With a background in advertising I have enjoyed creating the kind of adverts I never could in the real world, and probably should still not create ;-)
Small print... Its worth pointing out that if you think I have stolen your artwork or ideas, or broken any laws... these adverts are not real, they never appeared in the media, and they are here as examples, not fact.
Thefootdown.com advert: I needed to get some stand out in a small sea of bright ads, and was listening to The Pistols on the shop stereo. Why invent something new when great uncle Malcy has already achieved perfection.
One of my Favourites... love the style and era, and the sense of drama and exploitation. Based on a poster for a cannabis exploitation movie from the 1940's.
The dodgy artworking suggests it was our first advert. The challenge her was to make our £25 ad fee stretch as far as a black and white advert in a photocopied magazine possibly could go... so roll out the shock tactics.
I must of been going through my "Flying Spaghetti Monster" inversely religious period (google it). Look at how global temperatures increase as the amount of gears increase. Correlation, not causation, but when has something like that stopped a great bad advert.
This is an adapted Frank Zappa quote... musicians became single speeders.
An advert I never had the balls to run. The thoughts behind this were of beauty and respect. It's not intended to be sexist. It's a comment on how as a cyclist you can get over focussed on the big hills and the big downhills etc... But just riding around and enjoying the scenery is also just great. It's all good, it's all gravy.
It has just dawned on me whilst writing this up... that there are no original ideas left... I think I was influenced by the "Ween" LP "God Ween Satan"... see below, and a damned fine LP, quite possible the best LP ever (seriously).
