David Carson tore up every rule of modernist typography during his tenure as art director of Ray Gun magazine. Text bled off pages, fonts shifted mid-sentence, and legibility was sacrificed for emotional impact — most infamously when he set an entire Bryan Ferry interview in Zapf Dingbats.

This design system captures that raw, photocopied energy: muddy oxblood and burnt mustard on charcoal ground, distressed display type, deliberately broken grids, and the visual noise of ink bleed and halftone grain.