Vest-Pocket Adding Machine Print Ad

Oct 10, 2018

Print Ads

This old ad showcases a "cool technology of the time"....an adding machine for your vest-pocket! The copy interestingly talks in the first person tense, so it's the machine speaking to you in the ad. Clever and hilarious!

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The Man In The Hathaway Shirt Champagne Ad

This is one of the classic Ogilvy ads in the "Man In The Hathaway Shirt" series. In it's day, it was much like the...

Jul 11, 2017

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”Food is a gift we give ourselves 3 times a day.”

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Motivation

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Writing Effective Ad Headlines - The Zeigarnik Effect

This is an interesting little article about writing good headlines from a newspaper article. It has a couple of interesting anecdotes that are very...

Jul 22, 2019

Copywriting

Headlines

History of the Telephone Ad

This is a Western Electric ad from 1964 beautifully showing the history of the telephone (up till 1964). Fun fact, they had crude forms...