David Carson_Workshop Maribor - New book available


Two designers Rudi Uran and Matej Koren made a book about David Carson workshop in Maribor 2002. In a book they have introduced works from 25 european designers who were participants of DC workshop. The book is not just a document of workshop, but it incorporate also the responses of autors after workshop. It is available and you can order it now. DAVID CARSON MADE FIRST COVER.

 

I suppose that the common wish of the majority of young creators (aspirants) is to meet the teacher (the master), who helps them find the way and the aim in their pursuit of their own self-realization (initiation), the master, who leads you to the verge where you face your own self, is the gift of God.

Last September the group of the young designers-pursuers/aspirants, of various cultural backgrounds, nationalities and attitudes, found the common point in facing the magician of the graphic design, Mr. David Carson.

In the beginning the variety of expectations, and the dominant curiosity about what might have been hidden in the master’s pocket spread discomfort over the young faces.

Slowly, unobtrusively, Carson was setting deceptively simple assignments which, once accomplished, revealed gradually the subtle souls. Together with the creators he precisely and with a sense of humour analyzed the works and moved the boundaries far into the interior of the intimate-personal.

He carefully shelled the conscious from the unconscious, the intuitive from the rational, the creative from the cliche. One layer after the other.

The creators were becoming more relaxed, friendly, creative and energetically fulfilled in a secretive way, as if their own - recognized coded symbols opened their chakras. They flooded the room with a wild energy, which left none of the visitors indifferent...

I had the silent role of recording that creative process behind/by the camera. I filmed a documentary. I noted my emotions of that time.

Rudi

 

New book available for $39,95! - paperback - full color - 11.8 x 9" - secure order form!

 25.09.2002 
...through the lens of the camera I was the mute observer of the shapes formed out of the various materials (plastics, paper, glue, paint, ropes…) pouring over the boundaries of the defined surfaces, from the tables to the walls. The boundaries were vanishing. It was impossible to distinguish what had been voluntarily created by the wild souls, from what had been created by itself/its own force. The boundaries of the voluntary were disappearing. It was in that indefinableness that I felt my own power of perception of some new intuitive visualization... And, as reviewing the film, I was discovering the new and new graphic solutions... Either for creating a poster, or a book cover or an illustration.... All the solutions were offered ages ago, one should only know how to find them. To know...

 14.04.2003 
Finishing the book... Matej and I. That wild energy has long gone. We both miss it. Each of us in his own way. So we worked on this book... each in his own way. It has become a document. Actually, it has died somehow. Personally, I consider it being positive. As the mere urge for the rebirth. Again, we are organizing the creative workshop. We are both nervous. Will that repeat?