Graphic design: Use your eye not the rules!

Dave Carson talks about graphic design and the secret to his own success: his own eye and audience awareness.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• design
• layout
• graphics

[robbiebalboa]

hell no, it wouldn't hurt to have decent ability to sketch, but if you have an understanding of who you want to target then hey you can be a graphic designer.

the whole myth of graphic design as beng drawing is a load of crud, it's about simlifying unreabale shit and turning it into something that someone that doesn't know the alphabet can read.

BOTTOM LINE IT'S ABOUT GIVING THE VIEWER AN EXPERIENCE

[pixelsin]

And who decides what is "Right"...

[BeachBallEffect]

When grunge started getting into Web Design, I blamed Dave Carson.

[factumDiabolus]

1:30 sooo fuckin true! Many times I'm a bitch to that voice in the back of my head.

[sookmo]

"Doing what makes sense!" True so very true...

[Hartsema]

I believe his interpretation about "the rules" as in the sentence "know the rules before you can break them" is wrong. I think he would have understood better if the sentence was; Know aesthetics so you can break the rules. Cause basicly what he is saying is that he was just experimenting. And he was obviously getting to know the rules of aesthetics while he was working with them. It isn't a profession to see what works or doesn't. It's a profession to make it work

[Hartsema]

I believe his interpretation about "the rules" as in the sentence "know the rules before you can break them" is wrong. I think he would have understood better if the sentence was; Know aesthetics so you can break the rules. Cause basicly what he is saying is that he was just experimenting. And he was obviously getting to know the rules of aesthetics while he was working with them. It isn't a profession to see what works or doesn't. It's a profession to make it work

[berLinyes]

hey  Great

[nextmarvel]

Heck yeah! Couldn't agree more

[bazookoidben]

I always found art to be such a generic term anyway. What is art but a word for an entire culture? I suppose its the way we think, we always need guidance to start, but we can clearly see throughout history that there have been artistic movements when the rules have been thrown out the window in order to provide something with substance art/design require life as well the effort to make them function. Sometimes we need to ignore the rules to give our own work the spark of 'life'.

[bazookoidben]

Personally I dont consider Carson's work to be garbage, be ran Ray Gun from 94 to 99, a good set of years for a graphic design journal.

While I will agree some of his work is somewhat obscure, and maybe a little difficult to follow its all down to do with a certain way of understanding the rules of design. Carson understands the rules, and that is why he chooses, not to break them, but in an odd way not follow them, but still (in my mind) provide a very thought provoking result.