Both these interviews are with dinosaurs—established graphic designers with huge reputations who represent “ancient” and opposing philosophies. Above we have an interview with Dutch designer Wim Crouwel. He works in a modernist style that may appear quite rigid now. Of course Modernist ideas were themselves quite innovative decades earlier when Crouwel’s generation was rebelling against against pre-modernist design ideals.
And next we have an interview with 90s designer David Carson, who rejects typographic rules in favor of a more intuitive kind of expression. He rebeled against what he saw as very stiff and absolute rules that had been set up by Modernist designers and observed for decades. Carson made a name for himself by stretching the boundaries of readability for counterculture audiences of skateboarders and surfers.
Considering that Carson’s defining work is now 15 years old, which of these guys is the dinosaur? Are they both? What rules are in force now in graphic design? Should they be? What dinosaurs will be killed off by your generation of designers?
