Advertising Is Good For You

Mad Men/Walking Dead mashup

Click here to watch the Mad Men/Walking Dead mashup.

Mad Men all over Newsweek

Inside the most recent edition of Newsweek magazine, are lots of Mad Men-themed ads.

From Estee Lauder:

From Ultimat Vodka:

From Mercedes-Benz:

From John Hancock:

From Spam:

By the way, season 5 of Mad Men premieres Sunday, March 25th.

Via New York Times

Mad Men accessories created by Aaron Saucier

Artist Aaron Saucier has created a line of jewelry and accessories based on the most recent Mad Men advertising.

It's available for purchase at Fab.com and at Saucier Jewelry.

Click here to see a collection of Mad Men-inspired want ads.

Don Draper paper doll

Cardboard cut-out dolls by illustrator Andres Martinez Ricci, available for purchase at Trimdoll.

Click here to see The Oatmeal's take on What Would Don Draper Do?

Ask Google to guess your age

 

Google pays attention to everything you do on the Internet. And then it makes assumptions about your age and interests.

Click here to learn what Google has inferred about you.

By the way, Google thinks I'm a woman, aged 25 - 34.

Uncanny.

Via Gawker

Mad Men poster by Lee Crutchley

Arts prints are available for purchase here.

Click here to see another interpretation of the classic Keep Calm poster.

Mad Men posters by Radio

Click here to see more work from Radio.

Click here to see Christina Henrick's ads for London Fog.

Banana Republic introduces a Mad Men collection

What would Don Draper do? by The Oatmeal

I recently posted an awesome comic from The Oatmeal. Luckily for you, I found another.

Find more genius from The Oatmeal here.

And to see some Mad Men-inpired ads, go here.

Advertising is doing its part to fuel the American economy

According to an article in yesterday's New York Times, last year:

• 630,783 people worked in advertising in the United States
• every dollar of ad spending generates just under $20 of economic output
• every million dollars of ad spending supports 69 American jobs

Click here to read the entire New York Times article.

Mad Men cake

Found at: Cake Hero

Celebrity Saturday: Mad Men's Christina Henrick's for London Fog

Magazine Cover: Christina Henricks on LA Times Magazine