Post-Modern graphic design example #9 (6/16)
David Carson was a graphic designer who took on new editorial ways and focused mainly on typography similar to our last designer's work, Neville Brody. This piece was created by another designer and was inspired by Carsons approach to typography, where she designed a biography of Carson while incorporating his design style. Within Carlsons designs he portrayed type as being the center of attention, with an addition of overlapping photos, other texts and textures. He also used another key characteristic of post-modernism by using a tilted axis with both typography and photography layouts. This designer chose to use a tilted axis with her typography, while leaving the one photo to speak for itself. The one characteristic of post modernism that I see very clearly in this piece is the unconventional aspect, due to some backwards text, filled in numbers and letters, the jagged lines running on the page, as well as the slight tilt to even the paragraph of text. It is weird, but it makes your eyes move around the piece and focus more on reading each section, which is key to a biography design. This example is very different from the last one because Neville Brody had a very polished look to his design, with plain colors, the text was simple, tilted, and had some elements of overlapping. Although with Yeung's design almost every element is overlapping or being overlapped by another, the colors are muted instead of bright, and the text is not one consistent typeface throughout the piece. I think this design is very important because it shows an amazing dedication to David Carson by drawing form his own design style. It incorporated an intense and unconventional amount of typography, strong textures that are evident throughout the entire design, as well as a style that doesn't rely on photos compared to some other design work we have seen, like April Greiman.
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