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David Carson – Techniques in Design

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David Carson needs no introduction. Described by Creative Review magazine as "the most famous graphic designer on the planet", his first book, The End of Print, is the top selling graphic design book of all time.

Although graduating with a degree in sociology and starting his career as a teacher, a design course one summer holidays encouraged him to become a graphic designer. Today, Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front page article in The New York Times.

David's work continues to be subjective and largely driven by intuition. Carson remains a hands-on designer, keeping his studio small and mobile.

However, some of his working practices are quite unorthodox. For example, Carson’s just too busy designing to organise his files. And it’s your own personality showing through in your work, and the way you work, that can influence your designs, according to Carson. But technology and the new opportunities it provides the designer can also impact on design approach.

In this exclusive video, David Carson describes why QuarkXPress allows him to experiment with placement, fonts and style effects. Carson explains that he wants to focus on basic design decisions and why QuarkXPress is the easiest place that.

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14 comments posted on "David Carson – Techniques in Design"

mariaax posted 17 days ago
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makako Hi there I think and agree that CS is better too.
makako posted 2 Oct 2009
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no doubt, cs netter than quark
FullemanGraphics posted 13 Jul 2009
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David Carson, obviously he knows what he's doing and does it well. From the change of art boards to computers, Quark has always been the software of choice. I does allow you to concentrate on the design and at the same time achieve the precision needed to finalize the job for the printers. We all have to wear so many different hats nowadays. I think Quark helps to make the overall piece a reality.
larissa posted 29 Jun 2009
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cool
Pixel posted 19 Sep 2008
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You need a capital N on The New York Times. Nice interview, by the way.
posted 14 May 2008
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I found some books David had written at http://www.gingkopress.com/_cata/_grap/fotograf.htm It's a great resource for design books. They also seem to be all available on Amazon too.
allgiggles1984 posted 30 Apr 2008
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haha My desktop is just like that too but I can go to a list so yup
hesketh posted 31 Mar 2008
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i loved quark for many years and i always looked forward to quark providing me with more drawing tools it never happened for me until CS and i forgot quark
SalFonZo posted 31 Mar 2008
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Indeed..... everything works in Qpress 7... a bit too slow though... and what about output??? dropshadows and eps?? indeed, nightmare!! looks like going back to bitmap! how many of you did NOT get the message " not enough memory to rasterize.." and not even with big documents!!! after years of believing in Quark, i think now is really the time to switch to CS!!! or can anyone convince me to hang on for a little bit more???
Petrella posted 26 Mar 2008
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wonderfully
amvrevo posted 21 Mar 2008
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I am bloody crazy I suppose, because I use Quark for my bookkeeping, stationary and my graphic design. I still use 4.11 because it works well for me. I also have 7, which does certain things well such as photoshop imports, opacity and PDF exporting. I like Xpert Scale in 4.11 - it works, whereas in 7 it is less user friendly. I am more emotive and intuitive and design best in Quark 4.11. Carson rocks. He always makes me smile. I look forward to working with him again, this time on my new book. Alan Messer, photographer.
xanadu posted 16 Mar 2008
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Drop shadows in Quark - great....... until you go to repro. Try overlaying them on a vector EPS. Nightmare.
em_____________ posted 14 Mar 2008
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this is the right spirit, I realy like how he show the normality of working in this sector
gyps posted 28 Feb 2008
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j'aimerais comprendre... sous-titre en français???