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The history of western advertising is a long one, starting as early as the 1630s, when Frenchman Theophraste Renaudot placed the first advertising notes in La Gazette de France, or in 1786, when William Tayler began to offer his services as "Agent to the Country's Printers, Booksellers, etc.," but the first time that the term "advertising agency" was used dates back to 1842, when Volney B.
Palmer created his agency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Widely considered to represent the birth of modern advertising, this date marks the beginning of a creative industry that has transformed many commercial works into cultural icons.
Divided into sections by decades, this book explores the legendary campaigns and brands of advertising's modern history, with specific anecdotes and comments on the importance of every campaign.
You will find the picture of the camel that originated the Camel pack, the first Coca Cola ad, and even how artworks by masters such as Picasso and Magritte have been used in advertising.
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The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada BC Chapter announced Stefan Sagmeister as a featured speaker at the 2008 Salazar Student Design Awards.
Stefan Sagmeister has been recognized across the world for his unique approach to design stemming from diverse sources of inspiration.
A native of Austria he moved to New York to continue his design studies at the Pratt Institute, and during his career his dictums have made their way on to billboards, light-boxes, projections and over-sized inflatable monkeys, to name a few.
In 1993, Sagmeister's formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. and has since designed branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner.
A long-standing artistic collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed, Sagmeister received a Grammy Award for art directing the Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads.
He is the author of the design monograph "Made You Look" which was published by Booth-Clibborn editions and Solo shows on Sagmeister Inc's work have been mounted in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague, Cologne, and Seoul.
In addition, he teaches in the graduate department of the School of Visual Art in New York and has been appointed as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York.
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All the way from Berlin to Manhattan, the renowned Pictoplasma project is bringing its annual conference on contemporary character design to the U.S. for the first time.
From September 5-6, Pictoplasma NYC will gather international artists under one roof to discourse freely about the world of character-driven art and design.
The event will offer two days of back-to-back lectures, screenings, exhibitions and parties.
Pictoplasma was conceived as a passion project nine years ago with the goal of championing the vibrant characters that are springing from the minds of today's pioneering artists, whether it be animation, illustration, graphic art or toys.
Since then, the project has evolved into a multi-tasking operation.
It has published a series of highly regarded compilations, including "The Character Encyclopaedia" and "Characters in Motion," that have gone on to become pictorial bibles of character design.
The project has also been hosting annual conferences, festivals and exhibitions in Berlin since 2004, joining artists around the world to talk about characters in commercial and gallery art.
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Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) is a brand new festival on graphic design.
For five weeks Breda (NL) will be the centre of attention for those who are interested in graphic design.
GDFB presents various forms of graphic design in the public space, but the festival also includes exhibitions, workshops and lectures.
Over 100 international designers particiapte in these projects.
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Colophon - International Magazine Symposium's second edition will take place in Luxembourg from March 13 -15th 2009.
The symposium will be hosted again by the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, but another additional 10 locations will join the event and offer exhbitions all over the city center.
The symposium and its exhbitions will be curated by Jeremy Leslie, Andrew Losowsky and Mike Koedinger.
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