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Carson was born on September 8, 1955, in Corpus Christi, Texas. [ 1] Graduating from Rolling Hills High School, [ 2] he continued his education and graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. [ 2] Carson surfed professionally before finding employment with magazine Self and Musician. [ 1]
Ray Gun was an American alternative rock-and-roll magazine, first published in 1992 in Santa Monica, California.Led by founding publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett, art director David Carson and executive editor Randy Bookasta, along with founding editor Neil Feineman, Ray Gun explored experimental magazine typographic design and unique angles on the pop cultural currents of the 1990s.
A 1959 poster for the Gewerbemuseum Basel. The International Typographic Style is a systemic approach to graphic design that emerged during the 1930s – 1950s but continued to develop internationally. It is considered the basis of the Swiss style. [1] [2] It expanded on and formalized the modernist typographic innovations of the 1920s that ...
Helvetica. (film) Helvetica is a 2007 American independent feature-length documentary film about typography and graphic design, centered on the Helvetica typeface. Directed by Gary Hustwit, it was released in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the typeface's introduction in 1957 and is considered the first of the Design Trilogy by ...
Swiss style (also Swiss school or Swiss design) is a trend in graphic design, formed in the 1950s–1960s under the influence of such phenomena as the International Typographic Style, Russian Constructivism, the tradition of the Bauhaus school, the International Style, and classical modernism. [ 1][ 2] The Swiss style is associated with the ...
While woodblock printing and movable type had precedents in East Asia, typography in the Western world developed after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. The initial spread of printing throughout Germany and Italy led to the enduring legacy and continued use of blackletter, roman, and italic types .
The style was sometimes called 'grunge typography' when used outside music. [134] [135] [136] A famous example of 'grunge'-style experimental design was Ray Gun magazine, art directed by David Carson. [137] [138]
Zapf Essentials is an update to the Zapf Dingbats family which consists of 6 symbol-encoded fonts categorized in Arrows One (black arrows), Arrows Two (white arrows, patterned arrows), Communication (pointing fingers, communication devices), Markers (squares, triangles, circles, ticks, hearts, crosses, check marks, leaves), Office (pen, clock, currency, scissors, hand), Ornaments (flowers ...