Tag Archives: Pushpin design

great zonkers

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is an important package design in the history of american marketing. it basically sold buttery caramel glossy popcorn in a useless fancy-pants package and completely blew open the hipster munchies market. prior to this product hit … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged art chantry, counterculture marketing, john alcorn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Glaser, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, seymour chwast, Zonkers food | Leave a comment

moods for moderns

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Art

Modernism has become retro…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): For my money, the philosophical dialog of ‘modernism’ is probably the most important and the single most interesting and intriguing intellectual/creative discussion of the last century, maybe even in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american design culture, american design history, american graphic design, Andy Warhol, el lissitzky, el lizitsky, frank stella, frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Lester Beall, modernism, Paul Rand, Pushpin design, rauchenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, william golden | Leave a comment

good vibrations: still cool after all these years

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Art

From the Bauhaus to your house… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the pantheon of graphic design professionals, there are very very few who have reached the levels occupied by Ivan Chermayeff. He’s considered one of the grand masters of 20th century … Continue reading →