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January 4th, 2009 — 9:59pm
Category: Typography
30 inspiring type treatments
December 13th, 2008 — 8:46pm
Design Legends - David Carson
November 22nd, 2008 — 8:22am
“David Carson became renowned for his inventive graphics in the 1990s. Having worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s, he art directed various music, skateboarding and surfing magazines through the 1980s.
As art director of surfing and style magazine Ray Gun (1992-5), Carson came to worldwide attention. His layouts featured distortions or mixes of ‘vernacular’ typefaces and fractured imagery, rendering them almost illegible.
Indeed, his maxim of the ‘end of print’ questioned the role of type in the emergent age of digital design, following on from California New Wave and coinciding with experiments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In the later 1990s he shifted from ’surf subculture’ to corporate work for Nike, Levis, and Citibank”
Illustration - personal
November 8th, 2008 — 8:03am
Illustration by Imaginary Design
About the Autor
Adam Koniuszewski / Imaginary Design is a graphic artist and freelance graphic designer based in Manchester, UK www.imaginarydesign.co.uk
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Book design
November 4th, 2008 — 7:19am
Book design inspired by “Cinnamon Shops” by Bruno Shulz / Personal project
Bruno Schulz (1892 – 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century.