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Art Chantry
The graphic design legend has a new book and thoughts on his hometown By Todd Matthews, Editor One recent Friday afternoon, Art Chantry, the graphic designer who created a look and style that singularly evoked Seattle's music scene during the 1990s, was wrapping up a long interview at a downtown Tacoma cafe when he paused for a moment to reflect on his career. Over the course of two hours, Chantry had covered a lot of ground—growing up in the Parkland neighborhood of Tacoma; moving to Seattle, where he was art director of The Rocket, the influential magazine that covered the Pacific Northwest music scene long before the world turned its attention to it; creating posters or album covers for bands "Tacoma has got and record labels that inreal folks. I can cluded Soundgarden, Pearl actually survive Jam, Mudhoney, Neko and understand this Case, Presidents of the town," said graphic United States of America, designer Art Chantry The Fastbacks, Sub Pop, of his hometown. Estrus Records, and Rhino Chantry spent most Records; and returning to of the 1990s creating Tacoma in 2006, where he posters and album lives today near the city's covers for some of the McKinley Hill neighborbiggest rock bands in hood. the Pacific Northwest. "It's been a fascinat(PHOTO BY TODD ing trip," Chantry, 60, reMATTHEWS) marked as he touched a color portfolio of his work. "Doing an interview like this, I find myself looking back over it and talking about it in a weird way, but it really has been a weird trip. I wouldn't trade my career for anybody's. It hasn't been a lot of fun all the time. I would have liked to have had better money, but look what I got to do. Isn't that amazing? Not a lot of people get a chance to do even one thing like this, and I got to do thousands of these." Chantry's work has been on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Smithsonian, Seattle Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, but it hasn't been an easy career. He says he has lived paycheck to paycheck for most of his life. The graphic design world has changed since computers and cheap software were introduced, and Chantry says his services aren't needed like they were twenty years ago. As a result, he has recently branched out into writing. His new book, Art Chantry CONTINUED Speaks: A Heretic's History of ON PAGE 2