David Carson's design principle

There are some of the David Carson's art works has brought up his own style of design principle. As a designer, everyone must has his/her own design principle and always stick to it. As result, designer has more his /her own space to create new "look" and catch attention of audience. With the design principle, the design only belong to his/her that represent his/her attitude toward the design.

Here are some examples that show up David Carson' characteristic in term of design.
Trek Cover:

Trek Cover
Link: http://www.chadneuman.com/publishedclips/images/david_carson.jpg

-colorful, chaotic environment,
-the numerous layer, typeface, splashing colors in the cover has created extremely balances although it is not looking balanced when all the design elements are combined together.

Another sample that show up his characteristics too:
Factory Magazine, London:

Magazine Factory
link:http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/img/mini/magazinefactory_4.jpg

David Carson is using the new type of subject matter in the magazine cover that he designed.

He add ocean or the blue wave and combined together with typography which gives a great visual impact to the audience to grab their attention.

References Link: 

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/

Post Structuralism

David Carson and post structuralism have the indirect relationship between both of them in term of design as David Carson is should be deconstructionist. At the same time, there are educators, philosophers appear to be dismissive of deconstructionist and post structuralism as long as they have associated with the theory of post modernism.

Deconstruction is how an artist try to express out their feeling. In addition, concept or text are one of the essential tools which cannot be deny to help them express. A deconstruction reader attends to suppress tension or conflicts within the text and treat all the natural categories. There is similarities between deconstruction and post structuralism is both of them reject the sense "real" has affect the position of philosophers who share the view that the object and meaning that constitute our existential " reality" are social construction.

Charlene Spretnak (1999) has offered caricature of post scholarship as below:
"The critical orientation known as deconstruction post modernism, constructionism, or constructivism asserts that there is nothing but social construction (for example, language,knowledge system,and culture) in human experience. The philosopher core of deconstruction post modernism is rejection of any sense of real.  

References link:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/education/downloads/Gough_Price_SAJEE_final.pdf

Grunge Style

Grunge- what is grunge?

 - is not necessary consist of " grungey" design
 - it can be clean cut or combine with one or two grunge aspect and throw them together to make the design interesting and attractive
 - dirty texture and background is almost essential in a grunge style.
 - irregular lines and frames, off center composition make it visually balance
 - subjects such as torn paper, coffee rings/ stain, doodles/ hand written element make the layout in interesting way rather than a plain or equal theme of background
 -subdued, dirty, dull color
- Haphazard and chaotic

David Carson had influenced grunge style in design trends of the 90's.
-He design movement can be considered as grunge but also classified as post modern.
-His design seems to be approached in unorganized but they are actually very organize and balance in terms of design theory.
-the spelling mistake also intentionally.

References:
http://prezi.com/b99iw1v4zwlo/david-carson/

Random

Nicole Togneri, presenter of Marlborough Fine Art has claimed that the work of David Carson appeals to younger audience. He knows much about " now". Although he still commands tremendous amount of respect from his fellow designers, it is debatable whether Carson's work would considered by them to be anything remotely resembling "cutting edge".

Immaculee Conception 2001, is both a found poster as well as experimental surface for Carson's overprint of red-inked typographic form

The screen print plays upon what might be read as provocative juxtaposition of David Carson's name with an engraving of French mid-19th century Madonna, enshrined by plump cherubs was another interesting pieces in the show.

reference:
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/t/2002/05/19/branding/

Post Modernism

David Carson, the most influential graphic design has leading design era to another realm--- Post modernism. He is also the significance of post modernism.

Post modernism--a cultural movement that more rigid, inflexible and irrelevant.In other hand, it can be defined as a cultural, intellectual or artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or organizing principle and embodying extreme complexity, contradiction, ambiguity and diversity. It is opposite the theory of modernism.

From the work of David Carson is clearly showed the Post Modernism, he has found a new way to express his idea and thought instead using traditional way. He is not teach by traditional art and design method before,therefore he has more freedom to illustrate. He can find his own rhythm , movement , or emotion and create it in his own composition but not overdoing. From the magazine layout, either the new element he created or the composition he used always make the audience unexpected.

His typography has reveal the post modernism characteristic : he is mixed the serif and sans serif letter forms to come out a hybrid fonts with the abstracted shapes.  He also breaks the traditional grid rules when he arranged the position of the font in layout magazines.

References :

http://postmodern-art.com/

Critique

There are people who interested on David Carson design and admired his creativity that boost up new, fresh look in design field. But yet, there are also a number of people do not agree with his grunge style design element and make them feel uncomfortable when looking into it.


So, what they feel when they looking at David Carson design?

-they feel hard to read the article
-it will divert the design student when they follow the grunge style that invent by him
-is impossible to be radical when cooperate with big company like "Nike" , "Microsoft"
-sometimes it might spoil the spread as too complicated

David Carson & Deconstruction

When I research about David Carson,  I found that there are some relationship between his design and deconstruction.

Here are some introduction about Deconstruction
-this concept is introduced by Jacques Derrida
-it is not focus on the themes but rather on the linguistic and institutional system that appear on the production  
 of text
- it also affected many field either music, art, architecture, typography and others
-there are two principle appear in the deconstruction: the first principle is people think and express their
 idea or feeling in opposite terms. For example: positive and negative. Next principle is if there are no second
 the first will always not recognize by others. The second is always support the first

 Therefore, in design field, deconstruction is appeared for designer have more space to express their
 creativity and explore their style in design. David Carson, as a successful typographer have achieve the   deconstruction style in his art work.

Here are some question pop up from my mind:
1. how David Carson art works and deconstruction related?
    - David Carson's typography?
    - His own design theory and deconstruction theory?

2.Can David Carson be proved as deconstruction?
    -it might not clarify as deconstructionist
    -maybe he only come out his own style with his own thought

3 Is there any common point between David Carson design and the Deconstruction?
   -characteristic of both design?

References link:
-http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/handle/193096/1/W46_2002WhiteheadLydiaE.pdf

-http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/conferences/cd_donotopen/adc/final_paper/551.pdf