decorative design about decoration
by Art Chantry ( art@artvhantry.com) Cool as meaningless decor….hated nest ( magazine). thought it was really really bad and ignorantly designed by an amateur . i couldn’t look at it without getting...
View Articlesaint paul : step on the hem of his garment
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) …the truth as i see it is that that paul rand had the good fortune to be a great arrogant hustler/salesman. he arrived late on the scene, stole from the best of the...
View Articlebauhaus: mickey maus austerity
Walter Gropius soon realized that his vision could not be realized by one man alone. What was needed was a laboratory of design in which a new generation of artists could apply the discoveries of...
View Articlekipling the esoteric: the a.r.k. man
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) rudyard kipling is a very famous name in literature. for instance, he was the very first english speaking recipient (and the youngest) of the nobel prize in...
View Articled.s. martin
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Jazz at the Philharmonic, 78 album Stinson (Asch) Records, 1946 Illustration and Design: David Stone Martin (1913-1992) According...
View Articlefight of obstinate visionaries
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) The Lonely Rebels Golden Griffin Books/Arts Inc., 1951 Design: Ladislav Sutnar Collecting three novelettes—Mister Lorenz, The...
View Articlepowers that are
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) The Beast MacFadden, 1964 Illustration: Richard M. Powers (1921-1996) Despite a monograph of his paintings that was published a...
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Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In 1955, Tennessee Williams’s now-immortal play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cover design is by...
View Articlemaster of overstatement
An illustrator we don’t get much exposure to anymore: John Osborn. He was not just an illuminator of other people’s texts, but mainly, most importantly, a social critic of penetrating qualities given...
View Articlesub genius : trust your heroes?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in the early 1980’s, the church of the sub-genius was just as “out there” and just as scary fucking dangerous as survival research laboratories. what SRL was...
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