Vintage Ads

Ads from the past!.

Posters, Magazine Advertisements, Brochures, Booklets, Publishing, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Packaging, Logotypes, Trade-Marks, Letterheads, Exhibitions, Show-windows... Graphic design, illustrations and printed artwork in general

I wonder what it was like, back in the halcyon days of advertising, when advertising agencies created advertising for the tobacco industry?

Co-Le Sales Company asks: “Do you still beat your wife?” Their answer: “Maybe you never should have stopped.”

We've rounded up some of the silliest, weirdest, most absurd vintage period ads. They won't make you want to buy tampons, but they will give you a laugh.

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To push their products, these advertisements invoke some of the worst gender stereotypes, depicting women as terrible drivers, brainless beauties, and kitchen-dwellers. Women of the twentieth century, I sincerely hope you did not put up with this nonsense.

McCalls-Sep 1939

These 13 sexist ads from the 1950s until present day show how little has changed when it comes to the marketing of beer.

again with the pink! this is realllyyyyy fabulous pink.........