My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I’d be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don’t think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at. David Carson Read Quote
Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody – part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of the accepted rules of design. David Carson Read Quote
When I first started my graphic design career, and ‘Beach Culture’ magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was hard to get people to take you seriously. David Carson Read Quote
I was teaching, which I didn’t love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching. David Carson Read Quote
I think I work much the same way I always have. I’m trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I’m reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like. David Carson Read Quote
I tend not to have a ton of clients at any one time, but some pretty interesting ones. David Carson Read Quote
When I work as an art director, I don’t ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic idea, and then I say, ‘Send it to me, it’ll be fine’ – I get out of the way. David Carson Read Quote
When I first redesigned the ‘Surfer’ magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and – surprise surprise – he hated it. David Carson Read Quote
I’m experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there’s little risk in that. David Carson Read Quote
