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Dubai Lynx 2015: ‘If everybody loves your work, you’re playing it way too safe’ – David Carson

Draw from your own experience to better the work, said the graphic design legend.

Graphic design guru and former professional surfer David Carson pulled in a full house at the Dubai Lynx, encouraging those within the industry to draw on their own experiences in life to better their work.

The founder of US-based David Carson Design and the man behind some of the most innovative magazine design of the past 30 years, urged designers and illustrators to experiment and for employers to give them the space to do so.

“Sometimes when you hire good people, you have to get out of the way and let them do what they do,” he said. “If I hire an illustrator, I hire them because I know th


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