type 2: David Carson – TED Talk

David Carson is known as the “grunge typographer.” In the 1990s, as creator of the Ray Gun magazine, he created new and energetic typographic layouts that broke the mold of traditional typography.

This is what I took away from David Carson’s TED Talk (https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_carson):

1) On mistaking legibility for communication: “Just because it’s legible doesn’t mean it communicates…doesn’t mean it communicates the right thing.”

 

2) On living in a technically driven world: “The importance of people becomes more than it’s ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that. Nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. If you allow that to happen, it’s really the only way you can do some unique work and you’re going to enjoy the work a lot more as well.”

3) On the graphic design profession and choosing between serif and sans serif fonts: “Not real life threatening. Why not experiment, why not have some fun? Why not put some of yourself in the work?”