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weill done: a weill deal
by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Bertolt Brecht, Frasconi, Ivan Chermayeff, Joseph Albers, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mario Lanza, Milton Glaser, Neil S. Fujita, push pin studios, Richard M. Powers, Richard Powers, robert brownjohn, Searle, seymour chwast
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single handedly george and samurai lumberjack
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) everybody knows all about the eames chair designs. in fact, right now, everything ‘charles and ray eames’ is solid-gold cool standard. whenever my designer friends start talking about 20th century modernism, they always immediately blurt, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged american design culture, atomic clock, bill renwick, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Eames, don chadwick, donald knorr, Eames Design, ernest farmer, european design culture, george mulhauser, george nelson modernism, george nelson quatsino artist, harry bertoia, herman miller furniture, irving harper, isamu noguchi, Ray Eames, richard schultz, robert brownjohn, sara anderson, suzanne sekey, tobias o'mara
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life’s a beach
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): it’s monday. it’s august. it’s bloody hot outside. the news cycle is full of extremely idiotic crap. everybody is broke and feeling it. it’s the dog days. we all need a break and we’re not gonna … Continue reading
suave cool and hip in stereo
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) if you were suave and hip and cool and a young bachelor in the post-war period (the early/mid 50’s) you had a Hi-Fidelity music system. that’s where we get the phrase “Hi-Fi” from. it was the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol record covers, art chantry, don martin record covers, Ivan Chermayeff, joe meek, Josef Albers, robert brownjohn, stereo sound effects record, Tennessee Williams
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good vibrations: still cool after all these years
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
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Tagged 23 envelope, Bauhaus Art, bauhaus design, Chris Burden, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, genesis p. orridge, Ivan Chermayeff, Jamie Reid, phase 2, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, robert brownjohn, Robert Williams, survival research laboratories, tom geismar, von dutch, Walter Gropius
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let it bleed: lame brand images
Missing You. Memo From Turner: the Rolling Stones graphics really suck. Lame and tame. You can’t always get what you want, but….. unless you really care….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This poster/advert/whatever for the 1975 Rolling Stones world tour (specifically promoting … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, annie leibovitz, Charlie Watts, christian piper, Elton John, graphic design, guy peeleart, john pasche, jon van hammersveld, Keith Richards, mark marek, Richard Avedon, robert brownjohn, robert frank, stefan sagmeister, steve sagmeister, The Rolling Stones, tibor kalman
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