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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
Dada was an anti-art-art movement; Art Chantry is an anti-design-designer
whose work has moved graphic design toward the raw aesthetic away from its
more elitist conventions. Chantry built his practice on the rejection of slick
professionalism and sterile modernism, and his work retains the DIY anarchic
look it had when he began in the 1970s. If it seems like a large segment of
contemporary designers works this way, it is because Chantry was doing
grunge typography long before it was popular. To make his anti-design, Chantry
dipped in the same well as the Dadaists, the reservoir of commonplace—or
vernacular—materials like old printers’ ...