The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson by Lewis Blackwell

The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson Reviews

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  Hannah Jo Parker

  I was inspired to read this book after seeing David Carson in the documentary film Helvetica. I loved his assertion that you can't assume something communicates just because it's legible.
  
  This book was my lunch buddy for a couple of weeks as I studied its contents. I was uplifted every day by the notion that you can throw out all the rules and succeed beautifully.
  
  The End of Print provides plenty of examples of Carson's exciting approach to graphic design, including one of my favorites mentioned in Helvetica. He was once asked to lay out a magazine article about Bryan Ferry. Carson read the interview and felt it covered no new ground. He tried setting the text in every single typeface he had installed on his computer at the time, working his way through the alphabetical listing until he got to the last one. So, he set the entire story in Zapf Dingbats and the magazine printed it that way. My hero!
  
  Early in his graphic design career, Carson worked at a skateboard magazine that allowed him to experiment. During this time, Carson learned to question any formal preconception. Now, thanks to this book, I'm doing more of that myself.
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  Kevin

  It was interesting to revisit this 25 years after I found myself living in Carson's design world
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  Kim M-M

  Anything that David Carson touches turns to golden chaos. He is the edge, of the cutting and '
  Born to be Wild' is probably his anthem. The bane of art teachers everywhere, there is a freedom in his style flies in the face of reason.
  ... I can't remember what this book is about though, all i remember is the graphics :)
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  Mads

  In my past life I was a graphic and layout artist for magazines. All because I was puttering around a bookstore and my eye caught a weird magazine cover. The cover was by David Carson and the magazine was RAYGUN. It was the start of an obsession. I believe that Carson revolutionized how magazines are designed, although his critics disagree.
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  Inggita

  the book from the bad boy of typography himself. the out-of-the-design-box guru. the "king of non-communication." this book actually belongs to Abang Edwin - i'm just listing it here because it's one from a groundbreaking designer.
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  Tom

  I loved this designer in the 90's. Looking upon his stuff now, it seems so dated. Probably because he was so imitated that it obliterated his work. This is what I'll probably say of Rex Ray's work in another decade.
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  bitchrepublic

  classic for designers/design students
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  Chandra

  how broken type accepted.. graphic design in wider view
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  Amber

  I'm a graphic designer In school I had to do a report on a designer and David Carson was the one I picked out of the hat. I never heard of him before the project.
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  Tony

  David Carson killed print so we can re-make it better.
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  Erica

  It's like searching for easter eggs reading this book...and every time you open it, the eggs have been re-hidden. Love.
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  James Obando

  Great overview of David Carson's work, daring and inspiring!
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  Stephen Conti

  self-proclaimed god.... don't understand why everyone gets a hardon over this guy...
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  Cheryl

  Expanding my design world