Tag Archives: graphic illustration

quick skim

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: what i’m reading right now. (design & illustrated throughout by seymour chwast) i’m always amazed that guys like chwast had to do crappy projects like this to make rent. i always assumed they started life right at … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, C.R. Schaare, Carl "Bobo" Olson, graphic illustration, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, seymour chwast | Leave a comment

cover artists

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) norman laliberte is a great hero of mine. he was endlessly experimental and took whatever medium was laying around (or just invented) and did brilliant iconic work in that medium. every single things i’ve seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged american illustration, art chantry, graphic illustration, Herb Lubalin, john alcorn, Judith Thurman, norman laliberte | Leave a comment

laliberte

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the entire book is lettered with a crude cheap ‘crowquill’ pen and peppered with collages of old photos printed in sepia tones. it’s really quite magnificent, even though it looks modest here. i used this … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged american graphic illustration, art chantry, flair pens, graphic illustration, joseph pintauro, norman laliberte, presstype, typography | Leave a comment

have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Art

Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake | Leave a comment

paperback writer

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Art

Forget the paperback writer. Its the vehicle that the paperback novel represented which surpassed the content value…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): The paperback book existed before WW2. however, it was not a big seller, not an important item so … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art chantry, graphic design, graphic illustration, robert bloch, saul bass, Steven Spielberg | Leave a comment

man with the golden eye

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Dave

Another brilliant article by Art Chantry. This one on CBS and William Golden and Art touches on some social-psychological angles to mass media culture that defined much of the pre-boomer generation: by ART CHANTRY (http://www.artchantry.com/) corporate history books are great … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, Cipe Pineles, graphic illustration, lou dorfsman, New York Art Directors Club, reagan era, Rene Magritte, william golden | Leave a comment

the high art of low-fi visual culture

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Dave

Art Chantry.We would like to welcome Art Chantry as a contributor to the Madame Pickwick Art Blog. Art is renown in graphic design work, and is what could be termed a unique, singular personality and a compelling figure who happens … Continue reading →