Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the 1980s in One Coked-Up HTML5 Website
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Bonkers candy. Betamax. McRib sandwiches. Madonna. Michael Jackson. Reaganomics. Mountains of cocaine. … Man, the '80s rocked. Or sucked, depending on your point of view. Thanks to Mullen's ExploreThe80s.com, folks [...]
How a Brick-Shaped Heineken Bottle Almost Changed the World 50 Years Ago
Creativity
You may have never heard of Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, but he should be a hero to drinkers and kids'-toy enthusiasts everywhere. Laughing Squid has the story of how Freddy—the third-generation [...]
What 200 ‘Playboy’ Covers Tell Us About Beauty in America
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At this point, Playboy is a relic—an outdated self-parody, much like its creator, Hugh Hefner. But historical artifacts are valuable because they give the present some context by illuminating the [...]
1995 Student PSA Predicted Internet’s Future Pretty Accurately
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Most old PSAs look fairly ridiculous nowadays, but not this gem of a spot from 1995, shot by the 5th-grade students at Ray Bjork Elementary School in Helena, Mont. These [...]
’80s Sitcom ‘Perfect Strangers’ Even Better as an Advergame
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Jason Oda of JODA, the man behind many of your favorite advergames and classic game parodies for brands, has conceived of the perfect way to advertise himself—by taking one of [...]
‘New Yorker’ Digs Up Its Own Ads From ‘Mad Men’ Era
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The mid-'60s was an anxious and uncertain period. Like Don Draper's tumbling silhouette, those years were suspended between Eisenhower's monochrome Americana and the kaleidoscopic revolution of the Woodstock generation. At [...]