Tag Archives: graphic design

who was

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): this is an ad taken from the inside front cover of the rocket, may, 1980 (issue #11). this ad convinced me that the rocket was the coolest graphic magazine i’d ever encountered in real life … Continue reading →

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no idle hands for the canaries

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Dave

Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): i found this in my old crap files. it’s an advert from the april 2, 1981, issue of rolling stone magazine (it also ran in a few other music journals). it’s nothing special, really. just an … Continue reading →

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return to sender

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. It was also the last day Hitler would appear outside of his bunker in Berlin—he would be dead 10 days later—in 1945. … Continue reading →

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like magic

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) “Magic Designer” art-toy box top package, ca. 1950s. Northern Signal Co., Saukville, Wisconsin. The “Magic Designer” was very much like the “Spirograph.”

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wisdom begins at the edge

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama! The beautiful Tibetan detailing seen on the “turn” edge of the jacket cover was appropriated from a traditional arts tapestry or … Continue reading →

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figuring the mess

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) like i talked about in my last essay, this is what his paste-up looked like (after 40 years of decomposition.) if you look hard, you can see the type printed on it. every time i … Continue reading →

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pulp noir

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Murder After a Fashion Pocket Books, 1961 Illustration: Harry Bennett (b. 1925) Bennett rendered over 800 covers for gothic romance novels in the 1960s and 1970s, but his literary and … Continue reading →

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flexing the lyrics: printing on condoms

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) way back in 1965 the frenchman, robert massin, designed an amazing book that was released by grove press (the great american arts publisher). in it, he took a reading of eugene ionesco’s classic of the … Continue reading →

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sangamo

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Industrial Age catalog cover for Sangamo “Button Type Capacitors,” ca. 1957. The background “wallpaper” pattern of capacitors is illustrated and not photographic. I always admired artists who could render … Continue reading →

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