The Art of Advertising

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That Vollmann piece in SPIN led me to back issues on Google Books. They've got loads of them digitised. It's a bit of a culture shock reading these old mags as even the ads feel more artistic and energetic than a lot of the magazines today.

 

[Murphy]

Lamb’s rum ads were how I discovered Caroline Munro pre-Bond appearance, gentlemen def prefer brunettes

Never drank Lamb’s after all their efforts, most drink brands large enough to advertise are usually a bit rank/compromised but such a campaign would be lambasted (pun disease) now, unless it was perfume in which case any pseudo erotic mumbo jumbo is fine








Miss Munro, I have tried very hard to avoid compromising your dignity

no goddess is to be exposed to ridicule, just saying the themes and motifs, while ageing well on the eye, look slightly ridiculous today