I was at the library near my house looking at books on illustration and they had the one of the couple water-skiing. It's done by a very good illustrator named Earl Oliver Hurst, do a google image search on him he's got some yummy goodness lurking about!
wait...the father was beating the kid because his coffee was caffinated? and here i thought it was the booze that he was puting in it. maybe mr. Liquor should get over caffinated and "discipline" his boys! that'd be a lol and a half!
I don't think companies have been able to duplicate the bizarre products they made in the fifties. I mean can you image anything more surreal than getting your own potato for the original Mr.Potato head. I didn't forget about the creepy salesmen that stalks people into buying their products.
The commercial market is not like it was the fifties so many inventive products and ways to sell it.
Hey John, I'm not really sure where to tell you this, but I know you're a fan of Jamie Hewlett/Gorillaz, and their new video is supposed to come out on March 1st. There is one catch though; this time they're in CGI. I would definitely love to see your reaction to it when it's released, and whether or not you think they are actually successful at utilizing computer graphics.
They uploaded a preview online today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZ2GGh2ToE
You know, a cartoon about a type-A, Kirk Douglas-type, 50s dad cranked up on caffeine is a great concept. Mom decides to put him on Sanka and he goes ape. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY COFFEE?? IT'S NOT THE SAME ANYMORE! I NEED MY COFFEE!" Then he starts smashing the Look magazine house to pieces. "WITHOUT MY COFFEE I MIGHT DO SOMETHING CRAZY -- LIKE RIP THE PLASTIC COVERS RIGHT OFF THE FURNITURE!" Things escalate ... "I MIGHT GIVE MR. KRUSHCHEV A PIECE OF MY MIND!"
This world needs a serious design revolution, back to the good ol' days of design that makes sense. Look what I found at Target. I think General Mills read your one of your post: old school GM package designs brought back
But even these don't look as cool as some of the old designs you posted in previous blog entries.
Hey, I had to use a real spud for my Mr. Potato Head! I'd outgrown the toy when they started coming with a hard plastic "potato," but I instantly knew it was lame and would have ruined the fun for me. The plastic potato came with holes where you had to stick the parts; with a real potato, you - the kid - had total control over where things went. A big part of the creativity went out when Mr. P.H. went plastic.
I love the way that top example leads the eye to the text. Great stuff.
Has anyone ever checked out Andrew Loomis' books, specifically Creative Illustration? I found it to be a great way to learn some composition skills for advertising.
Video games (e.g., BioShock, Fallout) are making 50s and 60s style ad art cool again.
Don't be surprised if more companies hop on this bandwagon.
Sometimes -- once in a while -- the trendoids make a right move. What we need is a sort of cultural rectifier that selects for all the good ideas and filters out the bad ones.
Spanking bad children is instant universal appeal according to ad agencies of the 50s.
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I just had to find the bigger version of that Sanka ad - that's awesome.
That kid definitely felt the wrath of caffein[e].
I was at the library near my house looking at books on illustration and they had the one of the couple water-skiing. It's done by a very good illustrator named Earl Oliver Hurst, do a google image search on him he's got some yummy goodness lurking about!
I really love the first one- so simple and energetic. I like the Dodge Wayfarer too, because it reads like a comic.
wait...the father was beating the kid because his coffee was caffinated? and here i thought it was the booze that he was puting in it. maybe mr. Liquor should get over caffinated and "discipline" his boys! that'd be a lol and a half!
I don't think companies have been able to duplicate the bizarre products they made in the fifties. I mean can you image anything more surreal than getting your own potato for the original Mr.Potato head. I didn't forget about the creepy salesmen that stalks people into buying their products.
The commercial market is not like it was the fifties so many inventive products and ways to sell it.
My favorite one is the ad for DODGE. Man, it makes living in 1950s-era USA look like a great time!
50s ad agencies totally understood the appeal of spanking
Hey John, I'm not really sure where to tell you this, but I know you're a fan of Jamie Hewlett/Gorillaz, and their new video is supposed to come out on March 1st. There is one catch though; this time they're in CGI. I would definitely love to see your reaction to it when it's released, and whether or not you think they are actually successful at utilizing computer graphics.
They uploaded a preview online today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZ2GGh2ToE
Oh and *March 2nd, sorry
The Wayfarer ad has a nice Bruce McCall feel to it. It reminds me of his "Bulgemobile" series: "The cars that say -- 'GET OUT OF MY WAY!'"
You know, a cartoon about a type-A, Kirk Douglas-type, 50s dad cranked up on caffeine is a great concept. Mom decides to put him on Sanka and he goes ape. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY COFFEE?? IT'S NOT THE SAME ANYMORE! I NEED MY COFFEE!" Then he starts smashing the Look magazine house to pieces. "WITHOUT MY COFFEE I MIGHT DO SOMETHING CRAZY -- LIKE RIP THE PLASTIC COVERS RIGHT OFF THE FURNITURE!" Things escalate ... "I MIGHT GIVE MR. KRUSHCHEV A PIECE OF MY MIND!"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375851216/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
Great stuff. Check out the preview for this book!
These are mostly boring and wordy.
This world needs a serious design revolution, back to the good ol' days of design that makes sense. Look what I found at Target. I think General Mills read your one of your post:
old school GM package designs brought back
But even these don't look as cool as some of the old designs you posted in previous blog entries.
Hey, I had to use a real spud for my Mr. Potato Head! I'd outgrown the toy when they started coming with a hard plastic "potato," but I instantly knew it was lame and would have ruined the fun for me. The plastic potato came with holes where you had to stick the parts; with a real potato, you - the kid - had total control over where things went. A big part of the creativity went out when Mr. P.H. went plastic.
I love the way that top example leads the eye to the text. Great stuff.
Has anyone ever checked out Andrew Loomis' books, specifically Creative Illustration? I found it to be a great way to learn some composition skills for advertising.
the first is uber cool. UBER.
The color in the top one is amazing. And I love how the water was done.
@Ebbe - But do you NEED to read the boring, wordy parts to know what the product is?
So simple yet so thoughtful and artistic at the same time.
Video games (e.g., BioShock, Fallout) are making 50s and 60s style ad art cool again.
Don't be surprised if more companies hop on this bandwagon.
Sometimes -- once in a while -- the trendoids make a right move. What we need is a sort of cultural rectifier that selects for all the good ideas and filters out the bad ones.
How very odd that "Ayds" is no longer marketed.
As to the Sanka ad, there was a lengthy comic strip campaign for Postum, featuring the dread Mr. Coffee Nerves!
http://www.sparehed.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/postum360112.jpg
For those who don't hemorrhage at the thought of Lileks, there is a good compendium of the creepier Postum ads.
http://www.lileks.com/comics/coffeenerves/index.html
I love these old ads, but I swear I can't look at them without thinking about the old Mad Magazine parodies of these type of ads.
Give me this stuff any day over the crappy photoshop garbage we get today. :(
I love these old ads, but I swear I can't look at them without thinking about the old Mad Magazine parodies of these type of ads.
Give me this stuff any day over the crappy photoshop garbage we get today. :(
Bigger version of the Sanka ad is here.
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