Raygun Rises Again As “C A R S O N”

Raygun, the magazine founded by David Carson in the 90’s is to be relaunched as C A R S O N magazine. Raygun was published from 1992 – 2000 and was renowned for its interviews with musicians and the unusual/mental typography created by David Carson. The new magazine will cover art, culture, design, fashion and current events and will be published 6 times per year.

I heard and saw David Carson speak (twice) at the Offset Illustration conference in Dublin last year and he was a complete joy. Very charming and witty and of course a complete design genius. He talked about how he didn’t know the rules of graphic design and just forged his own way not worrying about it. He told so many funny stories and had so much work to show that the questions and answers at the end had to be moved to its own slot the following day – hence the reason I heard him speak twice.

One of the stories he told was about an interview with Brian Ferry which was scheduled to run in the magazine but David felt the interview was so boring and not up to scratch that he set the type in Zapf Dingbats, basically rendering it unreadable.

Here’s a few covers and inside pages of old Rayguns.