There might still be whiff of 'boys toys' about cars but it's nothing when compared to the advertising that went on years ago
We’ve pulled together the very best Guinness Press Advertisements and Posters, old and new, from the D&AD Awards Archive.
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Vintage ad for B.C. Rich guitars 1989. Today’s post from yours truly is going to take you on a trip down memory lane to a time when magazines were the main communication device for rock and roll. Though some great rock oriented print magazines do still exist, for at least four decades from the 60s through the 90s magazines were what you spent your money on so you could be sure to get the recommended daily amount of rock and roll information, get fan club info, and pull out centerfolds of a young David Lee Roth to hang on your wall—right next to whatever else covered up the ugly wallpaper in the room you spent your teenage years in. If you’re a guitar loving gearhead and also a fan of girls, then you’re going to get an especially good kick out of the images in this post that feature the famous “Dean Girls” who helped sell guitars for Dean in a series of ads in the late 70s and 80s, as well as some racy images used by B.C. Rich. All of the images in the post have pretty consistent themes that include bikinis,...
The online ad for Australian company Premier Estates Wine showed a brunette woman with a strategically placed glass of red wine, using the tagline 'you can almost taste the bush'.