gracefield

david carson

David Carson’s design work is really distinctive. When I flipped through his book “trek”, I was confused.

Those distorted type, organic, unorganized lines, shapes, and blurry out of focus images ran though the whole book. He seemed to discard all the design disciplines, and make design a self-exploring and self-expressive creation. His type seemed arbitrary and random— never intends to be legible or reader-friendly at all. His images are usually overlapped and “raw” (like fresh out from camera, and never bother to make them neat looking).

Is that so make him an influential designer? If design could be this random and self-expressive approach, what’s the point of rigid school training?

posted by wshihwen @ 2:22 PM