More Advertising and Design Archives
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As promised yesterday, here are a few more places I often visit for inspiration.
Simon’s Skip: Advert and Brochure Archive. Simon Moses graduated from the University of Brighton (UK)
with a degree in Design History. His personal website houses a small collection of British ads and
brochures for household appliances, mostly from the 1960s but extending into the 1970s.
http://www.74simon.co.uk/adverts.html
Design students might also explore the sections on vintage electrical appliances, Art Deco buildings, and this page housing a small collection of 1970s car brochures.
http://www.74simon.co.uk/carbrochures.html
Finally, Simon has posted an academic paper looking at retro industrial design trends as sanitized social nostalgia. Worth a read.
http://www.74simon.co.uk/nostalgiaessay.pdf
American Package Museum. This online museum shows about 140 examples of 20th century package design.
http://www.packagemuseum.com/
Dan Goodsell’s Tick Tock Toys Archive and Gallery. Food packaging, store displays, fast food merchandising, ad mascots, newspaper ads and early television commercials, gum card art, and irresistible snapshots from times gone by.
http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html
Advertising Character Collection of MLT Creative. This creative services agency in Atlanta, GA has a private collection of about 45 advertising mascots to view online, each with a brief history or commentary.
http://www.mltcreative.com/collection.html
TV Party! Saturday Morning Commercials. See what creative teams did with 60 seconds of broadcast time, an almost unimaginable luxury today.
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomsat.html
Also, on the same website, see how cigarettes were marketed on TV.
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomcig.html
Prelinger Archives of Moving Images. Look for the short films and collections of classic television commercials.
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