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Gatorade Digitally Remastered ‘Be Like Mike’ After 23 Years, and Damn Does It Hold Up

Creativity

For those of us who've spent too many hours digging through YouTube trying to find good-looking versions of classic ads, this is quite a treat: As part of its 50th [...]


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Feel Like a Long, Strange Trip Through ’80s Design? This Is the Tumblr for You

Creativity

The pop-culture aesthetic of the 1980s can be a hard thing to appreciate. But Canadian graphic artist James White makes a pretty compelling effort with Uzicopter, his Tumblr of Reagan-era [...]

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the History of the Trapper Keeper

Creativity

Mental Floss put up an interesting article about the history of the Trapper Keeper, which is right up there with Lisa Frank stickers in terms of potent nostalgia catnip for [...]

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Healthy Kids Feast on Unhealthy Foods in Vintage Back-to-School Ads

Creativity

In the spirit of back to school, let's fatten up our kids and send them into anaphylactic shock! Seems that wasn't much of an issue in the '50s, when fall [...]

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1970s Commercial for Baby Laugh-a-Lot Will Make You Scream-a-Lot

Creativity

Today's toy ads aren't perfect—the one for Kackel Dackel is disturbing in its own way—but at least they don't give you nightmares. The one below, for Remco's 1971 toy Baby [...]

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How KitchenAid Gave Us the World’s Coolest Mixer

Brand Marketing

With The Great Gatsby in theaters and everyone suddenly falling in love with the glamor of the 1920s, now’s a fitting time to take a look at one of the [...]