Wednesday, February 20, 2008

David Carson - Typography


I thought his type of art is really interesting.  His explanation on  how you can bring a group of people of the street and have them listen to a piece of music, and 9/10 would have the 'expected interpretation' and 1 would have an interpretation that meant something to them.  I agree that a meaningful interpretation can only come when it has personally inspired you, rather then going with what you think the right answer is, even if it is outside-the-box.  I also enjoyed how he took a boring article and used his skills with typography to make a spread.  The underlining story was still there, but a more interesting focus was brought on with the lettering he used.  I could tell from the clip that he was not the type to go by guidelines, but was creative on his own and does his artwork with his own unique style.  The typography art that we saw was interesting and a new type of art that I hadn't really thought about until we saw this clip =)

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