York City. Carson was doing work for Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban (orbs project), Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, NBC, American Airlines and Levi Strauss Jeans, and later worked for a variety of new clients, including AT&T Corporation, British Airways, Kodak, Lycra, Packard Bell, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, Warner Bros.,

CNN, Cuervo Gold, Johnson AIDS Foundation, MTV Global, Princo, Lotus Software, Fox TV, Nissan, quiksilver, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, MGM Studios and Nine Inch Nails

The reason as to why I have chosen Carson as my favourable graphic designer is because his style would work well with any genre of music, which fits to my idea of a mainstream magazine with different genres. His colour palettes differ, which means they have a versatile edge, making it unique but different, as it has the same context (music).

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