A new restaurant, La Familia, just opened in our community. It’s not upscale, by any means, so although they’ve put some effort in making it look nice, they’ve not been able to go all-out with decor, design, promotion, and so on. I was especially struck by the menu, featuring a decorative font that was popular maybe 10 years ago....
Kermit told us that it wasn’t easy bein’ green, where green obviously stood in for many aspects of identity, including race/color. Green was the new black, at the time. So what to make of this ad for Mucinex? “Mucus is beautiful” echoes the famous Black Is Beautiful slogan, but while Kermit was our hero in his fight for equality,...
The New York Times writes about Andy Warhol’s grave located in quiet Bethel Park, PA. Imagining the design of memorial marker for any famous artist seems like a worthy conceptual activity (or at least a feature in MAD Magazine), but something about Warhol’s work itself seems to almost demand he be given an parodic (at worst) or referential (at...
AdAge named the VW “Think Small” advertising campaign (1959) as the #1 campaign of last century. It’s interesting to see how they’ve continued to reference the original work in their advertising for the new Beetle and even other lines. It’s almost revisionist, though, with today’s car image being prominent, and the messages directly opposite the original, which saluted economizing....
