David Carson Paper

My intro thus far:

David Carson is one of the best graphic designers of our generation. He’s American to boot—born in Texas! His highest reign was during the nineties, but he is still popular, influential, and going strong today.

David was born September 8, 1952 in Corpus Christi, Texas. But, the big, bad Texas didn’t get the Carson’s for long because they moved to New York City four years later. His father had a job that permitted them to travel the world. They visited places like Puerto Rico, the West Indies, and all over America—but they have maintained a base in New York.

He studied at San Diego State University and Oregon College of Commercial Art in the late 1970s to get a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. In 1980, he went to a graphic course at University of Arizona that lasted for two weeks and greatly affected him. Nothing happened yet until 1983, when he went to Switzerland to take another graphic design workshop as part of the degree. There he met Hans-Rudolf Lutz—the teacher of the course and his first great influence.