David Carson (Ray Gun mag, lol90's graphic design bad boy, etc) has a new magazine!!

It's called CARSON, and I just impulsively spent $40 on a 6-issue subscription (which is a way huge amt of money for me to impulsively spend) and I am v excited about it.

You can read about it at http://carsonmag.net

Is anyone else whoa excited abt this like I am? Like seriously, I almost pissed myself when I found 3 early issues of Ray Gun for $5 at a local used book store.

i liked his work in the past. not sure what he can bring to the table in 2011 tho.

i would have been equally as excited about finding the Ray Guns tho!

It was at a point where I'd spent tons of time reading about him/the magazine but had never actually gotten to see any of his stuff, and they were buried under this huge stack of shitty magazines and I totally freaked once when I found them and once again when the lady at the counter shrugged and told me I could have all 3 for $5

Hahah he named it after himself? Dear lord.

Still have an issue of Ray Gun around, the one with Swervedriver on the cover. The big rival was Vaughn Oliver's Huh, I believe.

Ned, that's one of the three I got!

We are practically brothers.

And drone and design shall bind us.

Some shitstorm on Twitter btwn @carsonmag and @DavidLCarson where Carson the person is claiming to have nothing to do with Carson the magazine

wtf. that's really weird. They actually posted a pdf of the contract with supposedly his signature on it.

Bikini was a pretty cool little magazine too. I kind of liked the little square format better than Raygun.

i still have a couple of beat-up ray guns, one w/ mudhoney and roky erikson

Ray Gun looked really awesome, but was often hard to read.

yeah, reading the articles was kind of beside the point

wasn't one set in zapf dingbats?

i only read ray gun for the nude centerfold personally

everyone I knew in high school who read ray gun became a graphic designer (no vu joke)

a guy I used to work with who went to calarts claimed that carson ripped off his whole schtick from a certain calarts professor, but I can't remember the name

heh my dad is a graphic designer we had 1m of raygun and its ilk lying around the house when i was growing up, consequently i hate it

i am so ambivalent about carson, like i totally love him theoretically and he has great ideas but so much of it is such an eyesore that i can only really appreciate now through "the 90's" as a retro-irony lens.

yeah the design is total garbage, "edgy" 90s design redeemed only by some decent interviews

i get flyers for d'n'bass nights that look like david carson

but then i'm like, to what extent does good desing rely on its current fashionability and like to what extent does that mean that it can be "appreciated" at all given the shifting sand that sort of project is built on.

I'm sort of a form-follows-function purist, I guess, & I have to admit that, while I often admired the show of typography, I found the enterprise as a whole to be sorta ostentatious.

a few great things came out of it - e.g. the credits to seven, i mean se7en, which are the best thing carson didn't design.

yeah, the credits to se7en are legendary in the design world. I'd say that that is def the high-water-mark of hyper-stylized mid-90s type design.

i get flyers for d'n'bass nights that look like david carson

― plax (ico), Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:34 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol do you live in 1997?

while, on the whole, i like things to be as simple as possible graphically, i know that i'm tied to a kind of fashionable trend within that. for example BUTT then> Fantastic Man/the gentlewoman is a particular kind of simplicity that has appealed for the last few years.

although on the whole i don't care about graphic design as long as it's reasonably transparent. i know what i like and i know what's annoying and most graphics are neither.

i get flyers for d'n'bass nights that look like david carson

― plax (ico), Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:34 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol do you live in 1997?

― buffandmaxsgaydad (Pillbox), Saturday, June 25, 2011 11:57 PM (2 minutes ago)

this is exactly what i think when people hand these things to me!

lol

oh, Ed Fella is the guy I was trying to think of

http://www.aiga.org/uploadedImages/AIGA/Content/Inspiration/aiga_medalist/MD_FellaE_Letters_on_Amer_640(1).jpg