Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2022

1949 Frazer's Unusual Advertising Art

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America's only major new post- World War 2 automobile maker was Kaiser-Frazer Corporation.  There were two brands: Kaiser, a lower mid-r...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Rubens Does Some Advertising

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San Francisco's Legion of Honor has on display through 8 September 2019 an exhibit titled " Early Rubens ". There were many...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Otis (and Dorothy) Shepard: Billbord Masters

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Otis "Shep" Shepard (1894-1969) and his wife Dorothy Van Gorder Shepard (1906-2000) were important figures in American poster and ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Great Ideas in 1950s Style

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If you want a one-stop shop of 1950s style graphic design, I suggest the Container Corporation of America's advertising series called ...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Catalog Imitates Art

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The image above is smaller than I would like, but it's the best I could do short of scanning the front cover of a mid-June catalog from...
Monday, June 3, 2013

What is Art?

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I suppose some people who got better grades than me in university and graduate school will snicker and chalk it up to intellectual inferiori...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Fashion Photography: 1930s and Now

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Obviously, some people are perfectly happy with it. But I'm not fond of the trend to a coarser society (c'mon pendulum, please star...
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Lincoln Grilles : Dip Into the Parts Bin

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For a couple of decades, we in North America have become used to seeing Lincoln automobile grilles that looked like these shown below. Th...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Varieties of Railroad Travel Posters

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This book about North American railroad company travel posters mentioned that early posters tended to feature locomotives, but by some tim...
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