Vintage Adverts

For all of you fans of advertising: there is a bunch of resources cataloguing old, and somewhat creepy adverts, especially the “Demonic Tots” gallery on Plan59 (museum of mid century illustration) is worthy of note. Found in Mom’s basement is a rolling blog, regularily updated with new (read old) adverts, and with a lot of archived material.

A lot of these ads are brought together here, some funny, some odd, some just plain wrong (like the Union Carbide India advert, with the catchy line “a hand in things to come”, later responsible for the worst industrial accident in history – Bhopal 1984).