Vintage Ads with Weird Creative Ideas
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Some times creative minds go so far looking for ideas to attract customers and audiences. Some ideas are funny and other ideas are weird enough to surprise us. While I was watching some vintage ads ideas, some ideas really got my attention because it is really weird.
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The following collections include some weird creative ideas that designer used to attracted the customer. I will try to share with you some comments about each idea and why I see it weird. I hope if you can share with me your ideas and tell us if you think these banners are really weird in your opinion.
I wonder why someone is looking to be fat as a pig!! I think the idea of displaying a kid’s face with a body of a pig is very weird and strange.
I do not know if Gillette has chosen the right idea by showing the baby shaving his shin. Although the idea looks weird but it looks creative to show it is save even for baby use.
It may was the smallest camera at its time, but nowadays, it is the largest one 😉
Actually, the picture on the projector gives me an impression that the dog has attacked the girl, and I think it was not a good idea to choose this picture to display.
It is strange idea to deliver the company slogan “Counting our chickens with confidence”.
it looks like a telephone family standing together 😉
I wonder what makes the designer think in the telephone handset as Aladdin carpet 😉
I think Santa is too old to appear on a cigarettes ad poster;)
I do not believe that such an idea can be displayed as an advertisement, it is very offensive to display kids smoking 😉
Actually, I do not think it is a good idea to have an illustration of a pig cutting itself.
A carrot man is a really strange idea and I think it is not that logical to have a carrot moves with two legs and a head of a gentleman.
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the slogan “Counting our chickens with confidence” comes from the quote: ‘don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched’ i.e. don’t expect things you can’t forsee. Basically the phone company is so confident it thinks it can expect great growth, even though it is not a dead cert.
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Hi Rafiq,
Here’s my feedback on the ads (not all):
> I wonder why someone is looking to be fat as a pig!! I think the idea of displaying a kid’s face with a body of a pig is very weird and strange.
Pretty sure that one is a ‘spoof’ (fake) ad… yes it’s weird, because I can’t imagine why anyone would promote their product as tasteless and fat-inducing!
> Actually, the picture on the projector gives me an impression that the dog has attracted the girl, and I think it was not a good idea to choose this picture to display.
I think you mean ‘attacked’ the girl (right?)… They probably thought it was cute, because old home movies tend to include a lot of ‘accidents’. (Think of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”)
> It is strange idea to deliver the company slogan “Counting our chickens with confidence”.
“Counting our chickens” is a term used in North America that refers to ‘assessing’ something (tracking success or failure). So in the ad they are saying that they are confident that their product is good.
> I wonder what makes the designer think in the telephone handset as Aladdin carpet
That’s probably another North American ‘interpretation’, this time of the company “being on top”, or implying that “the sky’s the limit” (meaning ‘we can do anything’)
> I think Santa is too old to appear on a cigarettes ad poster;)
Just another example of an unhealthy industry trying to capitalize on people’s ‘happy emotions’ associated with Xmas/Santa. (Just like Coca-Cola still does.)
> I do not believe that such an idea can be displayed as an advertisement, it is very offensive to display kids smoking
That one is another ‘spoof’ (fake) ad, for sure… it would be illegal. (And you can tell it’s fake because of the sloppy crop lines around the kids.) Whoever did it was clearly criticizing the tobacco industry for targeting their cigarettes to kids.
> Actually, I do not think it is a good idea to have an illustration of a pig cutting itself.
Yes, that’s just gross. But as a vegetarian and animal-rights advocate, I wish we’d see more of these kinds of ads, because it might inspire people to cut down on their meat consumption! 🙂
> A carrot man is a really strange idea and I think it is not that logical to have a carrot moves with two legs and a head of a gentleman.
That one is implying that their seeds are ‘superior’ or ‘high class’ (the best you can buy).
Going back to the issue of spoof/fake ads, these days it’s called “culture jamming”, and designers do it to criticize the advertising industry for being deceitful and promoting wanton over-consumption, environmentally unsustainability, etc.. For some good examples of some good spoof ads, see Adbusters: https://www.adbusters.org/gallery/spoofads
cheers,
Lynette
Awesome, pigs cutting themselves, santa smoking… wow!
some ads are really the creative ads which can illustrate the theme clearly which are good ones for us to learn from
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…Nothing really terribly wrong with the vintage ads collection on display here (actually some of them are quite inventive!!)….they only just reflect the mentality and ethics of their time!!…(makes you realise how different things used to be 50-60 years ago)
What I, nevertheless, think IS WRONG here, is to judge them and deride them as they are being viewed through the eyes of a 21st century person with a a great dose of lack of understanding!!!..
Hey Rafiq Elmansy great Vintage Ads with Weird Creative Ideas, I really like all ads. Advertising means indirectly communication between viewers, readers or listeners to take some action for that product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer and also influence that customer to take some action like purchase that product or service.
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Hi,
Thanks alot for your comment and I really appreciate it. Actually, I agree with you but I just wanted to let the new designers compare with the old the recent design styles. This will help reaching what I call the universal concept. As there are some creative concepts that last forever and is not limited to a place or a culture. you can notice this in classic cartoons that we all love and our children as well even when it is produced in the 30th or may be earlier. You can notice that such universal concept is essentially based on simplicity, this is the factor the makes the design idea last forever and people respect it event after the design get old or even pass away.
Yes, ture. I learnt alot from these ads myself 😉
Hi Lynette,
First I would like to thank you for your comment that I am sure will add much value to the post. I really respect your point of view and agree with you in many issues. It is just one issue about spoof ads. Actually, I hate this type of advertising because it spoils the original artwork and confuses people to see the real history of the advertising except in the old advertising books. I tried hard to keep the ads original and choose only the original one. It was not that much easy to determine, which is the fake ads. I think it would be much hard for the non-designers to see this and will cause confusion to them.
I think artists who do spoof ads should mention this clearly before publish these content as they cause confusion to the viewers more than criticize an old ad.
Thanks alot
Rafiq
Thanks for sharing the original quote, it is help for non-English speakers to know it to be able to understand the ad.
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