David Carson

David Carson is known as a well known for producing the unconventional magazine 'RAY GUN' with each issue of the magazine being completely different. The result of exploring different magazine typographic design resulted in chaos and not always being able to read the front cover.
After three years David Carson left the magazine however the abstract appearance of the magazine continued.

 

 This issue of ray gun has Liz Phair on the front however we would not of know that had the name not of been displayed on the magazine.

The fact that all we see is her legs and her hair shows originality of David Carsons ideas comprising this to any other magazine we would have a coloured picture of the artist face.

The photo being in black and white shows he wants the bright ref floating tomato to stand out against the image to catch the readers eye.

The bright yellow 'gun' in the title also follows the theme of random colours on the front cover. This draws attention to the audiences eye and the bright yellow and red contrast with the black and white image.

This cover of the magazine as you can see, has a completely different house style. Even the title of the magazine has changed from being white and yellow overlapping to big bold writing. David Carsons idea of changing the title could of been at a disadvantage here as not maintaining one specific style throughout its issue could mean the audience either loose interest or ay not be able to distinctly recognize the magazine resulting in less people buying it.

When we think of a magazine front cover we generally imagine the image to fill the whole page. Here Carsons abstract ideas are evident as we see the image only filling half of the page.

The placing of the bar-code on the magazines are different. This could be to emphasis the originality of the ray gun issues.

The typography of this magazine has stuck to a running style however with random letters being in bold. This draws the readers attention to the text and makes them want to read into it.