Grand Rapids....come for the churches, stay for the Nascar and Deer Hunting.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Madison Avenue here I come!
This weeks post brought to you by Raquel Welsh steel radials...they may sag a little but they'll NEVER go flat.
In the process of working on ads and brochures, I frequently find myself coming up with directions that, while certainly making the point, aren't exactly politically correct.
Sometimes I just think of campaigns for products that I'm not even working on, and never will.
One time, while working at this antique store, we had this marble bust of Christ himself...J.C in da house peeps. I was on my way outside to have a smokey treat when someone asked me for help moving a desk. I had my smoke in my hand so I put it down...well actually, I was standing next to the bust of JC and lo and behold...it fit! Jesus was a marlboro man. I had to take a picture.
Then I had to design a pack of smokes.
I called them....Holy smokes.
Smokes for now....and the afterlife.
I had some really clever text on the back of the pack...stuff about the sermon on the mount and burning bushes. The cigarette warning on the side said something about may cause visions etc.
Anyway...since then I've had a few other ad campaigns that have really cracked me up, that probably offend other people.
My favorite one to date is an ad for frosted mini wheats.
Cut to a solitary confinement cell. We see a prisoner from behind shackled to a chair. He appears to be eating his breakfast. Pan around to front of prisoner. Its Jeffrey Dahmer! Dahmer says: "the little boy inside of me likes the frosted side, but the big burly man in me likes the crunchy wheat".
Is this thing on? I'll be here all week folks...try the veal.
I was reading a friends post about the pope today and I got to thinking about the whole birth control thing and it dawned on me....
the rhythm method would be a really cool name for a christian rock band don't ya think?
and maybe they could do a cover of that old 70's song "the morning after". hehehe
Now that enough time has passed, do ya think it would be o.k. to use Karen Carpenters image on a can of slimfast? I need to know.
I'm going to call a department store now and have Ann Orexia paged. I've never heard that one before.
and to think I'm wasting my time doing graphic design in the middle of a cornfield in the midwest.
Name: Jonathan Home: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States About Me: Just a guy who trying to eek out a living as a graphic designer in SW Michigan. See my complete profile
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