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Adobe.com: How'd you get the idea for "Fotografiks"?
Carson: I always carry a little point-and-shoot camera whenever I travel and I always take a lot of weird photos. I use them mostly in my slide shows. Someone remarked that the photos were their favorite part of my presentations and that I should put them into a book. I guess I'm lucky in that I'm in a position where I can get all of my home snapshots published. If this were a first book, it'd be a difficult sell, if not impossible.
Adobe.com: Were these trips mostly personal then or business?
Carson: I'd say most of the trips come from invitations to give a presentation to a local design group or advertising agency. It's literally gotten me around the world, from Belgrade to Chile. I must admit that my reaction to these invites is still like, "Me? Really? A free trip to where?" The difference is that I've gotten much, much busier these days. It's not always such a wise decision — although next week I'm supposed to go to Australia, Turkey, London, and then Prague.
Adobe.com: "Fotografiks" seems a little different from your other books. There isn't as much of what people might call pure graphic design. |
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Carson: There's graphic designers who will ask, "Well, where's the type?" People seem to really like it or they don't. A lot of people say that [the book] is just a lot of out-of-focus photos. It's a riskier book in a lot of ways. I don't think it will have as wide an audience.
Adobe.com: It isn't as commercially focused as the other ones, either.
Carson: I think books for me are kind of like albums. Each album is different, and every now and then there's a more experimental one. But then you have people who are always going to just want the old stuff — and they're going to be disappointed. It's more interesting for me to do a book like this one than a neat type book. I'm not quite there right now. The only thing in this book that's commercial were some images that I used on the "Nine Inch Nails" [album cover] packaging for "The Fragile."
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