Thoughts on David Carson

Just watched a short clip on David Carson. I like the way he had ignored the rules of layout and used the power of typography to convey the real feelings of what he really thought. To me the real innovation was that he wasn't purposely trying to dismantle the "system" but inadvertently by just doing it the way he wanted. Enter the period of Grunge layout, a post punk approach to type and layout. Every word can convey a feeling and type can help communicate that feeling. I believe that part of his creative method is using the emotions of fonts to connect the reader to the emotions (or lack thereof) of the text.