David Carson

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  David Carson

Born September 8th, 1952 an American graphic designer. He was well known throughout the nineties. It was around 1983 when he first started to experiment with graphic designs and found he had a certain knack for it. He became the art director for a popular magazine Raygun, and created his own typography. He also created his own magazine about surfing, for in 1989 he qualified as the 9th best surfer in the world, the magazine was called ‘Beach’ being a popular surfer really made this magazine popular. Carson work made a huge impact to the world and the people even called his work the grunge era.

Image anaysis.

• Mainly black and white image, but has used brown dull colours.
  Silhouette of man with close up of their hand.
• A lot of writing.
• Writing has different font sizes, appears to be the same style but small font quite difficult to read.
• A really grainy image.
• Quite hard to read at the top.
• A quick breif on the front page.
• Simple but really effective, grabs your attention.

• Clear bold title.
• Colours are sepia.
• Singer as main focus at the bottom of the page in the left corner.
• Writing which is an article on the cover page is in the right corner, opposite to the singer.
• Quite an empty front cover, slightly dull.

• Black and white image, with slight hint of brown on the man.
• Silhouette of the back of a man.
• Simple plain image.
• Empty, lots of space.
• The writing apperas to be following the man, his shadow.
• Writing hard to read, spaced out and different sizes.