Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

real upset that their stories were too hard to read, but I found after a few
issues that the very same writers who complained about crazy design were
also upset if their article was not given that kind of treatment.” Giving an
article his special attention signaled that it was important. By the final
issue, Carson had taken this premise to the extreme by obliterating most
headlines. Letterforms were overlapped, overprinted, smashed, and
otherwise covered by black, mortised, random bands abstracted to the point
of incomprehensibility. Carson was designing for the code-busters to make
sense of it all.