When I was a kid I loved old advertising art, (okay, I still do) --especially colorfully cute ones like this full-pager from Top Value Stamps in 1956. It's fun to analyze each teeny, simplified scene featured below, noting the choices made by the illustrator of what to include, and not include, so the miniature size of everything "market, station, and store" still reads well, and with style, to the naked consumer eye. Yep, I like this ad so much that I also think we should blow up each one of these splashy green environments and really give them a good going over. Please do enjoy!
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Drug Stores "Gimme a pack of rubbers, and don't forget the stamps!"
I vaguely recall green stamps when I was young, my mother saved them from grocery shopping, I don't know if she ever cashed them in.
At one time Subway gave out stamps for every sandwich a customer bought, the stamps could be redeemed for a free six inch sandwich. They did away with stamps and moved onto reward cards when sneaky people started counterfeiting the stamps, there's always a jerk in the crowd who ruins it for everybody.
Oh man I love these drawings so much. I esp love how most of the people whose face is not in profile only have one eye dot
Love these. They have the breezy feel of finished art that took about a hundred and twenty seconds to produce (each). All immediate shapes and symbols; every line a gesture expressing the original thought. If I have a fave it'll be the last one here, or maybe the TVs. But I really love them all.
Only the jeweler's got two eyes. Everybody else is a cyclops.
When I see art reduced to this size, I wonder what the original art was. Was it on big boards? Or did they draw it at that size? It certainly lacks the detail -- which is a lot of its charm -- as if it had been drawn small.
Or just somebody skilled at drawing with that style on a larger format. Neat, regardless!
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