Archive for the ‘Advertising’ Category

Message on a Billboard

It seems that everyone and everything is making a come back nowadays. Take That started off the craze, but recently we’ve seen comebacks from the likes of Blur, Spandau Ballet, The Verve, Spice Girls, and even a one off gig from Led Zeppelin. Apparently 90s boyband 5ive also made a comeback, although you’d be excused [...]

How Things Have Changed

In an old antiques shop yesterday I happened to stumble across this old newspaper from 1948, and it’s fascinating to see just how different newspaper advertising was 60 years ago. The newspaper, which I ended up buying, was a copy of the Illustrated London News from April 10th 1948, and the front page contains no [...]

At Your Convenience

This advert for Channel 4’s On Demand service really impresses me. The way that they have turned all of their main programmes into supermarket products makes the advert humorous, and really easy for everybody to relate to. For example, Gok Wan is represented by bright red fizzy pop, Skins is a cheap and dirty Pot [...]