

Apple called him one of the 30 most Influential Mac users ever.

The prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Design asked Carson to create publicity and posters. The surfer David Carson is the world’s most imitated graphic designer, at least among magazines that do “hip” and “edge” and who like to break every typographic rule there is while straight-jacketing themselves to another set of strictures.Ĭarson, who is sixty-five, re-tooled Surfer magazine in 1991, Matt Warshaw calling his work “jarring but innovative”, and added “a majority felt, as one Pasadena subscriber put it, that the new look was “jumbled, ugly, chaotic and hard to read.”

Carson joins titans of the creative game including directors Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee on Masterclass…
