Tag Archives: advertising

2019-06-17
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Big ASCII print in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by James Athurman.

2018-03-27
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obscuritory:

Alive Software’s very pretty Summer 1996 catalog. From ALIVECAT.exe

2018-03-03
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Ads in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1873-1874 found by Paul Soulellis. ASCII advertising was quite popular at the time, and these are almost like concrete poetry advertising?

2018-02-07
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2016-05-28
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In the 1870′s, Brooklyn Furniture Company spent more on ads than any other furniture company. And they did plenty of text graphics!

More in this ASCII-detective story.

2016-05-27
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Calbee launched a new snack in April with ASCII art on the cover. Promoted with absurd videos like this, about sending W’s to the world and make them happy? More here.

h/t akaobi

2016-01-18
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Music ads for Grace Jones and The Pogues on Oracle teletext 1986/87, via Teletext Art.

2015-10-16
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ASCII-style typewriter art in a 1944 ad for correspondence schools. From here, via ascii-art

2015-09-10
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Big ASCII from an HTC ad shot in São Paulo, Brazil 2012. Video here.

2015-09-02
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PETA’s emoji campaign, 2014.

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