David Carson Article #4

David Carson – Techniques in Design

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David Carson needs no introduction. Described by Creative Review magazine as "the most famous graphic designer on the planet", his first book, The End of Print, is the top selling graphic design book of all time.
Although graduating with a degree in sociology and starting his career as a teacher, a design course one summer holidays encouraged him to become a graphic designer. Today, Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front page article in The New York Times.
David's work continues to be subjective and largely driven by intuition. Carson remains a hands-on designer, keeping his studio small and mobile.
However, some of his working practices are quite unorthodox. For example, Carson’s just too busy designing to organise his files. And it’s your own personality showing through in your work, and the way you work, that can influence your designs, according to Carson. But technology and the new opportunities it provides the designer can also impact on design approach.
In this exclusive video, David Carson describes why QuarkXPress allows him to experiment with placement, fonts and style effects. Carson explains that he wants to focus on basic design decisions and why QuarkXPress is the easiest place that.

David Carson – A Designer’s Story

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David Carson needs no introduction. Described by Creative Review magazine as "the most famous graphic designer on the planet," his first book, The End of Print, is the top selling graphic design book of all time.
Although graduating with a degree in sociology and starting his career as a teacher, a design course one summer holiday encouraged him to become a graphic designer. Today his studio’s work has been recognized the New York Type Directors Club, the American Center for Design and I.D. to name but a few. Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine and a front page article in The New York Times.
David's work continues to be subjective and largely driven by intuition, with an emphasis on experimenting with ways to communicate in a variety of mediums. Carson remains a hands-on designer, keeping his studio small and mobile.
Watch exclusive video content on how graphic design made sense to him. Listen to him define graphic design and describe how different his first experience of desktop publishing was to the way technology has changed the way a designer approaches their work today. Would Carson even have started out in graphic design if he’d known the important role technology would play? And if you’re just starting out in design, Carson describes what he thinks makes a good designer – is having a good eye enough?