The site's always well worth a visit if you want to lose yourself in the obscure, the bizarre and the long forgotten as this nifty collection of Vespa print advertising from around t'world illustrates.
More Vespa ads from their collection here.
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Showing posts with label Classic. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Vespa Print Ads from Voices Of East Anglia
Voices Of East Anglia is not a new talent show hosted by Alan Partridge. It's actually a treasure trove of retro and vintage pop culture ephemera from, in their words, "the deepest recesses of the internet".
The site's always well worth a visit if you want to lose yourself in the obscure, the bizarre and the long forgotten as this nifty collection of Vespa print advertising from around t'world illustrates.
More Vespa ads from their collection here.
The site's always well worth a visit if you want to lose yourself in the obscure, the bizarre and the long forgotten as this nifty collection of Vespa print advertising from around t'world illustrates.
More Vespa ads from their collection here.
Thursday, 8 August 2013
Ally & Gargano Is Here
“It's important to separate agencies that create successful advertising from agencies that create successful agencies.”
– Blimey, has that ever been more true than today?
Big day here – at last Sell! Towers has a copy of the hefty tome that is Ally & Gargano. It represents a collection of some of the best work produced by any agency in the Twentieth Century.
Why do we seem so obsessed by Ally & Gargano? Well I suppose, along with Papert Koenig Lois, they represent the approach that we feel the most affinity with - these were street-fighting adfolk who used creativity to directly try to achieve things. They attacked problems head-on; they sold product, took-on competitors, challenged opinion.
They were unashamed of their obvious intent to accomplish commercial ends. We feel we have a lot more in common with that, than with the current fad for a touchy-feely, brand-y, sofly-softly, pretend we aren't-even-advertising approach. And I suppose seeing that others have worked this way, and that it can work, gives us a bit of hope that maybe we aren't the lunatics in the asylum.
I recommend you get hold of a copy. Or, if you're nice, you can come round here and read ours.
– Blimey, has that ever been more true than today?
Big day here – at last Sell! Towers has a copy of the hefty tome that is Ally & Gargano. It represents a collection of some of the best work produced by any agency in the Twentieth Century.
Why do we seem so obsessed by Ally & Gargano? Well I suppose, along with Papert Koenig Lois, they represent the approach that we feel the most affinity with - these were street-fighting adfolk who used creativity to directly try to achieve things. They attacked problems head-on; they sold product, took-on competitors, challenged opinion.
They were unashamed of their obvious intent to accomplish commercial ends. We feel we have a lot more in common with that, than with the current fad for a touchy-feely, brand-y, sofly-softly, pretend we aren't-even-advertising approach. And I suppose seeing that others have worked this way, and that it can work, gives us a bit of hope that maybe we aren't the lunatics in the asylum.
I recommend you get hold of a copy. Or, if you're nice, you can come round here and read ours.
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
What Distinguishes a Great Client?
Our good friend and blogging compadre George Ad Aged Tannenbaum sent us the below clipping after reading yesterday's post. It's a 1988 article from Adweek entitled In Advertising What Distinguishes a Great Client? Ten Principles For Building a Better Relationship With Your Agency. It still stands as good advice today. Thanks George! By the way, if you aren't reading George's superb blog already, you really should be.
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