March 15, 2002
some things never change
Duke University's Digital Scriptorium provides a collection of advertisements from way back. This one is from the "Medicine and Madison Avenue" collection. Pretty interesting considering how the FDA is currently whining about not being able to keep up with all the drug ads on the tube. At any rate, there's tons of stuff here to keep one busy for hours. I like looking at the layout of the ads - gives me ideas for current ads and layouts I need to do.
Venus-Adonis Electric Normalizer, 1950.
Now:
Ab Energizer, 2002. The design is sleeker, and it uses electrical shocks instead of pistons, but it's basically exactly the same concept as the Venus-Adonis Electric Normalizer.
There is nothing new under the sun. The old ads look very familiar to me, chances are TT did the lettering for many of them, the script on the ad you posted looks like his.
Posted by: puppetmaster at March 15, 2002 05:02 PM