David CarsonDavid Carson was born 8th September 1952 in Texas in the United States. He is still alive today and he lives in New York. Carson studied sociology at the San Diego State University, Carson graduated in 1977. He is also a professional surfer.

In 1980 he had a look into graphic design through a summer school as he was a teacher up till 1987. He also attended a three week graphic course in Switzerland. This is where he found his imnfluence Hans-Rudelf Lutz. He went onto be an art director of Transworld skateboarding.


In 1988 Carson moved to Boston where he became an art director of a musician magazine. The year after this he moves back to the west cpast where he hleped launch a beach cultural magazine. He also designed for the 'New York Times' an'Ray Gun' but he left in 1995. Carson was also know for designing logos such as Pepsi, Nike, Levi, Microsoft, Budwiser and Giorgo Armani.

• The image looks like a silhouette but with a hint a brown within the black


• The text follows the shape of the image


• Carson use's different sizes of text


• Text seems to be going down in size with the larger text
  The letter D seems to have an odd shape at the end which I think makes it stand out
  It looks like he could have produced the text using mono printing as you can see patches of black around this design

I think this design stands out because of the use of different text sizewhich follows the image. This makes the text look like it is in the background and the image os in the foreground.

• This looks like it could be an advertisement for Nike as it has an image of the Nike logo


• It also has a image of a famous tennis player


• He use's a image of a trainer which I think makes it look like it is advertising


• The text is going down at an angle


• Carson use's capital letters


• He also use's different sized text


• The text and the image of the trainer forms a question mark

This is quiet a simple design as Carson has only used a few very small image and a build up og text which produces a question mark.

• This is the cover of RayGun
• Carson use's large text and works down in size
• It has a small image down at the bottom with the barcode above it
• The text looks like it has been produced by hand as it is not very neat
• Some of the text has only got the outline
• The issue number is in light blue which makes it stand out

This is a very simple design, most of the design is the textas that is the main part of it. It works down to a very small image which I think the text draws you down to the image.