David Carson

Like Neville Brody, typographer and graphic designer David Carson became influential in the late 1980's and 1990s for experimental typeface designs. David Carson's designs were featured heavily in surfing and skateboarding magazines. David Carson broke most of the rules of design and typography, a process that was made easy with the use of desk top publishing programs, such as PageMaker, and Illustrator. He experimented with overlapping and distorted fonts and mixed these with striking photographic images. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun which was first published in 1992 in California. Through Ray Gun Carson created new boundaries in magazine publishing. He abandoned the usual conventions of the grid system and ignored the acceptable usage of columns, headlines and even page numbers. I think his style which is chaotic and abstract in the extreme, often unreadable,is always visually exciting.since i'm a graphic designer I could use his techniques and apply them to my own.

http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/