David Carson

David Carson is an American Graphic Designer, art director and surfer. His designs include posters, album covers and magazines - including 'Ray Gun, which was a music magazine.

While working on 'Ray Gun' he was well known to use typefaces like dingbats, which is a symbol only typeface, which meant having no legibility. His reasoning behind this was due to a boring interview with 'Bryan Ferry'.

He is known to be very experimental with typography, often breaking the boundaries of legibility often using letters of words to make an interesting image. He rarely uses a grid system in his work.

Although he uses loose layouts in type he still plays with type size to add hiarchy in his work. The poster above has a 'cut out' paper look to the text, like it was from a magazine. He has also played with the ledding. Even the angle of the photograph is not following the rules of photography, the camera is looking downwards, allowing the viewer to focus down to the type.  The overall look of the poster has punk elements to it, going against society.