Carson became the art director of Transworld Skateboarding magazine in 1984 and by the end of his tenure there he had developed his signature style, using "dirty" type and non-mainstream photographic techniques.
Carson was hired by publisher Marvin Scott Jarrett to design Ray Gun, an alternative music and lifestyle magazine. In one issue, he notoriously used Dingbat, a font containing only symbols, as the font for what he considered a rather dull interview with Bryan Ferry. I find this quite amusing and an inventive way of publishing the interview.
Ray Gun made Carson well known and attracted new admirers to his work.
Some of Carson’s work looks like he has simply just taken letters out of a letterpress and stamped them randomly on a page yet somehow it looks fantastic! His work isn’t all ruled and perfect, giving it an edge. It does astound me that someone who went from being the worlds eighth best surfer and a high-school teacher became a world famous graphic designer in one lifetime.
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