Art Chantry

Art Chantry, director of the Rocket newspapers which documented Seattle's music scene in the 90s. He created many groundbreaking posters and album covers for bands from the Pacific Northwest, including Nirvana, Gang of Four, Hole and The Sonics. He has been making posters since he was fifteen. His major influences were a lot of forms of "outsider art", such as monster magazines, hot-rod art, and psychedelic culture as well. Posters which he created at that time were very innovative, he found his inspiration for that innovation in article on Polish posters.

He made his posters of American Vernacular, Throwaway visual language, old newspaper ads, catalogue parts. He liked to use what looked like a cheap ad but with the new technological sharpness of photography & print. He finds himself in the Seattle at the punk scene, which originally his design had relation with, just creating posters for local rock concerts. His king of design, known as by his low-tech and high contrast approach influenced generations of poster artists. 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.

References:

Search Artists / American Art. 2014. Search Artists / American Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?ID=7244. [Accessed 27 January 2014].

Art Chantry | Biography, Life, Work, Logos and Awards . 2014. Art Chantry | Biography, Life, Work, Logos and Awards . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.famouslogos.net/art-chantry/. [Accessed 27 January 2014].