Anthropomorphism
Happy Food
This one is best enjoyed at full-screen dimensions.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 28, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Cartoons
Follies of the Mad Men #190
Yeah, the first thing I think of when I get thirsty for booze is "Froggy Went a-Courtin'" and sexy swimsuit frogs.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 24, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Alcohol
Hamm’s Beer
Although Hamm's is still around, this goofy ad campaign is lamentably vanished. Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 22, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, 1950s, Alcohol
Spokesbeings Gone Wild
Once upon a time, the Schenley Whiskey Rooster was mild and refined.
Then he turned into some kind of manic, drunken, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride hype machine.
Can readers name any other product mascot that went through a similar transformation over the years?
I'll start with the White Rock Girl, who, by the time the ad below appeared, had gone from Walden-Pond-style meditation to picking up strange men in trains.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 09, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Public Indecency, 1940s
Frog Stores
This lurid, almost Lovecraftian corporate icon could be found in the year 1950 in Chuck Shepherd's own Florida stomping grounds. Proof that even 60-some years ago, the F-State was weird.
This link will take you close to the original ad, but you will have to scroll right for another page or so.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 29, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Retailing, Horror, 1950s
London 2012 Olympic Mascots: Threat or Menace?
Creepy or cute? Your opinion solicited.
Naturally, their creator is for them.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 27, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Sports, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
The Congrelephant Bus
[From Life magazine for October 18 1954]
A strange vehicle rolled down Denver's Ivanhoe Street one day last week and pulled to a stop in front of No. 626. It had once been a bus until Mrs. Ellen Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of "Congrelephant," and made it over. From the front hung an elephant's trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield.
[From Time magazine for October 18 1954]
Surely there is a place for a revived Congrelephant Bus in this election year.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 21, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Politics, 1950s, Bus
Vegeterrible
Vegeterrible from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
That's a mighty big fridge interior.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Horror, Vegetables, Cartoons
The Thrifty Pig
The Big Bad Wolf was a Nazi?!? Who knew?
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 02, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Government, Money, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, PSA’s, Cartoons, 1940s
Lonely Little Teacup
Lonely Little Teacup. from Linnea Sterte on Vimeo.
No sexual metaphors here, just move along now.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 07, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Sexuality, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
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