Ray Gun magazine was a prominent American alternative music and style magazine, published from 1992 to 2000 in Santa Monica, California. Known for its experimental typography and "grunge" aesthetics, it was a popular source of music and style information in the 1990s, often featuring up-and-coming artists and icons.
Ray guns art direction was led by artist David Carson, whose controversial and influential typographic work became a defining feature of the magazine's identity, and later influenced other designers. Ray Gun's experimental design approach made a huge impact on that generation of graphic designers and shifted the way people thought about visual communication.