George Tscherny’s 1968 packaging design for Lark cigarettes.

Read more about the designs here.

Ikko Narahara is a Japanese photographer currently with an exhibition of photographs taken from the the 1950s - 1970s onwards being displayed in Cologne.

This is the gallery’s website.

This is an interview with Narahara where it’s a little easier to actually see some of his photographs.

The London College of Fashion have uploaded three sketchbooks worth of drawings from fashion designer Victor Stiebel between 1960 and 1963 before he died.

Take a look through all of the images, as well as further information about Stiebel HERE.

New Zealand are starting to get Mad Men on their screens, along with this fantastic advertising campaign, applying vinyl stickers to the side of buildings in homage to the show’s title sequence.

Designed by DraftCB, check out the original sequence here.

Source.

EDIT: As Luke points out… it certainly seems to work better to those who have seen the show, lest you believe Mad Men to be about 9/11. Maybe in America… In New Zealand I think they pull it off.

For my dissertation research I’ve been looking a lot through old American print ads from the 1950s.

This Flickr Collection in particular has been a goldmine:

The Golden Age of Advertising: 1950s - 1970s