Last week I pointed to a hideous ad for Schenley’s whiskey that ran in Life magazine in 1947. It was notable for its attempts to use a cutesy cartoon character to sell alcohol. Well, goo-goo-g’joob.
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Schenley caused hallucinations in readers
Never heard of this whiskey before today, and given the ad that surfaced at Retro Press I think I can see why. Follow along with me as I reveal the nightmare to you, but only in pieces at a time, lest your mind be overwhelmed by too much ghastliness at once and you be driven into the netherest regions […]
Why SUVs and their owners deserve the same fate
A Colombian ad agency, promoting the Chevy Tahoe, has come up with an image that both sums up the mindset of SUV owners, and illustrates why the SUV can’t die soon enough: [Text reads, “The street is yours.”] And still Chevrolet can’t understand why their branding and message are obsolete.
Christard threats spread overseas
I’m not about to try to minimize the Muslim-backed insanity in Mumbai; I just thought I’d point out that Islam isn’t the only Abrahamic religion that has a virulent fundamentalist streak. While this poster advertising a bible camp in New Delhi isn’t as totally obnoxious as some Christard efforts I’ve seen, it’s up there. “If you don’t want to […]
This one works in a different way.
My only question after seeing the ending is why was she unbuttoning his jeans for him? Find more videos like this on AdGabber A fine one from AdRants.
Sometimes it works
Pain Without Borders offers a somber and effective reminder in this minute-long piece. Via Ads of the World.
Was Campbell’s using lead-sealed cans?
That actually used to happen, you know — soup and other cans were sealed with lead. One has to wonder if perhaps that wasn’t the sealant used for this product, especially given the models’ expressions of abjectly maniacal glee. In fact if the product weren’t visible, you’d have to wonder exactly what this woman was doing to […]
FinallyFast: Pretty slow
OK, take a look at this commercial. See if you notice anything wrong, apart from the presence of enough cheese to bind a goat. Pay attention to the talking heads — or, more particularly, the hardware they’re running: While FinallyFast.com might or might not offer a product that’s of merit, their commercial is of dubious value, since it […]
Rendered to its absolute basics
A cardinal rule of advertising is that sex sells. This might not seem sensible when one is contemplating, say, Little Debbie snack cakes,1 but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Mr. Clean is rather buff. While it might seem sensible to extol the virtues of a given product over another — performance, for instance, or […]
Set phasers on stunning
Earlier in the year the dojo had a Literary Extravaganza to raise money for tournament fees. We’re doing it again on November 8th, this time to get nonperishable food for donations. What’s nice is that a trio of performance artists from Flagstaff, Spoken Circus, will be there performing. Last time I saw something that impressive was in the […]
Pepsi: OMG FTW
Couple weeks back news surfaced that Pepsi was planning to change their logo from the standard roundel-with-a-stripe to something … well, lopsided and fugly. Brand New has the scoop, and wow, is this thing just bad. Pepsi alleges that the mark is meant to resemble a “smile”. Well, it doesn’t. It’s off balance, the proportions are […]
Nice little posters
Venezia Café in Romania is promoting wireless services in a fun way, one that appeals to the typography geek in me. Now that we’ve exhausted emoticons, I suppose emotibeverages are really the next frontier. I’m a little bummed that someone beat me to this, though I wouldn’t have much use for it anyway except to promote the hospital’s cafeteria… Via.
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