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color blind testing: buried in the connected dots
by Art Chantry: been looking for one of these for decades. finally found one in a goodwill yesterday (for a buck)! a very cool ‘color blindness’ test book. official name: “pseudo-isochromatic plates for testing color perception”, by the american optical … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, Alvin Lustig Gentry magazine, american graphic design, American Optical Company, art chantry, color blindness test book, color code test pages, Gentry magazine, Gentry magazine tip-ins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pseudo-isochromatic plates
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cinematic eye
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: …collagist and photographer, Marc Yankus. He and I have collaborated on a number of assignments over the years and Yankus’s work was always the “easy part.” I knew his effort would be beautiful, and possessing of a … Continue reading
their generation: digging the hip
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: TALKIN’ ‘BOUT THE BEAT G-G-G-G-GENERATION: Here’s a small sampling of how Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers were presented in their time, and from the relatively recent past. Dig it man. More inspiration from the archives… The … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, Beat Writers, book of haikus jack kerouac, grove press, Herb Lubalin, Jack Kerouac, jesse marinoff reyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Paul Rand, roy kuhlman, the evergreen review, William S. Burroughs
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tin roofs
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 the incomparable Alvin Lustig—New Directions’s house designer/art … Continue reading
spearheading
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading
looking smart
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is what a smart book looks like. new directions paperbacks were throughout the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s the quintessential image of intelligence. all you had to do was walk around with one tucked under your … Continue reading
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Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, Andre Gide, art chantry, dover books, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, gilda kuhlman, Herman Hesse, James Agee, james laughlin, Jean Paul Sartre, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nathaniel West, new directions paperbacks, trade paperback books, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan
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cover the musical metaphor
Context is almost everything.And when the two are in harmony you have a magical visual language… He was one of the pioneers in creating the record album cover; an artistic approach to packaging beginning in 1939, that incorporated free-form design … Continue reading
about the birds and the bees
Its 1972. Smut, murder and death on the streets as well as the killing fields of Vietnam. ….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com ) : This is the valentine’s day, 1972, issue of the legendary SCREW magazine (cover by “Babe” – a … Continue reading
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