Wednesday, February 20, 2008

David Carson Continued Thoughts


I liked how he spoke about mess-ups working towards your advantage sometimes.  Experimenting and playing with it might lead you to do something out-of-the-box, but it lets you create something different.  I learned some ideas about taking anything you can from one image, such as the corner, and blowing it up to create more images or layering them onto the original until you make a more creative image.  The way he took the headline of about noise and used that concept to make the typography "noisy" was a good idea.  David has a good way of utilizing what he has, whether it be the postage stamp of the envelope or the writing style of someone else, and making art from it.  Another part of this clip I enjoyed was the altitude and attitude article.  He used repetition to establish the 'attitude' and the article in the shape of a steep snowboarding hill to illustrate 'altitude.'  David's creative methods of utilizing emotion from typography is inspiring.

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