Tag Archives: seymour chwast

weill done: a weill deal

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | 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 | Leave a comment

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

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

fakin’ it

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: here is another great example of that “fake psychedelic” bubble style illustration that we all love so much (sorry i can’t fit the whole unfolded LP cover on my scanner.). the situation here is not that it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged art chantry, Cyrk Posters, Heinz Edelmann, Ian Curtis Joy Division, john alcorn, Johnny Lydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Glaser, Peter Max, PIL Public Image Limited, push pin studios, Rick Griffin, seymour chwast, Stanislaw Zagorski, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, Velvet Underground Loaded, wes wilson, Wheels of Fire LP | Leave a comment

killing time club: edumacation

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is an advert for one of those horrible “TIME, INC.” book clubs from the 1960′s. i don’t know how long it was around (the oldest examples i have are from the mid 1960′s). it was one … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alan E. Cober, Aldous Huxley, alexy brodovitch, American illustration 1960's, antonio frasconi, art chantry, Dylan Thomas, Jacob Landau, James McMullen, James Thurber, Joseph Low, leo & diane dillon, Louis di Valentin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Paul Hogarth, ronald searle, seymour chwast, Thomas Jefferson, Thrift Store Collectibles, Time Inc. book clubs, Time-Life magazine, tomi ungerer, TRP books | Leave a comment

americana as cultural habitat

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged david axelrod, Edward Sorel, josh higgins obama 2012, Leo Sorel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Glaser, Norman Rockwell, Otto Dix, push pin studios, seymour chwast | Leave a comment

graphic standard disposable

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Art

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, ghosthunters television show, graphic design, hans edelmann, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, Norman Rockwell, Peter Max, push pin studios, seymour chwast, supergraphics style | Leave a comment

mits: the coolest

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) CA (Communication Arts), Vol. 1, No. 2, September 1959 issue Design and Illustration: Mits Katayama Art Director: Richard Coyne I startling and joyous find amidst a pile of misc. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged art brown, bob cramm, communication arts magazine, graphic design, irwin caplan cartoonist, jesse marinoff reyes, mits katayama, Print Magazine, r.o. blechman, richard coyne, seattle central community college, seattle woodland park zoo, seymour chwast, ted rand | Leave a comment

you know my method, watson

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design , Maplewood, N.J.) The Return of Sherlock Holmes Penguin Books, 1986 Illustration and Design: Paul Davis (b. 1938)/Paul Davis Studio This is what’s called a TV tie-in (or movie tie-in) design. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Burke, derek lamb, edward gorey, Edward Hardwicke, Ivan Chermayeff, Jeremy Brett, joseph papp, joseph papp public theatre, paul davis design, paul davis studio, paula scher, Robert Downey Jr., seymour chwast, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the return of sherlock holmes | Leave a comment

members only

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) poster for notorious 1970′s sex club “Dante’s Inferno” by Seymour Chwast.so, my question is simple: was seymour chwast a member?