Legacy

After the invention computer, there are many software are developed such as Fontographer (1986), QuarkXPress(1986), and Adobe Illustrator(1986-1987) for visual presentation and information that could easily incorporate and manipulate both text and image.However, the rise of virtual also started to demolish the traditional printed materials by post modernist artist who inclined to toward devaluation of all value such as the value of authenticity.

The new digital also allowed David Carson to deconstruct his art works, in suppose new visual language. He also abandoned the clean and sharp look of font. Not only that, David Caron as a post modernist,he uses the Grunge font in his design such as Ray Gun Magazine.William Gibson also describe David Carson's work:

" the event horizon of futurity, as close as any windshield, its textures mapped in channel zap and sequential decay of images faxed and refaxed into illegibility.his brave new world abraded onto the concrete of now. This is design pushing back against against the onslaught of an unthinkable present."

David Carson, in the sense of aesthetics, has been dubbed as "post alphabetic aesthetics". His design was chaotic, abstract, and illegible. From the magazine cover that designed by him, he has experimented a lot on typography with image. David Carson has explored the essence of the font , layout and the visual served his design as "post alphabetic aesthetics" 

References Link:

http://guity-novin.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-graphic-design-dead.html