Tag Archives: american design culture

coffee: roasting on memory beans

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: build a better mousetap and the world will beat a path to your door. right? except that it almost never turns out that way. so many people i know say things to me like “talent always wins” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged american design, american design culture, american design history, american graphic design, art chantry, bad marketing and brilliant design, Chemex Coffee filters, Chemex coffee maker, Coffee Fest Seattle, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

spooky: spontaneous decisions

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is a crappy little halloween sound effects 45 (the usual groans and moans) that seems to have belongs to some kid named, “Irwin”. when little irwin decided he needed to put his name on this … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged american design culture, art chantry, halloween records, sound effects records, spooky sounds halloween records | Leave a comment

single handedly george and samurai lumberjack

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) everybody knows all about the eames chair designs. in fact, right now, everything ‘charles and ray eames’ is solid-gold cool standard. whenever my designer friends start talking about 20th century modernism, they always immediately blurt, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american design culture, atomic clock, bill renwick, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Eames, don chadwick, donald knorr, Eames Design, ernest farmer, european design culture, george mulhauser, george nelson modernism, george nelson quatsino artist, harry bertoia, herman miller furniture, irving harper, isamu noguchi, Ray Eames, richard schultz, robert brownjohn, sara anderson, suzanne sekey, tobias o'mara | Leave a comment

turning it into twaddle

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this sort of item drives me crazy. “design culture” has become such a self-fulfilling masturbatory fantasy that the yuppie “good taste” culture has embraced that they even sell “designer name brands” in places like walmart … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american design culture, art chantry, brendon fraser, craphound zine, ed hardy, graphic design, Pablo Picasso, Paul Rand, sean tejeratchi, The Tea Party | Leave a comment

hand rendered

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i have no idea who or what Jasper Goodykoontz was. all i know is that he was a classic victorian american male, was full of incredible amounts of arcane information, and that he must have possessed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged almanacs, american design culture, american design history, american illustration, art chantry, engraving history, jasper goodykoontz, perpetual calendars | Leave a comment

doggone it

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i have a LOT of books. i’ve been collecting (more like ‘gathering’, really) books of all sorts for decades, now. i’ve also had to move many many times, and i gotta tell you, books are … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged american design culture, american marketing history, art chantry, graphis magazine, judy publishing company, New York Art Directors Club, popular american culture, typography books, UFO books, used book collecting, will judy author | Leave a comment

favorite things that went unnoticed

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) ONE of the questions i inevitably get asked, no matter what sort of forum i’m in, is that old stand by: “so, what’s our favorite thing you’ve ever done?” so, how does somebody answer that? … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged 45 rpm record labels, american design culture, american design history, art chantry, dave crider estrus records, Marcel Duchamp, marcel duchamp blue moon, marcel duchamp roto-reliefs, record label design, the spitfires estrus records | Leave a comment

say cheese

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) THERE used to a small book store in seattle in the late 80′s/early 90′s called “art in form”. it was a book shop that specialized in “art books’. they had the usual collections of fancy … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged american design culture, art chantry, david stairs author, Marcel Duchamp, marcel duchamp cheese, printer's drill, printing techniques, seattle art in form store | Leave a comment

moods for moderns

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Art

Modernism has become retro…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): For my money, the philosophical dialog of ‘modernism’ is probably the most important and the single most interesting and intriguing intellectual/creative discussion of the last century, maybe even in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american design culture, american design history, american graphic design, Andy Warhol, el lissitzky, el lizitsky, frank stella, frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Lester Beall, modernism, Paul Rand, Pushpin design, rauchenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, william golden | Leave a comment

graphic design as commodity

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Art

the instant collection.a little ziplock, but an entire history. and remember, don’t bring a knife to a gunfight…. by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): I found a little ziplock baggie at a thrift store for a couple of bucks. Inside it … Continue reading →