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Frosty The Snowman is looking very tasty today 

27/11/2013

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1953 Bird's Custard Christmas Snowman
Thoughout the fifties and sixties Bird's custard was a year round family favourite dessert. In this lovely 1953 Christmas ad, the Bird's brand is beautifully represented by a snowman holding a flaming  Christmas  pudding  and a large jug of custard and a poster at his feet declares ... 
"Everybody knows Christmas pudding is always better with BIRDS Custard"
 see this yummy visual treat in more detail here
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It's in the paper! - Persil Washes Whiter

13/4/2012

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1954 Persil Washing Powder
Before and After is a very effective creative device successfully used  by advertisers over the years.

With this lovely 1950's  illustrated campaign for Persil Washing Powder they have cleverly used before and after thinking  and  taken it a step further to physically  demonstrate the brand quality through smart use of the magazines own white paper. 


You can find a more examples from this fine campaign in the RetroStore Home and Garden Index and I will be adding a few more variations to the collection over the next few months
1956 Persil Washing Powder
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Not vintage or retro yet but definitely classics

27/12/2011

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Dreamt up for their client Maximidia Seminars. This set of highly creative amusing ads by Sao Paulo ad agency 'Moma', is just too good to ignore. 
 I wonder how things will look when these social giants really are as old as the average vintage ad I like to display here. 
retro style facebook ad
retro style skype ad
retro style twitter ad
retro style youtube ad
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A Little bit of Christmas Schweppervescence

19/12/2011

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Whilst Coca Cola dominates the soft drinks  vintage ad scene it's easy to forget Schweppes the huge soft drinks brand that was never afraid to break the mold with their quirky amusing Schweppervesence ads. Here's a couple of 'Schwepping days to Christmas' ad for now, and you can be sure I will be adding a lot more Scheppervescence to this blog
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1952 Schweppes Christmas Ad
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1954 Schweppes Christmas Ad
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Leslie Ragan Illustrator and visionary artist

18/12/2011

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Ever since I first set eyes on the towering image below I have admired the ads produced for the Budd Company during the late 40's and early 50's. They mainly featured specially commissioned works from the extraordinary illustrator Leslie Ragan. Sadly under appreciated in his time. These days Ragan's work could easily be considered as visual interpretation of scenes from Ayn Rand's futurist novel 'Atlas Shrugged'. 

To see a lot more of Ragan's visions visit our Leslie Ragan gallery page. And to read a little more about this great commercial artist's work and influence I recommend these two excellent blogs Erratic Phenomena  and Illustration Art
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Vintage Guinness - A Sporting Year Campaign

18/12/2011

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Three lovely sports themed 1950's Guinness ads are scanned from my personal collection. Part of a series of cheery ads with outdoors sporting themes. Each of which featured a whimsical poem. Hopefully I will be able to add the other 9 in due course.
Click  each image to view larger.
1950 Guinness Sportfolio Number 4 April
1950 Guinness Sportfolio Number 4 April
1950 Guinness Sportfolio Number 10 October
1950 Guinness Sportfolio Number 10 October
1950 Guinness Sprtfolio Number 12 December
1950 Guinness Sprtfolio Number 12 December
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