David Carson
David was born in Texas on September 8th, 1955. For much of his early adulthood David was a professional surfer, and attained a standing in the World Surfing Championships while he worked as a high school teacher in California. While his early life had very little if anything to do with graphic design, this changed drastically when he enrolled in a short commercial design class, where his first design influences occurred, stemming from his instructor: a Swiss designer named Hans-Rudolph Lutz (Sacharoq, 1996, p.8). His new found passion for the arts led him to enrol full time in design school, and shortly after he landed his first real job in the design field as a designer for a small magazine called Self and Musician."
"Ray Gun's monumental success over the next three years is most commonly attributed to David's incredible design strategy that was particularly appealing to the youth demographic. In the years between "92 and "95 Ray Gun subscriptions tripled. David's new direction into design targeted at youth brought him into the eyes of corporate America. Large companies such as Nike and Levis saw an opportunity in David's design to increase youth sales, and commissioned him to design print ads and to direct television commercials. David left Ray Gun in 1995 to pursue the establishment of his own company: David Carson Design. The firm became instantly successful and attracted a diverse scene of corporate clientele including Microsoft, Toyota, and Giorgio Armani. David also released his first book in 1995, entitled The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson, which is currently the best selling graphic design book of all time, selling in excess of 200 000 copies. The book was reprinted in 2000 with a slight title change, now reading “The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson.”
Jeff Jank
Jeff Jank is Stones Throw's art & web director and one of the original members of the team, having joined the label along with Madlib and former label manager Egon when Peanut Butter Wolf moved the label from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Over the next ten years Jeff Jank oversaw the label’s online and design presence as it grew from a west coast hip-hop imprint to a globally renowned brand.
He is the illustrator of Madlib's Quasimoto character and designed nearly all of Madlib's works, as well as those of J Dilla, MF DOOM, Dam-Funk, and Mayer Hawthorne, for Stones Throw as well as for other labels.
Quasimoto (also known as Lord Quas) is the animated alter ego or side project of hip hop producer Madlib, from Oxnard, California. Quas is known for the raised pitch of his voice as if he was inhaling helium. Another notable characteristic is Quas inter-changing with Madlib's voice. One day in the studio, Madlib decided to rap to his own beats. He didn't like the sound of his voice (his friends in Oxnard call him 'Barry White' in reference to his deep voice) so he decided to slow his recorder down, rap slowly, then speed the recording back up to produce Quasimoto's distinctive high pitched voice.
MF DOOM
Daniel Dumile (born 9 January 1971) is a British-born American underground hip hop artist best known for his "super villain" stage persona and unique lyrics. Daniel Dumile has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably as MF DOOM. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse), JJ DOOM (with Jneiro Jarel) and Madvillain (with Madlib).
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