Tag Archives: john alcorn

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

launching a thousand covers

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i think john alcorn is one of those guys who launched a thousand ships and everybody else took credit for what they took from him. from marshall mcluhan to the yippies? i’d say that’s a big … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Eldridge Cleaver, Jerry Rubin, john alcorn, Marshall McCluhan, Milton Glaser, murray mccain, quentin fiore | Leave a comment

cover artists

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) norman laliberte is a great hero of mine. he was endlessly experimental and took whatever medium was laying around (or just invented) and did brilliant iconic work in that medium. every single things i’ve seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged american illustration, art chantry, graphic illustration, Herb Lubalin, john alcorn, Judith Thurman, norman laliberte | Leave a comment

cover stories

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) Milton Glaser, 1964. take the main character, draw her. make her look like the movie. try to ape the current popular crosshatch style (pioneered by john alcorn at pushpin.) whatever. just not impressed, … nice … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, c. day lewis, edward gorey, enrico arno, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, pushpin studios | 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

well executed mediocrity

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Art

graphic decoration. what we learned in school…. by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): Back in grade school and even junior high school (mostly called “middle school” these days. apparently somebody thought that being called “junior” anything was damaging to our sensitive … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american graphic design, american graphic design history, art chantry, collage/montage style, contemporary graphic design, Herb Lubalin, john alcorn, lou dorfsman, Peter Max, pushpin studios | Leave a comment

nothing is real: hipster fake psych look

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Art

A look at yellow submarine, a pop culture adventure with the blue meanies… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): I know it sounds crazy, but when you ask 99.9% of Americans, “who did the animation in the movie, “Yellow Submarine?”” they say, “Peter … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged al brodax, alan aldridge, art blog, Brian Epstein, Brian Epstein Beatles, Heinz Edelmann, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, norman laliberte, Peter Max, pushpin studios, Roy Lichtenstein, seymour chwast, tad yokoo, Terry Gilliam, victor moscoso | Leave a comment

maxxed out to the max

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Dave

peter max….. the illustrator next door. Copy. Appropriate. But is there some genuine style? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Everybody is sick of Peter Max, right? He’s become the ultimate cliche of the 1960′s, right up there with peace signs and flower … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Art Nouveau, Bernie Fuchs, brad holland, Heinz Edelmann, john alcorn, Milton Glaser, penny goldsmith, Peter Max, seymour chwast | 1 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 →