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Howdy 7Up!
I became interested in pop bottles (I grew up in the Chicago area where we all said "pop") and related stuff when I was about 12 years old. I had gone inside an old garage that was attached to a...
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The Advertising Power of Comic Book Artists
In the early part of the twentieth century the first American cartoonists were the superstars of their times. Their work was received by an adoring audience, they earned lucrative contracts and toured...
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Pigheaded Demopublicans
Both U.S. political parties are playing politics with food aid. And Oxfam America is angry. Their recent advertising campaign, created by Hill Holliday, USA, "Tell Washington to Stop Playing with Food...
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Who You Calling Mister?
The one and onlyWe all know about Mr. Clean. He's been a household fave for ages—and currently, with that sparkling earring and chrome dome of his, quite the hipster too. Mr. Peanut, top hat and all,...
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Fake Products, Real Feelings: Rob Walker on His Exhibition of Branding...
Between his long-running Consumed column for The New York Times Magazine and his 2008 book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, it is highly probable that nobody thinks...
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An Ad with a Story to Tell
Saul Bass was a master visual storyteller and an inveterate wit, as Jenifer Bass and Pat Kirkham's wonderful professional biography illuminates. His film titles alone are enough to land him in the...
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Illustration Makes The Man
Clothes, they say, make the man. But in the world of early-20th-century advertisements, illustrators made the man that wore the clothes that made the man. Just look how self-satisfied this gent appears...
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Eric Gill, Australian Mad Men, and the Ultimate Books on Typography and Printing
Paul Soady doesn't care that Eric Gill had sex with his sister, his daughters, and his family dog. He's simply in love with the art and typography of this controversial artist, writer, and designer of...
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Hand Drawn Design from Cover to Cover
In 1927, Samuel Welo published his first edition of "Studio Handbook: Letter And Design For Artists And Advertisers." But this collection of fonts, ornaments, logos and other ad elements was not only...
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Typographic Logos that Missed
IKEA Changes Typeface After 60 Years; Customers Start Petition In 2009, Swedish furniture retailer IKEA changed its typographic logo from Futura to Verdana."I thought that something had gone terribly...
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