Before Theodore Seuss Geisel found fame as a children's book author, the primary outlet for his creative efforts was magazines. His first steady job after he left Oxford was as a cartoonist for Judge, a New York City publication. In 1927 one of these cartoons opened the way to a more profitable career, as well as greater public exposure, as an advertising illustrator.
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"About-Face aims to combat negative and distorted images of women. And its Gallery of Offenders names names. But the site comes with a caution: 'Extreme sarcasm. Enter at your own risk.' " - usatoday

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another collection of absolut ads - this site in Czech and English - also reachable at the url http://absolut.pinknet.cz
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adclassix has a vast collection of retro print ads, from 1900 to the swinging 60s, from 70s bellbottoms to the naff 80s. Get your retro design kicks here!
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Adflip brags to be "the worlds largest collection of classic printed ads" and has some "Gallery of the absurd" style comments in the top ten section. Collection is huge - from the 40's onwards - neatly categorised and searchable. Good as well as "so bad they are funny" ads in here - as well as just bad.. Great!
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(UK site) Find all your favourite tv advert songs, and the tunes used in television commercials, with full details of singer, band, track, and album.
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Does exactly what it says on the tin - collects print and poster ads and shows them off.
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adsoftheworld aims to collect and celebrate great work worldwide - you can submit your own ads.
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Buy or sell old ads here, they have ads dating from the turn of the century, on the first page you are greeted by the Heinz Ketchup Ad where a woman exlaims "you mean a woman can open it?" about the new twist off cap. Oh dear! From the ad-pre-historic to clasics, visitors can search and download adverts from all eras in the vast database.
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The worlds first site about airline food has a great collection of airline print ads
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The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century.

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Signs are ads! Right? The American Sign Museum was founded to inform and educate the general public as well as business and special interest groups of the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape.
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Apple ad museum from the early years - there's even an ad for the Lisa in here!
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These examples from the forthcoming book, Best Rejected Advertising Volume Three, are print ads, TV and radio commercials that prompted consumer complaints. All campaigns are published alongside the rulings or adjudications from national advertising standard authorities or comparable self-regulating organizations. By presenting the material from European and Overseas countries we hope to offer a view of the process of self-regulation practiced by national Advertising Standard Authorities in each country, as well as of national standards of "taste & decency" in those countries.
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Used to be: logo.nino.ru - you need to impress creative director at agency X tomorrow. You think of a great campaign for their client X. You need the logo - and you need it now . Logo Type to the rescue - every possible logo there in vector format! add your favorite logo if it is not already there.
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Chilean advertising canaldelamancha.cl collects ads and campaigns in a little web-TV kind of way. Haz click sobre una oficina (en el edificio) para ver la biografia de cada miembro de Staff de la Mancha! Mirwayz (Director y animador de Publiciudad Show), Juancho 21 (Conductor del Noticiero de la Mancha), la.pancha (Animadora de La Publicidad y la Realidad), el Joaco (Reportero Estrella de Especiales)
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Another Badland type collection of twin ads, this one from Israel shows visuals repeated ad nauseum without commentary (but you can comment on each ad.)
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The UK television Music database. Name that tune!
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Website with 'Funny, Cool and Weird' TV commercials, mostly from the UK.
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Every Esquire cover, ever! Including of course the George Lois years when he shot Ali and drowned Warhol in tomato soup.

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Frank Jump has taken interesting photographs of the large painted ads that cover brick walls in New York City - many of them faded, half covered up or vandalised. Some beautiful old gems amoungst these images. Fading ad gallery it is.
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This site is dedicated to the logo and corporate identity... vote for the worlds best logo, browse thousands of logos. Upload your own and watch it compete.
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The french Badland http://www.joelapompe.net (now in English too) can also be found at twin-ads.com
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Bienvenue Sur JOELAPOMPE, le site qui collectionne les publicités jumelles. Copies honteuses? Coïncidences troublantes? Hasard malheureux? Faites vous votre propre idée en visitant le site...
anglais: A french Badland ad collection of twin ads, with credits and a large forum to rant in (in french of course).
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We are an online ad resouce published weekly.
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Old french ad posters - from perfumes to pantyhoese
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Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress
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More than 5000 logos available in EPS and Vector graphics. You need to impress creative director at agency X tomorrow. You think of a great campaign for their client X. You need the logo - and you need it now... Start looking here.
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explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising. approximately 600 health-related printads from 1910s through the 1950s.

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those annoying mustace ads at whymilk.com, theres a good question.. WHY milk? Why??
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Dutch advertising collection site - museum of old ads combined with new articles.
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Created in 1944, the Smokey Bear campaign is the longest running public service campaign in US History. This site has it all.
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The Largest collection of Polish Posters 1900-2004
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Paul Giambarba initiated Polaroid's corporate image development and product identity in 1958, here he tells the story of the branding of polaroid.
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over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.
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Established in the UK in 1974 they collect the best of UK advertising so it's preserved for posterity.

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crazy ad galleries, kids food packaging, cartoon charachters and animated 1950's ads in this retro collection.

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Great looking page, has a collection of cigarette ads so old that "9 out of 10 doctors" smoked them...

Don't miss the ad spoof banners
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From 1900 to 1969, men in shorts! A lovely ad collection, to flaunt vintage underwear models that this site actually sells as well. It's still a good collection of rockwell style strapping young lads in shorts.
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Vintage ads for sale! "Advertisements can add to the decor of your home. Our site is divided into various categories to help you find just the right ad. We hope that you will visit our site frequently to view our newly listed ads."
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Viral HQ is an archive of the coolest viral ad clips on the net. We also offer excellent seeding, tracking and reporting for your online advertising and marketing campaigns.
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the patient spectrum fans behind this site have blessed the world with a great collection of old spectrum ads. Hit the archives to download all ad scans in one fell swoop.
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