minimal Mad Men teaser billboard ads for Season Five

The above variation of the “falling man” makes good use of white space on the side of the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard instead of a traditional billboard shape.

Mad Men Season 5 premieres on March 25th, 2012 on AMC.

(photographs of campaign via Daily Billboard)

poster in “Great Ideas of Western Man” series

Alvin Lustig designed this ad for the Container Corporation of America. The quote is from John Ruskin “On the Benefits of Education.”

(via designopolis on etsy)

Dutch Bicycle History

Letterlust (on flickr) has an impressive image collection of posters, photographs, ephemera, and vintage advertisements relating to bicycles in The Netherlands, some dating back to the early 1900s.

(above Batavus Rijwielen ad c. 1950s)

vintage ad for Olivetti Lexikon Elettrica typewriter designed by Giovanni Pintori

(found in an old Graphis magazine c. 1955 via letterologist)

Life Savers print advertisements from 1928 through 1978

(via Buzzfeed, above c. 1950s via Jason Liebig)

High Art Peerless Bicycle, c. 1910 from a Sears catalog 

(via Depression Press)

archives of 138 years of Popular Science magazines, complete with vintage covers and advertisements

(above cover design by Edgar F. Wittmack c. 1933, via Google Books)

ornate letterpress and ink ad for The Ault and Wiborg Company c. 1898 
(via Captain Geoffrey Spaulding)

vintage ad or Dad’s Root Beer, 1956
(via roadsidepictures)

vintage Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum Halloween Ad
(via Todd Franklin)

fake tattoos on LEGO figures for Pilot pen ads by Grey in Spain
(via I Believe in Advertising)

vintage Olivetti Studio 44 ad designed by Giovanni Pintori
(via ninonbooks)

“Another Frigidaire Space Age Advance” ad from Life magazine c. 1966
(discovered via Wishbook)

“First with the last news” illustration by TB Antoni, featured in the Graphis Annual 60/61
(discovered via sandiv999)