Find a nicely curated little collection of Japanese advertising prints from the 1950s 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.

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

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

Came across this great vintage advertisement for Helvetica. It’s rare you see advertising for fonts these days, and it’s even greater to see it with such a human approach reminiscent of vintage cigarette adverts and pretty much anything else from 1950s America. See the hi-res here.

Came across this great vintage advertisement for Helvetica.

It’s rare you see advertising for fonts these days, and it’s even greater to see it with such a human approach reminiscent of vintage cigarette adverts and pretty much anything else from 1950s America.

See the hi-res here.