What's clever is that they've woven real advertising from the era into the plots.
I was in advertising during the era of two-martini lunches and entertained a great deal in some of the city's best and trendiest restaurants.
To do so, she is studying canonical Mexican literature as well as catalogs, photo albums, illustrated magazines and advertising from that era.
Even as bright-orange umbrellas shade a new pedestrian plaza where Myrtle Avenue, 71st Avenue and Stephen Street converge, a shop like Ridgewood Coins and Stamps remains straight out of another era, advertising an old-fashioned telephone exchange beginning with the letters EV.
In advertising, in the era of Mad Men, martini lunches and long-term relationships kept multi-million-dollar marketing relationships going easily.
In this world, page-based ads, interstitials, pop-ups; pop-under; pop-over; and most of the other web era advertising units make absolutely no sense.
As CEO of Allen & Gerritsen, Andrew Graff constantly challenges himself and the people of A&G to charge into advertising's new era of inventiveness through thoughtful brand strategy, unbridled creativity, high-impact media, and powerful new connection technologies.
The photos, all produced in the past year, are uncanny homages to the highly saturated, polished setups of Mad Men-era advertising, commercial archetypes that are as ingrained in the national unconscious as the lyrics to "American Pie".
Intentionally or not, Breitbart seems to be misunderstanding the nature of mainstream brands and, more to the point, misunderstanding the Internet-era advertising technology that's causing some brands the sort of headache Kellogg is feeling today.
