There used to be a time when designers were trained in the history of composition. Now you just buy a fuckin’ piece of software and now you’ve become a designer.
‘Art Chantry . . . Is he a Luddite?’ asks a Rhode Island School of Design poster promoting a Chantry lecture. ‘Or is he a graphic design hero?’
For decades this avatar of low-tech design has fought against the cheap and easy use of digital software. Chantry’s homage to expired technology, and his inspired use of Xerox machines and X-Acto blade cuts of printed material, created a much-copied style during the grunge period and beyond.
Chantry’s designs were published in Some People Can’t Surf: The Graphic Design of Art Chantry (Chronicle Books), exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and the Louvre.
More recently, Chantry has drawn upon his extraordinary collection of twentieth-century graphic art to create compelling histories of the forgotten and unknown on essays he has posted on his Facebook page. These essays might lionize the unrecognized illustrators of screws, wrenches, and pipes in equipment catalogs. Other posts might reveal how some famous artists were improperly recognized.
Art Chantry Speaks is the kind of opinionated art history you’ve always wanted to read but were never assigned.
Table of Content
Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of Graphic
Design
I. Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg?
Yellow Submarine, Peter Max, and the Push Pin Boys
Alvin Lustig, Forgotten Godfather
Nathan Gluck and Andy Warhol, Mentor and Pupil
Richard M. Powers, the king of Sci Fi Art
Cal Schenkel, the Man Behind Zappa’s Design
Jim Phillips, Skate Graphics Genius
Russ Meyer and Camera Clubs
Robert Crumb vs. the World
Big Daddy Roth and Kustom Kuture
II. What Grabs Ya? The Visual Language and Psychology of
Graphic Design
Propaganda
Sex, Laffs, and Terror: 3 Branches of Magazine Design
You Know You Need It: The Auto Polish Story
III. You Know It When You See It: Groups, Logos and Brands
The Happy Face
Sister Corita Kent and Religious Graphic Design
“Hallmark Psychedelia”
Behind the Starbucks Logo (Doug Fast)
About the author
Art Chantry: Art is a graphic designer most often associated with the logos, posters and album art he created for countless punk, grunge and rock bands and their labels. . His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Louvre.
Monica René Rochester: Born and raised in South Carolina before becoming a West Coast Convert in the 90’s, Monica has worked and played in the music and book industries for the past 20+ years, while keeping a hand (and scissors!) in the fine arts field as a collagist.
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