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Tag Archives: Shepard Fairey
indivisual artist: hallmarks of dialog
by Art Chantry: two blockheads. this is the sort of thing that sends contemporary amateurs into shivering fits of anger and jealousy. one of these people OBVIOUSLY ripped-off the other, right? i mean how can two images be any more … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, american graphic illustration, art chantry, Eric Hoffer, Eric Hoffer True Believer, Ernest Hemingway, graphic design, Isaac Asimoc I Robot, Isaac Asimov, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Shepard Fairey, Tomi Ingerer, von dutch
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pop culture wave: the big kahuna
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Endless Summer Monterey Media, 1966 Directed by Bruce Brown (b. 1937) Poster design by John Van Hamersveld (b. 1941) Countdown to Summer Vacation: Two Days. Not that I’ll be doing any surfing (sorry, I missed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Brown director, Get Carter movie poster, jesse marinoff reyes, John Van Hamersveld, John Van Hamersveld poster design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Shepard Fairey, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, Surfer Magazine John Van Hamersveld, The Endless Summer movie
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ballot box of brotherhood love: sphynx fetish
Normative democracy based on the rule of property law. Turkey light. That seems to be the template to be adopted. According to the Financial Times, the debt market is stabilizing and the stock market in Cairo is rising slowly. Egypt … Continue reading
collect the gag panels on them
by Art Chantry: this is something else i collect – little corporate booklets of cartoons. basically, big business likes to commission gag comix from cartoonists and publish them in their magazines and advertising. they think that means they ‘support the … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, charles addams, chuck jones, corporate booklets cartoons, Hallmark Cards, jackie onassis, Madame Pickwick, National Lampoon Rodriguez, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, ronald searle, Salvador dali, Shepard Fairey, spain rodriguez, Winston Churchill
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cherubs to gag and giggle
by Art Chantry: this guy is one of my favorite drek artists. i’ve seen his crummy little pastel drawings of “injun” cherubs on plates and posters and greeting cards and just about every other piece of tourist crap you can … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, dale chihuly, ettore "ted" deGrazia, injum chillens', kincaid paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, patrick nagel, Shepard Fairey, Ted deGrazia, thomas kincaid, vladimir tretchikoff
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those special shades
by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading
payback: you ain’t goin’ nowhere
There is such a big divide between the haves and have lesses and have nothing at alls that either this has always existed or that now it is in the realm of active engagement letting all manner of conspiracy theorists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill gates, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jennifer Baichwal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Atwood payback, Michael Ferguson, Shepard Fairey, the great gatsby, Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett Great Givers, Wuthering Heights Bronte
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the decorators: artistic purity?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) yesterday i wrote an essay about the shep fairey thing. as ususal, there were opinions tossed around all over the place. that subject is ripe for opinions – all of them lame except my own … Continue reading
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Tagged american graphic design, Andy Warhol, art chantry, graphic design, Jeff Koons, Keith Harring, Keith Herring, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Rand, Roy Lichtenstein, Shepard Fairey, Shepard Fairey Joe Strummer, stefan sagmeister
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swindles of all sizes
Art Chantry: i really hate high-end expensive ‘hipster lifestyle’ magazines. i avoid them like the plague. i know, i know – it’s the ‘cutting edge’ in graphic design, blah blah blah. but, they always seem so shallow and plastic and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Copyright laws, american graphic design, art chantry, Billy Idol, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm McLaren, Obama Hope posters, Shepard Fairey, Steve Jones The Sex Pistols, Swindle magazine, the clash, The Monkees, the sex pistols
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merely fresh kill
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) every decade has it’s little graphic design cliches. these are ubiquitous gimmicks and snappy ideas that seem to catch on like a fad and then get exhausted, yet persist long after it was ever clever. … Continue reading
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