David Carson
Jeff Booth - Profile of a Shy Surfer
Surfer Magazine (Re-design #2, August) 1992
Pre-Press Matchprint / Chromalin Proof
Signed 'David Carson' lower left
Production Instruction (to crop image at 'no charge') lower left
12 x 18 ins / 31 x 46 cms
Unframed
Verso
Inscribed (by Carson) 'Surfer Magazine, 2nd issue of re-design'
Production notation '11:35 7/30 RD'
Literature
The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson, by Lewis Blackwell. Laurence King Publishing, 1995, Illustrated p.72
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David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. Arguably the most influential graphic designer of the nineties, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined an era.
After the collapse of Beach Culture magazine, Carson was asked by its parent company, Surfer Publications, to re-design it's flagship title Surfer magazine. Carson worked on Surfer magazine between 1991 and 1992. Lewis Blackwell wrote of Carson's time at Surfer magazine (The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson) 'The redesign gave him the opportunity to apply his radical approach to a fairly conservative magazine, stripping away the staid conventions of a 33-year-old title that was working to a 1970s design. While he struggled to get his ideas adopted at the time, it is notable that elements of his work have since been copied across the surfing press'.
