Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

Illustration: Guy Peellaert


"Belgian advertising illustrator Guy Peellaert was one of the first cartoonists to embrace Pop Art and incorporate Andy Warhol's appropriation of mass market iconography into his work. His first comic..."
...continue reading at The World of Kane.

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Vintage Tobacco: Adamas Cigarettes


"The most famous, and much coveted, Danish billboard is the Adamas Cigarettes billboard from 1928 made by Johs. Thejll of Copenhagen for American Tobacco Company. It was drawn by the Danish advertising illustrator Aage Lippert." says Danish billboard collector Søren Christensen at his site Emaljskilte. (Enamel porcelain coated signs)

You will find a couple of signs on this page and one here and here . Evidently the Adamas character that was created became such a success that they published books about him. However, according to Christensen, the cigarette brand never became a big hit and it seized to exist in 1942.

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Flickr: 1950s - 1970s Advertising




1950s - 1970s Advertising - a set on Flickr
by Pink Ponk

"Posters, Magazine Advertisements, Brochures, Booklets, Publishing, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Packaging, Logotypes, Trade-Marks, Letterheads, Exhibitions, Show-windows... Graphic design, illustrations and printed artwork in general"

Via The Cartoonist

Vintage ads: Take me to the cleaners!









Vintage cleaners ads
from public transport in Stockholm. Click the images to enlarge!

From a book called Reklam i rörelse (Advertisment in motion) published by Trafik-Nostalgiska Förlaget (in Swedish)
Buy "Reklam i rörelse"
here. It's a great book with loads of images and it only costs about eight bucks!!

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Commercial: Potato Chips - 1962


Clip added by cinema16



"This was an ad that was shown in Drive in theaters to try and get people to buy snack chip"
I'd buy 'em!

/mrdantefontana

Chevrolet sings


Posted by Hello

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