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To: David Carson <dcarson@earthlink.net>
Subject: flash forward
david,
earlier this year, i hired a couple of digital guys from arnold in boston to come work for me. they just attended flash forward and heard you speak and said you were very inspiring. thought you might like to know, they thought you were the highlight of the conference : )
peace,
mark
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richard kenvin , swift surfboards, and dc, check out the new simmons
influenced
twin fin richard has been testing and developing . san diego, sept 2008.
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Subject: Inspiration
Hi David, Thanks for accepting my friendship. I know you have no idea who I am. You have been a huge inspiration to me as a designer. When I was in design school I saw you speak at Tulsa University. I was having a tough time in school and really questioning whether I wanted to be a designer at all. I spoke with you after your talk. You were very encouraging and inspiring. I still have the poster you designed hung in my office from your talk. 13 years later and it still inspires me. Thanks for all you have done to challenge the way people look at things. Keep up the great work.
Charles
sept.02.08
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from the current UK issue of MacUser magazine. jul.22 08
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david lectures in zurich june 16th and london june 18, 2008.
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david is looking for 'YOUR rules of design' for possible inclusion in new book.
please send you personal rules, ones you use in your work, to: dcarson@earthlink.net
subject: rules.
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2008, news update
its been a busy and good 2008,
starting with:
david,
march 21, 2008.
kgb, front yard...
foto: skip jones
david,
march 21, 2008.
kgb, front yard...
foto: skip jones
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dc's wayne lynch shaped quiver. tortola'09
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Sent: Jul 23, 2008 3:14 PM
To: dcarson@earthlink.net
Subject: Thank you DC
Hello David,
I just wanted to send you my congratulations! Congrats on being the rule breaker in this stiff world of Graphic Design. I graduated from Cal State University Long Beach in 2003. As a Fine Art student, I took the "emphasis" in Graphic Arts as a way to potentially pay the bills. I had a tough time in college, constantly fighting with my Vivacious Fine Art side against the Rigid Grid-lined Design side presented by Professors at the time. You became my excuse for putting type/design outside of the grid and therefore helped me find that balance between fine art and design. You incorporate both and you are very successful at it. I am very awed at the fact that you are able to retain your free flowing "aloha" spirit in your lifestyle and artwork. I hope to one day achieve this. Thank you for breaking the rules and for continuing to to what you love without self sacrificing your spirit.
Marsinah
Los Angeles, California
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spreads from Ortlos Architechure dcd designed book.
Greetings,
Inspired design student wondering how Mr. Carson went from high school teacher to culture changing icon. ŽÊWhat happened to change your career path. I'm trapped in corporate America and aspire to create with subjective freedom.
Short answer desired, I know you're busy and would be honored to receive a response and won't be deraired if I don't.
Thank you for you work Mr. Carson, you have made a believer out of us all.
Brent
Nebraska surfer and designer optimist
Lincoln Ne.
july 22,2008
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after ringing in the new year with luke and luci,
dc headed to kane garden bay in tortola
to catch the first swell of the new year.
then, after a quik check in at his Del Mar diggs,
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art/sign by the amazing janet albornoz
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it was on to london to film the i-lovedesign
interviews. from there, to linz, austria for a public lecture.
this 2009 'cultural city of eruope' host and former home
of pure evil whose parents are now "buried close by".
after a packed lecture and fine dinner, it was back to the new
zurich studio, before heading to a lecture and workshop in
riga,latvia. a very successful workshop followed, as did fine
company,dinners and hosts. thank you latvian art directors club
and especially zane.
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back to zurich before heading to konstance, germany for a
public lecture at the dialed in design school there. fotos tk.
back to zurich, then to Stockholm,Sweden for a week workshop and
crowded public lecture. plans are underway for a summer workshop....
great hosts,dinner.drinks, friendly and talented students and teachers at forsbergs college of design.
special thanks to pia, calle, the students, and sandra !
and then a Stockholm meeting with laurie haycock Makela to
discuss, and later toast, a new project between dc and Laurie.
laurie , the former head and
instructor and designer at cranbrook, and much. much more........
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back to swissland for some snowboarding, before heading to Basel, Switzerland for a lecture at
the infamous design college there. (also the one that banned dc from appearing on its campus in the early 90's..)
after a crowded lecture and great dinner, dc was invited to conduct an upcoming workshop at the Basel campus.
details TBA.
then back to zurich to continue new work for samsung, bark paddleboards,
the Dali museum in st. Petersburg, LOAB, sucide girls, Wolfgang Bloch, fujifilm and assorted book and broadcast projects.
dc ended February by returning to new york to judge the one show, the premier worldwide advertising and design awards
show from NYC.
david also attended lukes thursday nite basketball game......possibly the highlight of a hectic, fun 2 months on the road and
in the world.
- 2008, news update month 2 |
tortola floor, jan.04.08.
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the salvador dali museum in st. petersburg has commissioned david to rebrand the entire new building that will house the largest collection of dali's work. david will be responsible for all signage, graphics , broadcast and identity work.
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david is in zurich to open his new european studio,
dcd studio Zurich
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/carson-goes-swiss/
go here to order cool original dolls:
http://www.gruesli.com
luke+luci got'em : )
Subject: re: dcd newsletter
Date: Jun 15, 2007 12:58 PM
Hey David,
good luck with the new studios. I hope you will be coming to Montreal soon. I would very much like to meet the person that inspired me to become a designer. You had a big impact on me and I owe a lot to you.
take care,
Pascal |
"David Carson continues to be one of the world's most distinctive
typographic voices--
much imitated, but never matched,"_ Ellen Lupton, ID MAG judge, june 2005
I.D. Magazine 2005 Annual Design Review
TREK
David Carson's retrospective of his past five years, Trek features photography, film, and Web-based projects that shift between personal and commercial. Uniting the content is Carson's distinctively fragmented and layered compositional approach: One example, a photograph of a sun-bleached shack and a notice board that reads "Carson Design inc," is adorned with graphic sunbursts, leaving the reader to wonder how much of the image is real and how much constructed. The jurors commended the fluid, free-associative feel. "David Carson continues to be one of the world's most distinctive typographic voices--much imitated, but never matched," Lupton said. She added that the book, which is published by Gingko Press, "effectively presents Carson' own work in his own style. That could be too much of a good thing, but in this case, it's just right."
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"Elsewhere in this issue, David Carson constructs a set of wet, dreamy illusions from scrap and grahix. Out of the lab that was SURFER magazine in the late 1980s, Carson sprung onto the back of the mainstream avant-garde(oxymoron?) where he succeeded beyond anyone's expectations but his own. A surfer first beyond other personas, which in his target client New York media circles is a tres chic way to be precieved. Carsons spreads in this issue are more wallpaper installations than article, a stylized homage to his undying passion for wave riding. Even if you look closely, you might guess that its all a scam,
a la Dora, and one well pulled at that. Well, is it, or not?
Not for David. He stands on principle, damn the torpedoes.
-Steve Pezman
look for davids foto essay in the NOVEMBER issue of "surfers journal" magazine
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FILM PREMIERE
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Screening #1
After a year and a half of filming, traveling, editing, and stressing, the World Premiere of Helvetica happened last night at SXSW in Austin. A sellout crowd of 450 packed into the Austin Convention Center for the film and a post-screening Q&A with David Carson and I (below). The audience was great, and although the evening is still sort of a blur for me, from the amount of laughs and applause we got it seemed like everyone really enjoyed the film.
(150 people had to be turned away )
dc and director gary hustwit at world premeiere of Helvetica.
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Notes:
-View new Video interview on David Carson on
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/ carson.php
David,
Just watched your interview on Hillman Curtis website.
Really put me back on track. So much has been lost in the design industry. The love and respect for such an amazing trade. I have a difficult time because I am not constintly surrounding myself by other designers. But that is not the answer after watching your video. Its who I am and the life I live.
Anyways I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate what you had to say.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Ben |
from aspen mag
lava flow, tortola. 2006.
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luke, times square,
nyc taxi, 1.8.07
folly beach office, 2007
new years day email check spot, tortola
work in progress, follyt beach studio
comin intonyc, jan 8th,2007
DC Named to Most Influential list
Graphic Design USA magazine(NYC) recently listed the "most influential graphic designers of the era" David was listed as one of the top 5 most influential designers, with milton glaser, paul rand, saul bass and massimo vignelli.
new york city, jan.8th 07
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