Relevant Graphic Designers

David Carson is an American graphics designer

and art director who is well known through his magazine design
being innovative as well as his experimental, edgy typography which stands out and draws the reader in. This creates mood and an urban feel which i aim for on Base Junkie.

“He significantly influenced a generation to embrace typography as an expressive medium”

 

 

 

RAY GUN

Carson was art director for the Ray Gun magazine of which he designed a lot of the typography and layout featured. His well known typography is aesthetically pleasing and different to the average magazine cover. This is a selling point as the typography and layout used would stand out against other magazines and his work would be easily recognised.

David Carson has an urban look about his work and therefore i feel it would work for my hip-hop/R&B style music magazine to express the rough and bold nature of this style of music. Through innovative, thought provoking typography, Carson could create an interesting, stylish cover for my magazine.



Neville Brody: An English graphic designer, typographer and art director. Known for working with 'The Face' magazine (a British fashion and culture magazine) as well as Arena magazine which was magazine published monthly for men. He has also designed record covers for successful artists which appear distinct and innovative. With his experience in designing for magazines as well as album covers, Neville would be a relevant designer for bass Junkie as he has worked for The Face which is based on fashion/youth and culture; this is something intended for my magazine, as well as Arena magazine which lies under the 'Men's' category, suggesting it has 'adult/inappropriate content' which is another feature I wish to incorporate into my magazine. Through his work designing album covers, Brody clearly as knowledge and skills when it comes to music related designing.

 

 

 

Paula Scher-
This American graphic designer, painter and art educator. Scher was the first designer to create a new identity and promotional graphics system for The Public theatre and therefore has inspired and influenced many of the graphic design promoting the theatre and culture in general. Also in her career, Paula was hired by CBS Records in the department of marketing and advertisement department, before becoming the art director at Atlantic Records( an American record label) designing album covers. This supports my idea of Scher being a relevant graphic designer for Bass Junkie as she has knowledge and experience in promotion with relevance to music. She would be useful and her style of deign is suited to my themes and genre of hip-hop youth within the magazine.