MetaFilter posts tagged with Advertising and design

More Madness

mattdidthat — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:03:36 -0800

The Footnotes of Mad Men explores and discusses the historic events, themes, and cultural mores of the show.

Awards can't save forests.

divabat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:25:57 -0800

Awards can't feed the hungry. (via, with supporting links)

19th century artistic printing

mediareport — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:41:44 -0800

Beautifully designed, quirky, colorful late 19th-century "artistic" and "gaslight" printing at Dick Sheaff's ephemera pages. [via, via] Info here. There's a book, too.

Waffle Whiffer: for all your thirtysomething's childhood nostalgia needs

mathowie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:29:47 -0800

If you love 1970s food-related advertising mascots as much as I do, you'll probably love Waffle Whiffer's blog. Loads of old posts on fast food characters, sugar cereal boxes, and even pogs! The Waffle Whiffer's flickr stream is a similar treasure trove of goodies with too many worth mentioning. Ok, just one: who knew the Thompson Twins had such great iconography (and why did they do a deal with Cap'n Crunch?)?

L'Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

jack_mo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:48 -0800

A complete archive of French magazine L'Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It's a treasure trove for fans of fashion, photography, advertising and design. Via On Shadow (possibly NSFW), which I found via Things.

Lovely Package

chunking express — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:39:42 -0800

Lovely Package: The leading source for the very best that package design has to offer.

Think. Again.

Non Prosequitur — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:40:38 -0800

From The Atlantic, a fun bunch of montages of interesting people answering questions like "What is the cost of being a nerd?", "When is evil cool?" and "Are good books bad for you?" (Accompanies a redesign of magazine as well as of the web site. In seeking readers and advertisers, publications like The Atlantic and The Economist, known as thought-leader magazines, have long tried to make up in cleverness what they lack in wallet power.)

Poster Blue

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:50:50 -0800

Antrepo Design have created an alternate set of film posters regarding the 'brand integration' ie product placement in a number of movies. Lynch on the matter (NSFW).

Polaroid Packaging, the Apple of its Day

Chinese Jet Pilot — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:38:51 -0800

The Branding of Polaroid 1957-1977: How we beat Eastman Kodak and its little yellow boxes at point of purchase despite a clunky product and an irrelevant corporate name. Graphic designer Paul Giambarba blogs about his experience creating Polaroid's iconic corporate identity, product packaging and print advertising while freelancing for Polaroid through the company's rise and fall.

Everybody here go BANG!

klangklangston — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:55:32 -0800

Gun for the whole family. A Scanning Around With Gene article about historic gun ads. More fun with Gene Gable: Cigarettes, diving, winter fonts, red white and blue, and so much more.

The Future: Apparently It's Much More 80s Than You Anticipated

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:15:20 -0800

The British Olympic Committee unveiled the logo and branding for London 2012 today, at a cost of £400,000 (USD796,000). Reaction has been swift - a petition to change the logo or go back to the old one has already reached 10,000 signatures.

Two lip-sticked seal-panda babes swimming through the seas of dried noodles while having a drink...

jokeefe — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:39:46 -0800

Japanese packaging design: snack characters. From the awesome Pingmag (previously 1, 2, 3). Via AT Chicago. Also recently in Pingmag: First Generation Graffiti in Iran.

Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo’s train stations

Tlogmer — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:20:41 -0800

Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo’s train stations

Human Beans

ronsens — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:05:49 -0800

Human Beans Fictional Products. The Karmaphone, the Live Cigarettes and more

Retrolounge

pedantic — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:12:08 -0800

Retrolounge is a compendium of the next new thing in design, art, architecture and fashion. I kid! Truly, go-go boots make me swoon.

Provertising

Niahmas — Sun, 25 May 2003 10:24:08 -0800

Flash Animation A response to an article about Advertising.

Get me a ticket for an aeroplane...

Vidiot — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 06:44:52 -0800

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera . Amazing collection of posters, road maps, steamship and airline timetables, (more timetables here), post cards, luggage labels (more labels here and here), brochures and more. Seeing this stuff makes me wish I had been born seventy-five years earlier (and with an obscene amount of money.) (Warning: the site is seriously painful to look at, but the content's good. Link via Coudal.)

Spoon — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 02:06:55 -0800

More design through the ages....