Tag Archives: david carson

all washed up the creek

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

and no place to go. Rinsed out by the wave of the future. … If political parties and ideologies, including the most reactionary, must constantly look ahead, they habitually look back, too, to the figures from whom they derive inspiration … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged david carson, david carson raygun magazine, Filippo Marinetti, Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian Fascism, italian futurism, jacques villon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Marinetti Manifesto of Futurism, Norman Bel Geddes, R.W. Flint, Raymod Loewy, Raymond Duchamp-Villon | Leave a comment

shahn and beall

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: BEAT-UP VINTAGE DUSTJACKET OF THE WEEK AWARD: “‘illustrators ’60″ – the annual of the american illustration (1960). design/lester beall, illustration/ben shahn (look real closely). (sorry my photoshop skills are so bad. i almost lost the shahn illustration … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged american graphic design history, american illustration, American illustration history, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david carson, Lester Beall, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, von dutch | Leave a comment

merely fresh kill

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) every decade has it’s little graphic design cliches. these are ubiquitous gimmicks and snappy ideas that seem to catch on like a fad and then get exhausted, yet persist long after it was ever clever. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, chuck anderson, crumby textbooks, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, finishing schools, Francis Picabia, graphic design, Max Ernst, Shepard Fairey, simon reynolds | Leave a comment

decorative design about decoration

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artvhantry.com) Cool as meaningless decor….hated nest ( magazine). thought it was really really bad and ignorantly designed by an amateur . i couldn’t look at it without getting furious at how stupid it was. then everybody … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alexey brodovitch, art chantry, beach culture magazine, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, fabien baron, fred a. bernstein, fred woodward, genesis p. orridge, jeff bercovici, joseph holtzman, malcolm garret, nest magazine, neville brody, occupy wall street, Peter Max, peter saville, Shepard Fairey, Steven Heller, Terry Jones | Leave a comment

dymo-mite

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( Art@artchantry.com ) labelmaker was a big cheapo solution for typography back in the early punk days. you saw it everywhere, on record covers, posters, zines. you could literally buy a label maker gun (especially the gutbucket … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, bob newman the rocket, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, duran duran record cover, grant alden, grant alden the rocket, jess helms NEA, Jesse Helms, Joan Baez, joan baez LP cover, labelmaker, larry reid, larry reid coca, poster art, punk aesthetic, The Rocket | Leave a comment

history is written by the whiners

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) take a good close look at this. this is what sub pop originally looked like. this was back when bruce pavitt was still a student at evergreen college in olympia, washington (the “hippie hangover state … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged art chantry, ashleigh talbot, bob newman the rocket, bruce pavitt, bruce pavitt sub pop, carl smool, charles burns, clark humphrey, dale yarger, dan leigh squiers, dana higgins, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, helene silverman, jonathan poneman, kim thayill, lester bangs, linda owens, lisa orth, lynda barry early career, mark mclaughlin, Nirvana, pravda records, russ bataglia | Leave a comment

talent scouts: publishers sweep cakes

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): back when i was art directing the rocket, i had a constant parade of “talent” approaching me for work. because the rocket was literally the ONLY kiosk in town to do anything fun or kool in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged adrian frutiger, art chantry, bob newman, bob newman the rocket, callahan comic panel artist, carl smool, charles burns, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, denny eichhorn, ed big daddy roth, gary larsen, Gary Panter, Harvey Pekar, holly tuttle, love battery, lynda barry, matt groening, Milton Glaser, pete bagge, randy willoughby, rat fink comic strip, Robert Crumb, ron huage the simpsons, sub pop records, Ted Bundy, the rocket newspaper, walter dorwin teague associates | Leave a comment

grunge: just more snotty bratty punk rock

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Art

When reality escapes the narrative… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) ‘grunge’ never really existed. the big problem with the term ‘grunge’ is that it was strictly developed to replace the word ‘punk’. bruce pavitt, the creative dude behind the sub … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged bruce pavitt, bruce pavitt sub pop, butthole surfers, cat butt, david carson, david carson raygun magazine, dennis white desperate times, flop grunge band, gorilla gardens, jo smitty, lester bangs, maire masco, mark mclaughlin, MLB, mr. epp & the calculations, mudhoney sub pop, nirvana nevermind, pravda records, randy willoughby, the godz, The Ramones, walter dorwin teague associates, zine desperate times | Leave a comment

culture jammers: replacement values

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) THIS is going to be tough. trying to explain WHY this record cover and the trajectory of genesis p. orridge’s thinking is so important to the history of contemporary graphic design (and our popular culture) … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged art chantry, barney bubbles, cosi fanni tutti, dale travous, david carson, genesis p. orridge, hipgnosis cover art, hypgnosis, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, joy division, malcolm garret, monte cazzeza, neville brody, peter saville, phil hartman, reid miles, stefan sagmeister, talking heads, the Buzzcocks, the death factory, The Ramones, throbbing gristle, tim girvin, vaughn oliver | Leave a comment

with fins: trapped out of time

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i often get asked to do ‘presentations’ or ‘lectures’ or ‘talks’ (i dunno what to call them) where i stand in front of groups of people and show my work and talk about my ideas. it’s … Continue reading →