Tag Archives: Rick Griffin

get inspired: spontaneous creationism

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) AFTER all these years of thrashing around in thrift stores looking for cool junk, i FINALLY started to look in the book section usually labeled “inspirational”. this is the section in the back (or in … Continue reading →

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death cover

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) rolling stone magazine’s ‘death covers’ are the koolest krap ever. i think this brian jones cover from august 1969 (#39) is the first of them (perhaps you can help me on this). since then, there’s been … Continue reading →

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transform: altered states

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): I’m fascinated by how often advertising and design folks end up turning to crackpot extremist religions later in life. why is that? it seems to be a larger percentage than you’d expect. the beliefs they turn … Continue reading →

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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

sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Art

Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading →

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still figgering it out

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Dave

Getting beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading →

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the snub of the authorless vernacular category

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Dave

The Evergreen Theaters and a mystery man of American graphic design…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) This is a mystery. maybe you can solve it. For years I’ve collected old type books (an obsession). During the course of gathering together all that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american graphic design, art chantry, carbarga, graphic design, Herschfield, leslie carbaga, Rick Griffin, robert laing, Robert Laing design, ross f. george, seymour chwast, speedball pen system | Leave a comment

under wraps: taming the great unwashed

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Art

“Adult” humor as Art points can be something of a misnomer….. Art Chantry:This is some ‘adult’ humor. why do they call this ‘adult’, when it’s so embarrassingly juvenile and stupid that it only appeals to pre-adolescents? what’s the word for … Continue reading →

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PARADISE LOST

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Dave

On looking back on 2009, one of the most telling signposts was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The film ”Taking Woodstock” appeared to be filled with inaccuracies, stereotypes and false archetypes which folded back onto each … Continue reading →