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Everything has a meaning. Even the slightest color or placement of a hand can have a meaning. For this vintage Budweiser ad (which I love!) it has several meanings. The hammer in this ad that the man is holding signifies the man's masculinity. Its made of two components that are considered to be strong materials, wood and metal. Hammers themselves are strong tools; you need a hammer to places nails to build a house and traditionally in older days (and still today as well) the man built the…

The lessons Sam Walton learned during those early, successful years of Wal-Mart allowed him to build the most successful retail chain in history. And just like the times that he

Here are a whole bunch of brilliant automotive ads over the last 50 or 60 years. It shows that the art of copywriting in advertising isn't what it used to be,

Don't let the floral name fool you: these guns are totally bad-ass. While not as cool as a real weapon, you can still do some serious damage. That's why you have to remember that even Daisy Pump Guns aren't toys and should probably not be advertised to children in the back of comic books. Wait.

Tobacco marketing has employed all sorts of effective (and often dubious) methods to get cigarettes into our mouths and tar into our lungs. One challenge they have faced it to get both men and women to inhale their carcinogenic fumes. For men, it’s fairly easy. We’ve covered this before: just feature a sexy woman, and … Continue reading "She Sells Smokes: 30 “Women-Only” Vintage Tobacco Ads"

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