DAVID CARSON FOR
THE BOOK OF PROBES
David Carson collaborated with The Book of Probes
"Those interested in seeing Carson's work fire on all cylinders, and getting a better understanding of its wider cultural importance, check out his design for The Book of Probes, a collection of McLuhan aphorisms and adages, quips and japes, .......... In his essay about The Book of Probes, McLuhan expert W. Terrence Gordon writes that Carson's treatment of McLuhan's words "provides a haven of rest for an eye exhausted by the price it pays for its addiction to linear space . . . Carson tweaks the nose of our eye with a wake-up call to resonant utterance, scattering visual reminders of how we impoverish our sensory lives by clinging to linearity."
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