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Nice print work by WPP Criola Propaganda, Natal, Brasil

Self-medication can be fatal

Advertising, Americas, Creative, Drugas, Graphic Arts, Health, PSA Brasil, Criola Propaganda, Health and Safety, Pharma, Print Ads, PSA, self-medication, WPP Brazil

Pedro Cavalcanti Clinic brings attention to the danger of self-medication. Very nice print work by WPP, Brazil for Clinica Pedro Cavalcanti. Advertising Agency: Criola Propaganda, Natal, Brazil

Ault and Wiborg Makers of FIne Printing and Lithographic Inks. Business Card.

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AULT & WIBORG

Advertising, Design, Graphic Arts, History, Illustration, Print, Typography 1900, Art Nouveau, Ault and Wiborg, Belle Époque, FIne Printing, Lithographic Inks, Poster Art, Typography, Vintage Posters, Will Bradley

At the end of the nineteenth century Ault & Wiborg Co. makers of fine printing and lithographic inks, were also the makers of the very best self-promotional pieces. All of the illustrations shown here are by William H. Bradley and done in 1900 with the exception of the final one […]

Hitchcock poses in front of a billboard for Psycho, 1960

9 Vintage Celebrity Selfies With Billboards

Advertising, Events, Film, History, Music, Vintage Abba, Alfred Hitchcock, Billboards, Charlton Heston, Classic Films, Elvis, Marcello Mastroianni, Marilyn Monroe, Music, OOH, Promotions, Selfies, Springsteen, The Doors

Lost of great Hitchcock Posters here.

Marmite Lovers Don’t Spread The Hate

Advertising, Food, Health, Print Adam&EveDDB UK, butter, Clever, Food, Marmalade, Marmite, Print Ads

Marmite is just one of those brands that’s in its own category. As the slogan goes you either love it or hate it. Adam&EveDDB UK have had a lot of fun with it over the years. For St Paddy’s Day in 2007 they launched a novelty Marmite Guinness, what’s not […]

Nice Vintage Rauch and Lang Electrics Ads

Advertising, Arts, History, Illustration, Print, Vintage Albert Lasker, C. Everett Johnson, Cal Arts, Chouinard, Cleveland, Disney, Electric Cars, FCB, Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency, Rauch & Lang, Vintage Ads

The first thing that struck me when I saw these car ads for Rauch & Lang was how Disney-like the lovely illustrations were. As it turns out I might not have been far off!

Frito-Lay + Forever 21 = Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Collection

Advertising, Fashion, Funny Advertising, Cheesy, Cheetos, Forever 21, Frito-Lay, Latinx, Marketing, Social Media, The Sartorialist

Just in time for the summer Frito-Lay and Forever 21 bring us the new Cheetos line Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. From mesh tops to branded socks and I think they’ve nailed it. As Chester Cheetah says “it’s not easy being cheesy”. More photos and shopping on Forever 21’s website.

Cocaine, Laudanum, Opium, Methedrine And The Good Doctor Battys’ Asthma Cigarettes… 5 Naive Vintage Pharma Ads

Advertising, Drugas, Print, Typography, Vintage Asthma Cigarettes, Dr Batty, Drugs, Laudanum, Methedrine, Naive, Opium, Vintage Ads

Dr. Batty’s cigarettes are not recommended for children under 6. But just look at the variety of lovely late 1800’s typefaces. Opium. Yesteryears‘ Fentanyl today. It’s hard to read but basically it’s saying opium is twice as strong as morphine. Sears, Roebuck and Co. where marketing laudanum as a sleep […]

The biggest rivalry in Atlanta this weekend… Pepsi Vs Coke

Advertising, Americas, Events, Print, Sport, Words etc Advertising Campaign, American Football, Atlanta, Billboards, Coca-Cola, Gotcha, LA Rams, LIII, NE Pats, OOH, Pepsi, Red & Blue, Rivalry, Super Bowl, Wild Postings

That’s right. Pepsi have waltzed into Atlanta with a major media spend. Over 350 billboards, train station dominations and other OOH postings. Pepsi are making a big splash in the house/hometown of Coca-Cola. The lines are very good too–with some bite. “Pepsi in Atlanta. How refreshing.”, “Look who’s in town for […]

Assortment of Old Magic Posters

Advertising, Design, History, Illustration, Performing Arts, Print Boston Public Library, BPL, Circus, Digital Commonwealth, KGB, Kio, Magic, Magician, Poster Art, Prints, Russia, Vintage Posters, Кио цирк

Kar-mi swallows a loaded gun barrel : and shoots a cracker from a man’s head.Sourced from Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts who have an amazing collection and mission. There isn’t a lot of information on the individual prints, what you see is what you get. By my reckoning they date from between […]

In Red Automobile to the Kingdom of Communism

Advertising, Design, History, Illustration, Print, Typography, Vintage, Words etc 1917, Block Prints, Bolsheviks, Bourgeoisie, Communism, Dmitrii Moor, Kulaks, New York Public Library, Poster Art, Proletariat, Propaganda, Revolution, Russia, Viktor Deni, Vintage Art, Vladimir Maiakovskii

An unusual series of Russian and Ukrainian Posters 1917-1921 “In Red Automobile to the Kingdom of Communism” Compared to the more colorful, conventional styled poster art of the Revolutionary period in Russia, this series seems quite primitive, naive. Perhaps it was to separate them from the Bourgeoisie past, I don’t know, […]