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modernize!
by Art Chantry : PART 1 – “LET’S MODERNIZE THE SUCKER!!!” that’s a gold-standard battle cry inside marketing cirles. the easiest way to make your mark on a new client is to simply change their ‘look’ – not even by … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged American board games, american graphic design, american marketing history, art chantry, Battleship game, Battleship Milton Bradley, Clue board game, graphic design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monopoly board game, Tet offensive
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time to be terrified
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) 1965 was one of those pivot years for pop/rock-n-roll/boomer culture. beatlemania was in full swing, garage bands were erupting all over america, motown was dragging black pop to the top of the charts, los angeles was … Continue reading
jini
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is Jini Dellaccio, a self-portrait taken back in the (i think) early 1960’s. this woman is probably among the best and the greatest rock photographers of all time. she ranks up there with annie … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged "punk" photography, annie leibovitz, anton corbijn, art chantry, charles peterson photography, Gig Harbor Washington, jim marshall photography, jini dellaccio, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitch Ryder, neil young, Northwest School art movement, The Buffalo Springfield, The Rolling Stones
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bubble-a-tors and cultural heir-i-tage
by Art Chantry: celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seattle work’s fair – and also celebrating the sensitive way that seattle preserves it’s cultural heritage…. if any of you remember the infamous “ball and chain” that was attached to the … Continue reading
glimmers of perfection
by Art Chantry: after much heated consultation and debate among noted experts, i have decided that this is the single greatest cover of rolling stone magazine ever made. issue 191/july 17, 1975/glimmer twins. …nothing so great except it’s perfect in … Continue reading
big ideas for the collective desire
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) when advertising and marketing began, it was a really simple proposition and contrivance. basically, you placed a sales item out there (a sign, a newspaper ad, a magazine ad, a billboard, etc.) that stated what … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising history, advertising The Big Idea, art chantry, Bill Bernbach, Chivas Regal advertising, Doyle Dane Bernbach, george lois, goebbels brand marketing, Goebbels the big lie, julian koenig, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Volkswagen Beetle advertising, volkswagen think small
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old hippie acid pixels: matrix of slang
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i’ve always been fascinated by the deep psychic connections between the early computer graphics era and the psychedelic underground. there was something about the way computers worked that allowed acid heads to gravitate DIRECTLY into … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, computer graphic design, computer graphics, graphic design, lowbrow popular design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, slang visual culture, TIGER computer applications, wes wilson fillmore posters, wes wilson graphics, wes wilson psychedelic, Wired magazine
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pushing their hubris everywhere
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i guess this is an exercise in whining. so bear with me. over my entire career ive done and AWFUL LOT of work for small arts groups and non-profits and community organizations. i guess you … Continue reading
ragged story and glory
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is a tour poster/advert from the october 5th, 1978, issue of Rolling Stone magazine. it is an odd advert becasue neil young was in one of his many transitions between his various disguises in … Continue reading