David Carson
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David Carson was a art director of Ray Gun,Carson's style of typographic experimentation influenced the magazines style of not following the conventions of other magazines at that time.The deconstruction style of design he used allowed the magazine to be very unique from other magazines and every issue involved a different style.The style of magazine was abstract,chaotic but sometimes illegible for the audience. Ray Gun was based on music and pop-culture in the 90s and a source for new artists.
These are two separate issues of Ray Gun magazine, by the front cover you can see that already it doesn't follow conventions of other magazines.The format is different in every issue, they don't use they same font for the master-head which other magazines do for example Vogue uses the same font and size in every issue produced.Unlike other magazines where there are several cover-lines in the same font and easy to read,Ray Gun uses unique fonts which aren't very illegible and are placed randomly on the front cover.
In my opinion, I like how conventions aren't followed in Ray Gun as it makes the magazine unique and artistic unlike NME,Vogue or Q that all follow these conventions for magazines however this allows the magazine to have consistency in every issue. I will like to try and not use all of the conventions in magazines to make my magazine look unique however I don't want to go too far into trying to make my magazine not conventional as this could make my magazine not look as professional.
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