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Tag Archives: Milton Glaser
americana as cultural habitat
Much in the vein of Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray and even the art of Jack Levine, its modern protest satire that helped define the left of center cultural aesthetic. The left cultural industry machine that by nature is part of … Continue reading
all those years ago
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Here are the other half of the illustrations that graced the special feature cover story of the October, 1984 issue of Mother Jones (my Cover of the Day). I thought it worth presenting not only for the … Continue reading
launching a thousand covers
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i think john alcorn is one of those guys who launched a thousand ships and everybody else took credit for what they took from him. from marshall mcluhan to the yippies? i’d say that’s a big … Continue reading
cover stories
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) Milton Glaser, 1964. take the main character, draw her. make her look like the movie. try to ape the current popular crosshatch style (pioneered by john alcorn at pushpin.) whatever. just not impressed, … nice … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, c. day lewis, edward gorey, enrico arno, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, pushpin studios
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graphic standard disposable
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) there was a brief period of time in america when this is what hip, cool ‘cutting-edgey’ avant-guard graphic design looked like. it was highly illustrative, hand rendered, colorful to the point of psychedelic and self-consciously … Continue reading
the morgues
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) how many of you out there in illustrationland (or graphic design world, for that matter) know what a “morgue” is any more? it’s a term and an idea that has gotten lost in the digital … Continue reading
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Tagged american families 1950's-70's, art chantry, art-o-graph, Bernie Fuchs, draw from a light table, garret/howard files, graphic design, graphic design world morgue, lucigraph, Milton Glaser, morgue clip file, pack rat complex, pack rats, R.C.A. Victor Nipper, stepford wives, vintage stereo systems
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the cat the glove and a tale
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): my father was not a “good guy.” among his many rather reprehensible attributes was a certain pathological ‘cheapness’. today’s little graphic item of interest is a sign that he used to have pasted on the inside … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Uncategorized
Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, commercial art taught via mail order, graphic design history, L. Remhart, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, paul rand art for industry, speedball pens, woody guthrie commercial sign painter
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rat fink
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) ED ROTH (given the name”big daddy” by one of his model kit clients) is one of those iconic pop culture figures of the last half-century. there is an awful lot of things that we take for … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged AIGA, bill selby, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, glen bray, howie pyro, jamie hernandez, Kenneth Howard, kenneth howard von dutch, knott's berry farm, kustom kulture, manwell pin striper, matt groening, michael manwaring, Milton Glaser, nathan gluck, peter bagge, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, stanley miller, steve heller, Steven Heller, Tom Wolfe
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with fins: trapped out of time
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