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beginning with boris
by Art Chantry: in my eternal quest to find the origins of the dreaded “hot rod monster”, i have been reminded (by jordi duro) of this particular image. this ad here is illustrated by boris artzybasheff (from fortune magazine, 1952.) … Continue reading
rick griffin: drawing as performance art
by Art Chantry: rick griffin was one of those guys who changed my world when i was a kid. the first time i saw a griffin poster, i realized there was a different existence out there. he became my hero. … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Chris Darrow, ed big daddy roth, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rick Griffin, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, Surfer Magazine, Surfer Magazine John Van Hamersveld, von dutch
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rat finks and cars and kits
by Art Chantry: back in the mid 1960′s, ‘monsters-driving-hotrods” became a huge fad. originally starting life as WW2 nosecone art, it drifted into the racing world throught he displaced WW2 vets and (particularly) through the person of ‘von dutch’, who … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, boris artzybasheff, David Campbell commercial artist, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, Ed Roth Rat Fink, HAWK model kits, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, von dutch clothing, Von Dutch design
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Impko: some cheezy pop history
by Art Chantry: this thing is a called a water-transfer decal, specifically, this is a souvenir travel decal. you know the ones, you’ve seen them everywhere all your life. i always referred to them as ‘winnebago decals’, because you saw … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, dave crider, dave crider estrus records, don monteverde, ed big daddy roth, impko decal company, Impko decal company bogota New Jersey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monte's Monsters, water-transfer decals, winnebago decals
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clean,crisp and sloppy as heck
by Art Chantry: yeah, i love a good bar-b-que, no doubt, no doubt. this is (of course) me, modeling the latest in extraordinarily hip bbq togs. i have a deep soft squishy spot for anything with lettering like this on … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, Domenic Prior, Domenic Prior Riot on Sunset Strip, Earl Newman, Earl Newman lettering, ed big daddy roth, insomniac cafe los angeles, Jay Ward, language of graphic design, lettering styles 1960's, Los Angeles culture 1965-66, Rick Griffin, shelly's manne-hole, The Beach Boys Smile, von dutch
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altered cover
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) there is this weird corner in the crazy record collecting world that is reserved for the truly twisted. these guys collect records that are such crap that nobody wants them at all. it do this. … Continue reading
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Tagged Altered Art, altered record covers, art chantry, boots randolph, crazy record collecting, doodle record covers, ed big daddy roth, Jive Time record store tacoma, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, record collecting, record collecting secret pleasures
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sub genius : trust your heroes?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the early 1980′s, the church of the sub-genius was just as “out there” and just as scary fucking dangerous as survival research laboratories. what SRL was doing to technology, the church of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AIGA, art chantry, church of the sub genius, david meyer, david meyer sub genius, dennis p. eichhorn, ed big daddy roth, iivan stang church of sub genius, ivan chermeyeff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michel cronan, ralph caplan, SRL, Steven Heller, survival research laboratories, the rocket magazine
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Obscure objects of dezire
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) “Odder Rods” Donruss trading card stickers, 1970 Illustration: Bob “B. K.” Taylor By the time the Nutty-Mads/Stanley Mouse/Big Daddy Ed Roth-influenced Odd Rods came along, B. K. Taylor was already … Continue reading
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Tagged bill elder, Bob "B.K." Taylor illustration, Bob B.K. Taylor, Donruss trading card stickers, DZ Hart, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, jack davis mad magazine, jesse marinoff reyes, Jim Henson workshop, National Lampoon, SICK magazine, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, stanley miller, the muppet show, wally wood
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the rats are winning
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Character decal, “Rat Fink,” ca. 1990. Though Rat Fink came into the world sometime in the mid-to-later-1950s, and is the “creation” of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth—an appropriation/adaptation/knockoff of characters Stanley … Continue reading
typecasting the typeface
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) ross f. george was probably the most familiar, most influential, most ubiquitous and the most important calligrapher, lettering artist, type designer and graphic designer of the last century. sure, we all know about herman zapf … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, billy-bob helvetica, drawing ink pen nibs, e.c. matthews, ed big daddy roth, frederic goudy, graphic design, graphic design history, herb agnew, herman zapf, hunt pen company, lettering arts, norman hathaway, ross f. george, saul bass, speedball textbook for lettering, william hugh gordon, woody guthrie signpainter
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