david carson

David Carson (born September 8, 1954) is an American graphic designer, art director and surfer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun, in which he employed much of the typographic and layout style for which he is known. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era.David also has a very famous piece of work using pepsi as a way to present text in a modern way I had a go at recreating his work in photo shop using a modern pepsi cup I thought this worked well it also ties into my work as Carson is also known for the way he uses text from newspapers I have created many types like this my self in my sketch book and in my second sheet.

press prints

this is one of the templates i will use to make my press pints of the text i am going to make in the similar style of jaspa johns i thought these colours were more successful as it shows a good transitioning

jaspa johns letter style

after using ink to create my own versions of the jaspa Johns 0 through 9 i created a similar design using my stencils of letters i created in the last piece of work i thought this turned out quite well this gave me a idea to try the same style using press print as i think that would give a similar styles also i can create many of them

jaspa johns

i looked at jaspa johns as a artist i could relate my work to i liked the way he used numbers to design small pop art pieces with stencils i had a go at creating my own type of his work

smaller designs

after coming up with the bigger piece i thought i could use the smaller text to zoom in on i then took these smaller designs into photo shop and have created smaller logos using the smaller text from this

stencil work

 after doing work using cut out stencils of letters i came up with the ideas of having in washed in to my stencil to create the letter outline however this looked very plain so i decided to add cut out artical as a back ground by over lapping pages and pages and using the titles of the artical to stand out