Hi David, I’m from South Africa and study Information/graphic design. I have always had an interest in typography and the experimental element of it, but ever since I discovered your work, talent and inspirational approach, my eyes have opened!!! wow! thank you for changing the face of typography for the world! I am, without a doubt, one of your new biggest fans!! I am excited to read your books and follow your work! I am inspired. feb.15,2012
n e w s :
david has been invited to judge the D+AD awards in london this spring,’11,
celebrating the best worldwide design and advertising for ’10.
following recent lectures in nyc + phil.(PENN) next up: argentina+new zealand, vancouver.
upcoming:
davids exhibition in PARIS , spring 2011
watch for dc’s new
TVcommerical,as CD,
for B.headphones
davids recently designed architecture book,
PATTERNS by p.anderson+d.salomon (Harvard, Cornell)
is now available at better book stores.
david has been invited to judge the D+AD awards in london this spring,’11,
celebrating the best worldwide design and advertising for ’10.
following recent lectures in nyc + phil.(PENN) next up: argentina+new zealand, vancouver.
upcoming:
davids exhibition in PARIS , spring 2011
watch for dc’s new
TVcommerical,as CD,
for B.headphones
davids recently designed architecture book,
PATTERNS by p.anderson+d.salomon (Harvard, Cornell)
is now available at better book stores.
UoPENN.print DC results 11.11/10
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“Hi David,
I went to your talk in London, your print is currently hanging proud in my living room.
Thanks again for a great seminar.”.
-Nash
Date: Jun 25, 2008 7:02 AM
Hi David,
I just wanted to thankyou for the seminar in riverside studios, london last week, it was very inspiring and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Up until that point I had worked for two different councils in Wales (uk) producing print graphics. There were no promotion prospects within the councils and graphics opportunities are generally very limited or very competitive in the uk, so I had decided to retrain in town and country planning (more money!) and had more or less given up on my graphics/illustration career.
But your talk has inspired me, by demonstrating innovative and original artwork, emphasising the need to concentrate on the smallest design details and also made me realise that I actually enjoy illustrating (I don’t look at the clock when Im doing it!). So I’ve decided to concentrate my efforts on freelance illustration, and see where that takes me. Fingers crossed!
Thanks again.
Jon.
p.s. Maybe a graphic design rule could be; “Never, no matter what the reason, use comic sans”?!?
p.p.s. Theres some very cheap digital projectors on the market!
Subject: Your London talk, 18 June 2008
Date: Jun 22, 2008 5:50 PM
Hi David,
I saw you speak at the Riverside in Hammersmith last week.
It gave me the push I needed for a project I’m working on – I’m a freelancer currently designing a book for a London Council. They have not allowed nearly enough time for the design work but I want it to be really good, especially as it’s going out to help kids, so I have been doing a lot of extra hours for free to make it special.
After a lot of tiring, working-round-the-clock, my enthusiasm was beginning to wane and I was thinking, “I’ll go to this lecture, then get back and just bang out the rest of the design to finally get it finished”. Your lecture inspired me to keep going and produce something really cool, instead of just what was expected.
When you have short deadlines and conservative clients it is easy to forget to enjoy it and play with design but your talk was just the tonic I needed to inspire me again. Thank you.
I hope you speak again in London soon. The slides flying around the place was a particularly cool touch ;)
Best wishes,
sue
Date: Jun 23, 2008 11:24 AM
Hi David
Just wanted to say thank you for a great slideshow last week – flying slides and dance beat from the slide machine included. I really enjoyed it and you have given me a new vigour for my work at a time when my clients had been driving me to insanity… Thank you again, and when you are next in London I will happily come see the same slideshow – or take you out and show you the hidden London by night that few tourists see – rather than the inside of your hotel bar.
Rob
Dear David,
I just wanted to write on behalf of my students to say how much we enjoyed your seminar on Wednesday evening 18th June at the Riverside Studios. There were 17 of us including 4 staff and we loved your desktop! (Was this intentional?!)
We had to leave on mass and I just wanted you to know that the mass exodus wasn’t a protest we just had to catch our ride home into the wild depths of Hampshire.
If you ever fancy popping by Farnborough College of Technology to talk to the students about design we would love it. We looking forward to owning ‘The Rules of Graphic Design’ when it comes out later this year (we hope!)
Kind regards
Ken
Dear Mr. Carson,
i hope you had a good stay in london last week and it was in the same way so inspiring for the people there like for me here in Zurich.
All the best,
Michael
Date: Jun 24, 2008 12:45 PM
Hi David,
I attended your talk on the Rules of graphic Design last Wednesday, which was extremely enlightening and highly refreshing (our desktops look the same! – its not just me!).
At the end of your talk you was selling signed prints, in which I was very interested in however only had my credit card. I would absolutely love one so it I can frame it and put it in our studio to look upon in times of desperate inspiration!.
I was wondering if you had any left that I could purchase? Kind Regards David,
Tom
Hey David,
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your seminar in london a few weeks back.
I flew over from Ireland for it and it was worth it in spite of the technical difficulties!
just wanted to say thank you for proving that design can be fun!
eric,
ireland,
july 28,’08
hi david
i attended your seminar in june at the riverside studios which i thoroughly enjoyed. years ago,as someone who’d just come out of secretarial college, i’d stare at your ray gun layouts thinking “what is this?” but be totally enthralled by what was going on over the pages. i left my job as a receptionist at a travel agency – after two weeks – and found myself a job working in a publishing house as a pa. after hours i’d head down to the studio and make a nuisance of myself until eventually they had to give me a job. on weekends, i’d often find myself back at the bookshop, looking at raygun. and now i work as a graphic designer. my first purchase, when i moved to london, was the end of print.
thank you for not learning all the things you’re not supposed to do.
claire
london 080808
Hi David
I saw your presentation in Zurich on Monday 16 June. I wanted to thank you for giving me one of your Obama posters it really made my day and I’m still absolutely stoked by your kindness and generosity. We spoke briefly about New Zealand (as that’s where I come from) and you mentioned you had thought about going there.. here’s a photo of a break close to where I live in Taranaki.. wicked, eh? ;-) You should definitely visit..
Cheers
Bridgette
dc, paul mcCartney and others donate art. www.sasdrawingboards.co.uk
Subject: Surfers Against Sewage – Drawing Boards site now live
The Drawing Boards website is now live at www.sasdrawingboards.co.uk
Subject: Surfers Against Sewage – Drawing Boards site now live
The Drawing Boards website is now live at www.sasdrawingboards.co.uk
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.
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.
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………
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………
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
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
Ten leading artists, designer and musicians have joined forces to put on an exhibition of surfboard art to raise money for SAS.
They ‘ve each painted a full-size longboard, and the resulting artworks will go on show around the country in an exhibition called ‘longlife’, in collaboration with Oxbow UK.
The ten contributors include contemporary artist Damien Hirst, cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (who created Tank Girl and Gorillaz), graffitti artist Banksy, big-wave legend Laird Hamilton, comedian and actor Paul Kaye (aka Dennis Pennis), rock bands A and The Aphex Twin, and graphic designer David Carson (who helped create Raygun and Beach Culture, and revamped Surfer Magazine in the early ’90s).
At the end of the tour the boards will be auctioned, with all the proceeds going to the SAS campaign for clean seas. Some of the artworks are expected to fetch phenomenal prices; a painting by Damien Hirst on canvas, similar to board design he’s contributed, recently fetched £84,000.
The board were shaped by Chops Lascelles at the Laminations factoly in Cornwall and they’re all fully functional mals…although their eventual owners are unlikely to be jetting off to Hawaii with them.
The launch party of the exhibition was held at the Spitz Gallery in London in April, and the tour will visit six other galleries before winding up the closing party in Newquay in August. -SB
LONGLIFE EXHIBITION SHOWS
1-12 May Spitz Gallery, London Spitalfields Market,109 Commercial Street, London
15-22 May The Department Store Gallery, Manchester, 61 Thomas Street, Manchester
27-30 may The Workstation, Sheffield, Paternoster Rows, Sheffields
4-12 June Roadmender Gallery, Northampton, 1 Lady’s Lane, Northampton
18-25 June Plymouth Arts Centre, 38 Looe Street, Plymouth
11-15 July BAG Gallery, Brighton, 108a Dyke Road, Seven Dials Junction, Brighton
26 July-2 Aug Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 45 Preston Street, Exeter
16 Aug Closing party, Newquay The Koola Bar, Beach Road, Newquay
* to bid on David’s Surf Board go to: http://www.oxbow-longlife.com/ AUCTION section
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