Tag Archives: Advertising history

The lunatic who stole Trump’s stationery

Posted on January 25, 2017 by

I am probably the last person on the planet to begin to binge watch the TV series about the New York agency industry, Mad Men, which is altogether strange as I met many of those who were prototypes for the … Continue reading →

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Elegant shopping at Derry and Toms

Posted on August 4, 2016 by

Great graphic commercial art from the 1920s in this piece from Dave Walker about the department store in Kensington, now long gone… Victoria Station, at a quiet time of the day. Sometime…in the 1920s, I think. A display unit, and … Continue reading →

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(I do not) Want Ad

Posted on October 7, 2015 by

You did not want to mess with this lady, Mrs Nancy Turtle. She surely believed in the power of advertising, though her forgiveable spluttering volcano of anger could have been phrased better, this stream of consciousness rant paints a perfect picture of her lantern-jawed, one-eyed philanderer excuse for a husband Continue reading →

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Why advertising agencies were invented

Posted on April 20, 2015 by

They say ‘sell the benefits’, but Floriline’s graphic realism small ad that ran for more than 20 years points to just how malodorous things must have been in the drawing room of the 19th century. This is why David Ogilvy, … Continue reading →

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“Useful present for a soldier”

Posted on November 28, 2014 by

Napoleon called the British a nation of shopkeepers. As the first Christmas of the 1914-18 war neared, those shopkeepers of Britain were concerned the country might be distracted from being a nation of customers. To remedy it for that year … Continue reading →

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“In consequence of having had the screw put on…”

Posted on August 16, 2014 by

Every once in a while you bump into something you weren’t looking for, but the happenstance makes you smile. Although FH Lewisson of Auckland, New Zealand has been dead this many a long year, you have to have hoped that … Continue reading →

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The king is dead

Posted on June 18, 2014 by

A great old school Mad Men adman died last week.He was 93. Julian Koenig gave us the VW advertising of the sixties, the name Earth Day and a whole lot more.  Koenig was not without a degree of homespun, though … Continue reading →

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