December 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Advertising inserted into a 1972 science-fiction paperback by A. E. Van Vogt.
Paul Collins, Smoke This Book:
“The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American Library. Despite the lofty name, the group’s real purpose was to sell advertisements in paperbacks, and its first target was the biggest success of them all: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.” A 1959 Pocket Books print run of 500,000 included advertisements by Q-Tips, Carnation and Procter & Gamble. By 1963, a 26-page insert in Spock was commanding $6,500 to $7,500 per page, and ads were spreading into mysteries and other pulps as well.”
Tags: advertising,books
December 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: advertising,feminism,history,sexism
October 31st, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: advertising,health,infoporn,map
October 19th, 2007 · Comments Off

Improv Everywhere (We Cause Scenes): No Shirts
“For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York.”
Tags: abercrombie and fitch,advertising,improv everywhere,marketing
June 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: advertising,bbc,bbc world,media,usa
February 24th, 2007 · Comments Off
Gawker: “The Banana Republic ad with the architects—it’s everywhere! And it raised some questions for us. So we asked an architect—we’ll call him Frankie Lloyd—who works at “a large firm downtown with an eccentric, megalomaniac starchitect at the helm” how the ad stacked up to his reality. “
Tags: advertising,architecture,banana republic
January 21st, 2007 · Comments Off
The Ad Generator: “The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. ” (via)
Tags: advertising,art,flickr,photography,zero content
October 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“A weblog about newspaper design”
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“Het Sandberg Instituut is momenteel druk bezig met het kunst-project ‘Artvertising. Reclame wordt Kunst!’. Begin december wordt de gevel van het Instituut opgefleurd door ontelbaar veel advertentie billboards. “
Tags: advertising,amsterdam,art,billboards,newspaper,sandberg instituut
May 31st, 2006 · Comments Off
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“L’élégance et le charme sont mis en valeur par les plus grands illustrateurs de publicité et de mode : R.Gruau, P-L.Brenot, P.Simon, Bosc, C.Bérard, G.Demachy, Delfau, Vertès …et bien d’autres… “
Tags: advertising,fashion,france
May 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
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Toegewijd voyeurisme.
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Clever and clear.
Tags: advertising,photography,voyeurism
May 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: adidas,advertising,ams-ix,amsterdam,internet,nl,terrorism,video
May 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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” neo-urbanism action drama “
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“De Endstra Tapes beslaan 254 pagina’s en zijn opgenomen in periode tussen 20 maart 2003 en 28 januari 2004. “
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“In this period the three mayor search engines requested more than one million pages of the tree, from more than hundred thousand different URLs. “
Tags: adidas,advertising,amsterdam,bots,crime,dmwh,nl,search,video,web,willem endstra
April 28th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: advertising
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“kids who spend more time watching television also eat more of the calorie-dense, low-nutrient foods advertised on television. “
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Artists from the six FIFA Confederations have contributed their works to the Edition. An open as well as a signed, numbered edition is available.
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“From 1934 towards the end of the sixties, the French Ministry for Tourism employed full-time PR photographers to snap “celebrities” travelling by Air France.”
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“The photographs in The Course Of History are landscapes of the worst killing fields of Europe, of battles that were turning points in our history, defining our future.”
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“Volgens de bond moeten consumenten eerst bij zichzelf te rade gaan wat ze nu hebben, of ze daar tevreden over zijn en dan pas bedenken wat ze eigenlijk nodig denken te hebben.”
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Atelier van Lieshout is kampioen
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“”But under the water where nobody can see it, it’s no longer a German river, at least not in the biological sense. It’s an international river.”"
Tags: adidas,advertising,art,children,cross dressing,europe,gender,health,iptv,kunstbeeld,photography,tibet,tv,video,war,world cup
April 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
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DIY Lauf der Dingen
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“Created by Charlie White, Pink is sublime and captures all the textures that fit the color.”
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“We wilden op internet dezelfde kwaliteit bieden als in de gedrukte gids”
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“The High Court in Manchester has ruled that an email cannot be recognised as a legal written offer if it does not contain a signature or name within the body of the mail. “
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“Japanese air raid posters “
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“Isolated by perpetual fog and the labyrinthine islands of Lake Saimaa, Valhamönde is a small monastic community that is interdenominational and ecumenist.”
Tags: adidas,advertising,art,email,japan,photography,propaganda,tv,uk,video,vpro,war,ww2
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Day one of Game, Set and Match II “
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“adicolor Podcast: White (aka adiporn)”
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Knitt a sweater for a tree. (With the pattern)
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“Analysis of all 3.5GB of the .COM TLD zone file”
Tags: .com,adidas,advertising,art,domains,gaming,knitting,pornography,tld,war,white
March 29th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Rachel Papo’s photoblog on female Israeli soldiers.”
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“Someone’s been painting directional signs on the ground outside subway stop in NYC”
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“We verzoeken u geduld te hebben en hopen u binnenkort toch te kunnen verwelkomen op de website van de Koninklijke Marine.”
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“BBC Worldwide hopes to launch bbc.com in spring 2007 to capitalise on the popularity of BBC content abroad.”
Tags: advertising,bbc,browser,israel,navigation,new york city,os x,photography,safari,signs,subway,tv,web
March 28th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: advertising,al qaeda,terrorism