Advertising Is Good For You

Coming soon, Arctic Home Coke cans

Coca-Cola has often used polar bears as an icon.

The soft drink maker is doing it again.

Coke is introducing a limited-edition 1.4 billion white cans featuring polar graphics.

This time the polar bear imaging is also being used as a reminder that the bears' natural habitat is shrinking and steps have to be taken to ensure the bears' survival. To that end, Coca-Cola has already donated $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Conservation efforts.

Read more about Coca-Cola's Arctic Home promotion at The Die Line.

Click here to see the pixel-edition Coca-Cola cans.

Download Anna Wintour for free

As part of the launch of Meets Obsession, the magazine hired Yiying Lu, creator of Twitter's fail whale, to create images for an article titled, 10 Most Intriguing in Fashion. The images include QR codes that once scanned with a mobile device, will reveal a web address where you can download Ms. Lu’s images for your iPhone, iPad or desktop.

Here are two of the images Ms. Lu created.

Click here to find out how to download these two images right now.

Magically delicious St.Patrick's Day T shirt

Mixing cereal, milk and whiskey is never a good idea.

Lucky Charms leprechaun T-shirt is $16.99 each at Crazy Dog T Shirts.

A close-up of the Lucky Charms leprechaun:

Kernal Sanders

A corn-y representation of the KFC icon.

Via Ffffound

Hey, that Belgian kid's been pissing on the camel all this time and I never noticed

How did I get to be this old without ever having noticed Manneken Pis on the Camel pack?

Found at Moi Illussions

Kool-Aid Man appears in Joseph Griffith's painting commemorating the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown

Prints are available for $20 at the artist's website.

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I got your raisins right here

Natalie Dee's vision of the Sun-maid Raisin girl. (Click image to enlarge.) See more of her wonderful work on her website.

Jack in the Box pays a visit to McDonald's

Can't decide if this is funny or disturbing.

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Source: My Confined Space

It's a good thing the recently deceased Oscar Mayer the Third didn't live to see this

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashed into someone's house in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Read all about it HERE.

 

The Wienermobile in happier times.

Oscar Mayer may be looking for a new Wienermobile driver. If you're interested, more information is available HERE.

To read more about Oscar G. Mayer, here is his obituary.

Addendum posted 5:00 pm

Found the after picture on Gawker:

The stories behind ten iconic logos

Neatorama has an interesting, quick-read post: the stories behind ten famous logos:

Morton salt's umbrella girl
Heinz' 57 varieties
Green Giant's jolly green giant
Laughing Cow's earring-wearing bovine
The Quaker Oats man
Gerber's baby
Aunt Jemima
Betty Crocker
Chef Boyardee
Sara Lee

These are the depictions of Betty Crocker over the years.

1936 Betty looks like she's standing trial for murder.

1972 Betty looks like Dracula in drag.

I'm guessing that when they created the current Betty they were trying to blur her ethnicity. I like the idea but the execution looks too much like a photograph and that ruins the romance of the brand.

1955 Betty is the only one who looks like she actually bakes cakes.

For some reason I can't explain, 1965 Betty is my favorite. How about you?

Advertising Icons: They certainly are working it

Debonair Magazine has posted the Top 10 Best Dressed Advertising Icons which includes the Jolly Green Giant as #8 and Mr. Peanut as #6.

McDonna: Over a Billion Serviced by Albert Crudo

CLICK HERE to see some of Albert Crudo's other works.

Ronald McDonald caught flashing his McNuggets