"Who says you have to learn the rules 

before you break them."

David Carson is one of the well-known post-modernist during late 80s and early 90s through skateboarding and surfing magazines. Without design background, his rule breaking typographic treatment is very stunning unique. While losing readability, his typography communicates more, this makes a debate between practical and young designer if his typographic styles are worth to practice or not.

David Carson(born September 8, 1954)

 

Ray Gun Magazine Cover

 

Trek: Graphic Design Book

 

Dingbat Article

 

By Tongtach Tupavong

Inspiring Text in Communication Arts

Some inspirations of advertisement 

that use text to delivery the message of campaign to customers. 

By Pratt Sutthipitak 

Brittany's Thesis

Topic: Text as art

Revised thesis: Many artists have used text as a component to conceptual art pieces, but the digital frontier has altered the way we use text as a human society and has opened up new applications of text in art.