Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-22


"Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by."

David Ogilvy (1911-1999) Confessions of an Advertising Man, chapter 5

Print advertisement for Listerine, continuing a long tradition of deceptive claims (1958)

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-18


"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

George Orwell (1903-1950) Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Chapter 3

Scene from They Live (1988). Scene shows a black and white cityscape where all of the signs and billboards have single words: SLEEP, CONSUME, BUY, OBEY, etc.
Scene from They Live (1988)