Just because something is legible doesn’t mean it communicates. — David Carson Communicate Copy Share Image
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson Design Copy Share Image
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage. — David Carson Books Copy Share Image
I never learned all the things you're not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense. — David Carson Learned Copy Share Image
Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for… — David Carson Design Copy Share Image
I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were… — David Carson Education Copy Share Image
Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the… — David Carson Communicate Copy Share Image
When I first redesigned the 'Surfer' magazine, a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser, and… — David Carson American Copy Share Image
When I first started my graphic design career, and 'Beach Culture' magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was… — David Carson Beach Copy Share Image
There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate. — David Carson Colour Copy Share Image
Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and… — David Carson Baggage Copy Share Image
I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief… — David Carson Listening Copy Share Image
When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic… — David Carson Art Copy Share Image
My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good… — David Carson Approach Copy Share Image
You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background,… — David Carson Backgrounds Copy Share Image
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall,… — David Carson Analyzing Copy Share Image
If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I… — David Carson Black Copy Share Image
Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the… — David Carson Actually Copy Share Image
As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who… — David Carson Background Copy Share Image
My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible. — David Carson Being Copy Share Image
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica. — David Carson Architect Copy Share Image
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. — David Carson August Copy Share Image
I tend not to have a ton of clients at any one time, but some pretty interesting ones. — David Carson Any Copy Share Image
It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to… — David Carson Design Copy Share Image
The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint. — David Carson Aggressive Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get… — David Carson Artist Copy Share Image
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is… — David Carson Associated Copy Share Image
I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo… — David Carson Amazon Copy Share Image
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know… — David Carson Design Copy Share Image
I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about… — David Carson About Copy Share Image
Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see… — David Carson Basically Copy Share Image
