David Carson Quotes

• Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

  David Carson

  Communication, Mean, Legibility

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• Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

  David Carson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design

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• Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

  David Carson

  Chaos, Reader, Invites

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• You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

  David Carson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Parent

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• If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

  David Carson

  Design, Use, Information

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• Don't confuse legibility with communication.

  David Carson

  Communication, Legibility

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

  David Carson

  Eye, Knowing, Giving

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• Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates...

  David Carson

  Mean, Legibility, Communicate

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

  David Carson

  Interesting, Design, Training

  "(Designed by) DAVID CARSON / Speak, an edgy new magazine for the video generation pushes, folds and mutilates the visual envelope" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. March 05, 1996.

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• Never mistake legibility for communication.

  David Carson

  Funny, Mistake, Communication

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• You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

  David Carson

  Halloween, August, Gold Teeth

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• The station was tight, aggressive ... the deejays at times sounding as if they were broadcasting at gunpoint.

  David Carson

  Broadcasting, Deejays, Aggressive

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