Photographers, Graphic Designers and Magazine Creators -

Roger Sargent, Photographer -

Snapped: A photo of Meighan and Gallagher 

Roger Sargent is a British photographer who has worked for the highly acclaimed British music magazine NME for a number of years. In that time he has photographed hundreds of some of the worlds best known artists, including Kasabian and The Arctic Monkeys. Although he has ventured out into the world of music and has photographed many different artists, his passion is indie/alternative rock and he is often at gigs and festivals ready and waiting to shoot some snaps of the main men. Here is a picture of Tom Meighan (Kasabian) and Liam Gallagher (Beady Eye) as well as a quote from Sargent himself taken from NME's 'Sargent's top 10 pictures.'

"I had a spell as Kasabian's official unofficial photographer. I would tag along to various gigs and shoot away. This was after their V headline show – Liam was mid brilliant rant, pointing to me and telling Tom, 'This f****r knows it, he knows it.' Not sure what I knew but I agreed, of course."


David Carson, Graphic Designer -

Mood board featuring examples of Carson's work

David Carson is as an American graphic designer, art director and surfer.He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun, in which he employed much of the typographic and layout style for which he is known. In one issue, he notoriously used Dingbat, a font containing only symbols, as the font for what he considered a rather dull interview with Bryan Ferry (However, the whole text was published in a legible font at the back of the same issue of Ray Gun as well). In 1995, Carson left Ray Gun to found his own studio, David Carson Design, in New York City. He started to attract major clients from all over the United States. During the next three years (1995–1998), Carson was doing work for Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban, Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser and Giorgio Armani. In 2004, Carson became the Creative Director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston. That year, he also designed the special "Exploration" edition of Surfing Magazine. In a feature story, Newsweek magazine said he "changed the public face of graphic design". In November 1995, Carson published his first book, End of Print. It sold over 200,000 copies in five different languages and soon became the best-selling graphic design book worldwide. This design inspires me to consider the idea of creating something that is more complex rather than just having the simple magazine. Although I do like the idea, I am deciding because I feel as this will be very tough to try and use as a style model.

Christophe Brunquelle

Christophe Brunquelle, Magazine Creator -
Christophe Brunquelle is the creator of the highly acclaimed 'Purple', a magazine which features French fashion, culture and art. Brunquelle is something of a legend in the publishing world, as his style and creative flare has inspired many to produce the modern magazines we see in stores today. Brunquelle's magazine philosophy is to have each page 'jam packed' with images and artistic features. His style has been replicated by many and has revolutionised the way that magazines are created in today's modern era. The use of images as well as words allows his magazines to develop a unique persona/status which separates them from any others o the market. Brunquelle's magazines often contain a vast amount of blank, white spaces, which provide each page with a sense of cleanliness as well as a professional, smart and clean cut edge.

A double page spread, taken from Purple.