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But that all started to change when the ad guy Bill Bernbach had his epiphany after working with [influential graphic designer] Paul Rand. He realized that you needed two people to make great advertising, and created the world’s first so-called creative agency with the idea of a team of an art director always working with a writer. […] Before that, art directors were nothin’. They’d sit in a room with their thumbs up their asses waiting for the copy writer and the account guy to come down to their office and give them a piece of paper and say, “Make a layout.” Not design an ad. Make a layout. They didn’t get involved in the creative process. Advertising had always had great writers but what it lacked was visual impact. In honor of this evening’s event: ”’Mad Man’ George Lois Gives Some Damn Good Advice.”

But that all started to change when the ad guy Bill Bernbach had his epiphany after working with [influential graphic designer] Paul Rand. He realized that you needed two people to make great advertising, and created the world’s first so-called creative agency with the idea of a team of an art director always working with a writer. […] Before that, art directors were nothin’. They’d sit in a room with their thumbs up their asses waiting for the copy writer and the account guy to come down to their office and give them a piece of paper and say, “Make a layout.” Not design an ad. Make a layout. They didn’t get involved in the creative process. Advertising had always had great writers but what it lacked was visual impact.

In honor of this evening’s event: ”’Mad Man’ George Lois Gives Some Damn Good Advice.”

Tags Design Graphic Design Advertising History Mad Men Television George Lois Interviews

 Source standardculture.com

theatlantic:

David Lynch’s Freakish Advertisements: The Rats of New York City

Around the time he was filming Twin Peaks, David Lynch was dabbling in some seriously bugged-out ad campaigns, as well.

Exhibit A is 1991’s We Care About New York, a rodential PSA that addresses littering in New York City. The photography direction was handled by Frederick Elmes of Eraserhead, Blue Velvetand, er, Bride Wars fame. After watching a slo-mo closeup of a rat’s tail cycle like a plane’s propeller, and a group of bikers/swingers locked into paroxysms of creepy glee, I certainly want to litter less. Hell, I want do go outside less. (Don’t bother calling that number at the end. It’s now a fax machine listed to Broadway Hair or Island Video.)

Read more.

Tags Film Video Advertising David Lynch PSAs New York City Rats

Reblogged from The Atlantic  Source theatlanticcities.com

theoryintransit: The Insides of an Instrument This print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra uses macro photographs taken inside the cramped spaces of instruments making the inner workings of a violin, cello, flute, and pipe organ appear vast and spacious, almost as if you could walk around inside them. So wonderfully done. Art directed by photographer Bjoern Ewers, you can see more over on Behance. Brilliant.

theoryintransit:

The Insides of an Instrument

This print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra uses macro photographs taken inside the cramped spaces of instruments making the inner workings of a violin, cello, flute, and pipe organ appear vast and spacious, almost as if you could walk around inside them. So wonderfully done. Art directed by photographer Bjoern Ewers, you can see more over on Behance.

Brilliant.

Tags Design Graphic Design Photography Macro Music Instruments Berlin Philharmonic Advertising Print Bjoern Ewers

Reblogged from The Insides of Monsters  Source theoryintransit