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MID-CENTURY ADS

Book number: 94259 Product format: Hardback Author: STEVEN HELLER & JIM HEIMANN

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Gleaned from thousands of images, this book offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the "Big Idea." From the height of American consumerism, bold and colourful campaigns paint a fascinating portrait of the 1950s and '60s, as concerns about the Cold War gave way to the carefree booze-and-cigarettes capitalism of the Mad Men era. Digitally remastered for optimum reproduction quality, the ads burst with crisp fonts and colours, as well as a sexy sense of possibility, beguiling their audience to buy everything from guns to Biflex bras and girdles, cars to toothpaste, air travel to home appliances, telephones in all colours and shapes, Knoll modern furniture, HiFs, cigarettes advertised by smoking poodles, Marlboro by babies Marilyn in Playboy, glamous fqshion, cosmetics like Cutex and Neet, Yellow Pages, Martini and alcohol, Hot Oatmeal is Cool, Boy mints Girl and the youth market, Mobil - we want you to live. At turns startling, amusing and inspiring, this panorama of mid-century marketing is at once an evocative period piece and a showcase of design innovation and advertising wit. 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 512 pages. Text in English, French and German. New from Taschen.

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