Ahead of Gaudi, Marcel Breuer, Arne Jacobsen and superstar architect Zaha Hadid…
The graphic designer David Carson is a loose naturalfooter who was smart enough, years ago, to buy a dreamy spread overlooking an equally dreamy righthander on a Caribbean island.
So he works, he travels, but he comes home to his divine patch to ride mostly uncrowded green water rights. He invites shapers like Dan Tomson, famous lately for his collaboration with Kelly Slater and Firewire surfboards, to come and ride and play and design.
A surfer to the bone.
Recently, he was voted the 18th most influential designer in history by Complex magazine.
In his foamy wake are the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi, the great modernist Marcel Breuer, the Danish designer of the Swan and Egg Chair, Arne Jacbson and the superstar architect Zaha Hadid.
Only one rung ahead of Dave is the husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames, whose chairs have become the most pirated in the world.
Don’t you just love a man who can swing his talent into the world, blow minds, and retreat into the perfect surf lifestyle? It gets better. BeachGrit, a fan of Carson since he turned fusty Surfer magazine into the hippest thing alive, overnight, in 1991, asked him to create a new WSL logo, just for you, just for me, after he called it “silly and embarrassing.
It’s coming, too! Soon!
“I’m getting close, even have a few logos designed,” he said yesterday.
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He was to do a tour of my outpost years ago and my boss at the time splashed out for tickets for the team, at 150 squid per head. D.C. pulled out of the tour fairly last minute, leaving the organiser out of pocket for airfares, accommodation and venue deposits. I don’t think the boss got his money back.
Funny how timeless Eames and Jacbson are yet Carson’s work looked dated about two weeks after he did it.
who’s the 18th best surfer? 1.6 billion people know the answer to that. How many insta followers does this guy have?
Taj doesn’t have an S on the end of his name. Seppos always do that. Even commentators. Taj is a rad cat and been around long enough to get his name right.
Taj burrows into the puss
I can only imagine the perfectly worn Eame’s chairs carefully situated in the Beach Grit library, a half read Bukowski rested on an ottoman whilst in the lunchroom I picture the practicality of the Starck Ghost chair although there is the increased risk of thigh stick due to the prevalence of Beach Grit branded extra short board shorts in the office.
So wrong! Everything you see is Jonathan Adler!
I like you Staines. I like you a lot. I actually laughed out loud in the studio for the first time in 2.7 years.