david carson

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striped cotton shirt Comme Des Garçons shirt x A$ap nast Ray Gun #9, september 1993, art direction by David Carson Ray Gun #27, june / july 1995, art direction by David Carson Ray Gun #6, may 1993, art direction by David Carson Ray Gun #30, october 1995, art direction by David Carson

 

interview

by Olivier Zahm

portrait by Ben Taylor

 

On his first Apple in California, graphic design legend David Carson broke the rules — Beach Culture (1991), Ray Gun (1992–95) — with a raw, anti-modernist free style that inspired Purple’s beginnings. typography became noise, rebellion, pure feeling. thirty years later, we ask the man who surfed cultural chaos: can graphic design still shake…