Fotografiks - David Carson, Philip B. Meggs

I purchased this book sight-unseen after my first David Carson purchase 'The End of Print' which proved to be an invaluable design resource. This book however, was not a follow up to that publication and must be viewed in a different light. Still of considerable value, but of a completely different nature, it took me a little while to warm to this book. As the title suggests, the material in this book is photography based, not text based. Having been disappointed at first that the pages were not the visual feast of typoography I was after, I was suprised when Carson's unique process of working with imagery crept into my ...  Read the complete review