American Spirit

While browsing through a recent issue of Glamour magazine, an ad for the American Spirit cigarettes immediately caught my eye. I don't know if it's because I do not smoke, but I have never seen this brand of ciagrettes before and have not seen another brand with packaging like this. I think it is a very "retro" look for something being sold in this time and era. I would say it's almost even an Art Deco look with the geometric shape and colors of the cirles and text. I really like it!

Harper's Bazaar: Now and Then

For this post, I combined a picture I took of a recent cover of Harpers Bazaar and combined it, using facebook, with a cover of Harper's Bazaar done in the 1930's by A.M. Cassandre. I am doing Cassandre for my second presentation so I have been researching a lot of his past art and have seen quite a few of his designs for the Harper Bazaar's covers and it just amazes me the difference between the cover design from then and now. The recent cover features an entertainment icon, singing sensation Beyonce Knowles with a relatively simple background with almost no color. The design by Cassandre is an abrstract illustration with a multitude of colors and is far from "simple."

Doodles

I absolutely love this restaurant sign for "Doodles." It is located on campus on the corner of Sixth and Daniel near the bar fire station. What really caught my eye were the tea cups used in the word "Doodles" in the places of the "Os." They also help show that it is a sign for an eating place, which is a clever advertising technique. I think that the font and the picture of the elephant go well together and create a nice unity in the picture.