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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This pleasingly purple ad pretends to a childlike innocence that its counterparts have not mastered. There is no greater cliché than an angry father threatening to send his child to military school unless he cleans up his act. The ad’s ingenuity is in taking this threat literally. Clean toilets, it proclaims with teenage exuberance, and your potential to “party on” is endless. Sweep the floor, the poster cries out, and earn $9.85/hr to finance “excellent” times...
...ad no doubt taps into our collective nostalgia for past times, a Golden Age when threats were “bogus,” work was easy and life was one big party. For many, this time persists into the college years, sometimes lasting well into “adulthood.” This ad perceptively recognizes, however, that for we Harvard students this Golden Age is and always will be a tantalizing fiction, the teasing stuff of Hollywood movies and Dorm Crew dreams...
Yellow is clearly this season’s color of choice, but the normally cheery hue takes on gruesome overtones in this ill-conceived ad. The poster’s central image of a black Jewish star on a solid yellow background cannot help but evoke memories of the dreaded armbands worn by Jews in Nazi-era Europe. Such associations must surely have been unintended by the “Harvard Students for Israel,” but the comp ad’s blazing slogan gives the thoughtful viewer pause. Did the Zionist organization mean to make light...
...does an “underground” organization advertise itself to the mainstream? Is the mere act of putting up a poster a kind of selling out? This record hospital comp ad explores these paradoxes with verve, maintaining a careful balance between avant-garde aloofness and general-audience accessibility...
...begin, the ad arrests us with its powerful imagery, a dramatic over-exposed visage brooding with anger or desire. The picture’s deep eyes draw us in; sure enough, the entire face becomes a vehicle for expression, communicating not just the emotions that inform “noise,” “punk” and “hardcore,” but also the introductory meeting time for the campus radio station. Lest the poster prostitute itself as mere “infotainment,” however, it carefully undermines conventional forms, eschewing capital...