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David Carson

• Former professional surfer, in which he was ranked number nine in the world
• BFA degree in sociology San Diego University
• Principle and Chief designer of David Carson Deign
• His work has been featured in over 180 magazines and newspaper articles around the world.
• His first book 'The End of Print" (forward by David Byrne) is the top selling Graphic Design book, selling over 200 000 copies.
• His other books include 2nd sight, fotografiks, TREK and The book of Probs with Marshal McLuhan
• Art Director of the McLuhan estate 
• Lectures all around the world, and also teachers a week long workshop at the school of Visual arts in NYC each summer.
• Master of typography
• Past five years he has branched out into film and television to direct commercials and videos.
• Davids' work is subjective and largely driven by intuition, with an emphasis on reading materials before designing it, and experimenting with ways to communicate in a variety of mediums.
• most important things a designer should remember? (Carson's answer)

who is the audience, what is that audiences's visual language, what type of things are they seeing? how can you communicate and reinforce visually what is written or spoken and how can you stand out from the competition in that particular field?

• Advice to other designers...

Do what you love, trust your gut, your instincts and intuition and remember the definition of a good job: If you could afford to, if money wasn't an issue, would you do the same work? If you would would, you've got a great job! If you wouldn't, what's the point?


Neville Brody

• born in London
• studied Graphic Design at the London College of Printing and Hornsley School of Art
• Came into public eye through his record cover designs and involvement in the British Independent music scene in the early 80s
• Internationally renowned designer, typographer, art director and brand strategist.
• Founder of the Research studios network.
• Lecturing and contributing to a variety of cultural and educational activies
• art director at Fetish Records
• experimented with a mixture of visual and architectural elements, to put these ideas into practice in 1981 - 1986 through his innovation styling of The Face Magazine.
• public acclaim through ideas on incorporating and combing typefaces into designs.
• He has designed his own typefaces
• referred to as a "star typographer"