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March 02, 2021
Monsanto Nights
In 1968 and 1969, Glaser drew Barbra Streisand, Sophia Loren, Pearl Bailey and Carol Channing for advertisements announcing Monsanto Nights, a series of popular TV specials sponsored by the sprawling chemical company Monsanto.
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October 05, 2020
It's a Bottle of Fun
Milton Glaser's cheerfully psychedelic ads for Fanta are the natural culmination of Push Pin's psychedelic style.
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June 09, 2015
Western Union’s ‘Computer Letter’
Ed McCabe’s characteristically direct copy for Western Union’s spammy-sounding “Computer Letter,” 1983. Click through for more and the full page.
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June 08, 2015
Henry Wolf for Karastan carpets
An excellently memorable and surreal campaign photographed by Henry Wolf for Karastan carpets.
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December 04, 2014
Milton Glaser for 7 Up
Milton Glaser’s finely detailed sketches for a 7 Up advertising campaign.
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April 25, 2014
Palladino Perfectos
These Perfectos cigarette ads, designed by Tony Palladino in 1965, caught my attention because they’re so markedly different in style from the typical tobacco ads of the 1960s.
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April 04, 2014
Henry Wolf for Olivetti
In the late-1960s Henry Wolf produced a number of advertisements for Olivetti, which touched on two of his favorite devices: the use of celebrity and the distortions of scale and context used to dreamlike effect.
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March 31, 2014
Group W
From the James McMullan Collection, a look at some of the best illustrators who got their start the 1950s and 60s.
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February 16, 2014
Outside the box
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. – Samuel Johnson
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January 13, 2014
George Tscherny for Herman Miller
George Tscherny developed his style working for Herman Miller in the mid-50s.
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December 11, 2013
Paper for packaging
Ten years before the rise of the supermarket generic brand, Champion Papers produced these colorful generic packaging designs for a series of print advertisements.
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January 29, 2013
Madison Avenue in the 1960s
Pictured: Sandy Kiersky, media director for Trahey/Wolf advertising and her fantastic eyeglasses. Click through for the full frame of this shot and pictures of their futuristic mid-century office at 477 Madison Avenue.
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January 15, 2013
Erasermate: Put it down and take it back
Wolf shot the photograph for this ca. 1980s Papermate ad, which was originally a full magazine spread. Presumably the art direction credit here includes the choice of this outrageous but strangely compelling combination of magenta boots, purple legwarmers, and high-cut acid-wash jeans. Against their layered, cool-tone palette, the yellow barrel of the pen stands out, its silver clip echoing the silver italic copy. The only snag here, in my opinion, is the affected rhythm of “Think, Re-think, State, Re-state,” which falls too comfortably into the exhausted “Big Idea” voice that was so prevalent in advertising a few decades before, and doesn’t really achieve any meaningful interaction with the image.
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March 13, 2012
Saturday’s Generation
Are you a member of Saturday’s Generation?
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July 08, 2010
McMullan for Caprolan
James McMullan designed and illustrated this piece for Caprolan nylon during his first year at Push Pin; it appeared in the September 7, 1966 issue of Women’s Wear Daily.
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February 20, 2009
The Maxell blow-away guy
I cannot count how many times I tore through this sparse bachelor pad on packages of XLII tapes. The translation to TV (here, courtesy of YouTube) isn’t quite the same, since however loud-sounding “Ride of the Valkyries” may be, it cannot be as powerful as the imagined decibels conveyed by the print ad, with tie and lampshade frozen permanently in full blow-back amid gusts of high-fidelity.
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By Collection
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SVA Historical Event Recordings
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Gail Anderson Collection
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SVA COVID Collection
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Ed Benguiat Collection
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SVA Publications and Institutional Records
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Ivan Chermayeff Collection
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Chermayeff & Geismar Collection
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Seymour Chwast Collection
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Stephen Doyle Collection
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Heinz Edelmann Collection
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Roger Ferriter Collection
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Louise Fili Collection
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Cris Gianakos Collection
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Milton Glaser Collection
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Keith Godard Collection
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Steven Heller Collection
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David Mazzucchelli Collection
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Ed McCabe Collection
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James McMullan Collection
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Tony Palladino Collection
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Stefan Sagmeister Collection
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Paul Sahre Collection
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Deborah Sussman Collection
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George Tscherny Collection
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Fred Troller Collection
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Henry Wolf Collection
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