1982 UNTIL 1987 CARSON WAS A SOCIOLOGY TEACHER AT TORREY PINES HIGH SCHOOL IN DELMAR, CALIFORNIA
BUT ( 1983 - 87 ) AFTER SCHOOL, EVENINGS, AND WEEKENDS HE WAS WORKING ON FANZINE Transworld Skateboarding
Carson then became the art director for a series of magazines
Musician ( 1988 )
Beach Culture ( 1989 -91 )
Surfer ( 1991 -92
Ray Gun ( 1992 -1995 )
Carson co-founded Blue, an outdoor sports magazine, in 1998.
Carson lectures extensively throughout the world, as well as at colleges throughout the U.S., including Cranbrook, Art Center College of Design, University of Notre Dame, RISD and CalArts.
By the time he arrived at Surfing his dark-palette, industrial meltdown style-featuring compressed text; mismatched font size; chopped, scratched, cut, and mixed type; and radically cropped photo --- was fully developed.
Some Surfer readers approved of Carson's redesign, but a majority felt, as one Pasadena subscriber put it, that the new look was " jumbled, ugly, chaotic and hard to read.
During the period of 1989–2004, David Carson has won over 170 Awards for his work in graphic design