More gorgeous graphic design from yesteryear, this time from Italy...
“Advertising in Italy” is an accurate look at Italian graphic design between each two years stated, including: posters, advertising, catalogs, packaging, trade-marks and more - via http://www.thisisdisplay.org/
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From Engine Oil to Hair Conditioner, Cars to Hoovers, from Lollies to Booze, setting it in Space sells it. Here's a collection of the coolest one's I've found...enjoy!
1989 Esso Robot Ad
1980's Atari 2600 "Everyones going Atari" Retro TV Advert
1980 Clairol Small Miracles Conditioner Commercial
Space:1999 - Ice Lolly advert
Schlitz Malt Liquor 1979 TV commercial
Late 1970's, KP Outer Spacers
I've been meaning to collate a post on Pirelli ads from the 50's & 60's for a while, I find this era the most graphically inspiring from the brand.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, as the Pirelli group became international, Pirelli chose great European designers, such as Max Huber, Pavel M. Engelmann, Bob Noorda, Albe Steiner e Raymond Savignac. While Italian designers included Bruno Munari, Armando Testa, Riccardo Manzi, Giulio Confalonieri and Pino Tovaglia."
Here's some favourites, with reference to the source below...
http://www.pirelli.com/web/group/brand/advertising/default.page
http://www.thisisdisplay.org/tag/Pirelli
http://www.thisisdisplay.org/features/Bob_Noorda_1927-2010/
http://80magazine.wordpress.com/category/pirelli/
"The 20th-century history of the Shiseido cosmetics company provides a vivid image of the efflorescence of modernity in Japan—reflecting the changing ideals of feminine beauty, the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture, cutting-edge trends in advertising and packaging, and the persistence of cosmopolitan ideals even in the midst of the rise of militarism in the 1930s. This project draws on Shiseido’s vast archives, focusing on the marketing of concepts of modern beauty from the 1920s through 1943, when wartime exigencies eventually curtailed the promotion of an international aesthetic of worldly chic."
There's lots more great content on the MIT Visualizing Cultures site which was launched in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html
Part of this brilliant Vintage Advertising Collection Flickr collection by Gatochy http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/collections/72157600080321303/
> 1960's - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/sets/72157594350839068 > 1970's - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/sets/72157594350861466/ > Vintage Advertising Pool - http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintage_advertising/pool/with/234280117/
