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Mad Men Is Auctioning a Chararacter’s Suicide Rope and These 9 Other Weird Props

Creativity

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was nothing if not detail-oriented—each scene had to have the right wardrobe, furniture, tchotchkes, and so forth, for the time period—so it makes sense that [...]


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How This Mad Men Co-Producer Made Don Draper’s Work Believable

Convergent TV

Josh Weltman, a co-producer of Mad Men, created most of the ad campaigns seen on the show. Beginning as an art director in the '80s, Weltman went on to be [...]

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How Mad Men, by Looking Back, Changed the Future of Advertising

Convergent TV

"On Stage 9, the wardrobes of the male cast members include white shirts, cuff links, tie clips and hats," Stuart Elliott wrote in his New York Times advertising column in [...]

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Growing Up the Son of a ‘Mad Man’ in Advertising’s Golden Era

Brand Marketing

There are many memories of the so-called "golden era" of advertising that are conjured up expertly by Matthew Weiner's Mad Men on

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X-Men Meet Mad Men in Quiznos’ Newest Pop Culture Sandwich

Creativity

Quiznos' Toasty.tv, a branded content hub that got an early boost from a popular Game of Thrones-House of Cards mashup, is once again pounding together two pop culture icons.

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Mad Men Drops in Season 7 Premiere

Convergent TV

AMC may have been hoping that the so-called “Netflix Effect” would boost the ratings for the Season 7 premiere of Mad Men, but in a highly competitive Sunday 10 p.m. [...]