Advertising
Osaka Steamship #5
2006.09.02, 20:31 | Comments (8)
It all comes together in this one, my favourite of the bunch. It’s a superb illustration and perfectly pitched advertising: beautifully executed and richly sentimental.
Osaka Steamship #4
2006.08.14, 20:41 | Comments (3)
My least favourite of the bunch, but why exactly?
Osaka Steamship #3 – let the vulture soar
2006.08.05, 08:51 | Comments (8)
Speaking of islands and journeys by sea, we reach the halfway point in the Osaka Steamship series with this postcard, certainly, to my eyes, the weirdest of the bunch.
Osaka Steamship #2
2006.07.27, 20:02 | Comments (5)
Is it rude to blog at dinner?
Osaka Mercantile Steamship postcards
2006.07.23, 15:52 | Comments (5)
Found in the second-hand bookstore today a set of postcards representing great advertising moments from the history of the 大阪商船会社 – or the Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co. Ltd., as one of the postcards has it. I’ll post some over the next few days.
Kikkoman advertising: fish and sazae
2005.03.08, 07:20 | Comments (2)
One of the nice things about Ōhashi’s illustrations – at least the ones in this style – is how well he can create both a stylized, simplified drawing of something that’s also perfectly realistic at the same time.
Slow advertising
2005.03.06, 21:46 | Comments (0)
Speaking of advertising, Robert Brady has a wonderful post on a superb local form of advertising I don’t think you’ll see anywhere else.
Kikkoman advertising: takenoko
2005.03.06, 12:46 | Comments (3)
A beautiful bamboo shoot in colour, and how it appeared in the magazine ad.
Kikkoman advertising, 1950 - 1969
2005.03.05, 13:31 | Comments (14)
Beautiful, witty and charming advertisements for Kikkoman soy sauce from Japan’s post-war reconstruction years by master illustrator Ōhashi Tadashi.
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