This is a book by a company that dislikes advertising as much as anyone. Nevertheless, it makes adverts. It has worked with global brands to produce fashion collections and promoted a town with a mass wedding. It creates advertising with more human, truthful communications. The company’s name is KesselsKramer.

This book describes how to make something you like out of something you don’t. As well as drawing on its own experiences, KesselsKramer listens and learns from those who doubt the advertising industry. Stefan Sagmeister explains how quitting work makes you better at working; Hans Aarsman discusses authenticity in image-making; and Alex Bogusky looks at ways to help capitalism grow up.

Advertising for People Who Don’t Like Advertising is partly a creative handbook and partly an attempt to make the world a very slightly better place. It’s intended for anyone who has ever hated a web banner or zapped an ad break.

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This book is a singing implication of the current status of the advancement business… However, one got done with a wonderful mix of jokes, obscenities, and humor.
In this book, the author has assembled his for the most part foolish and inappropriate blog passages, articles, and cave drawings. You might say it’s 200 pages of put-downs, jokes, disgraceful moves, and muddled words. In that capacity, redirection for the whole family! Hoffman is out to agitate the disruptors – – those grave, imperious spirits who have made advancing and publicizing such a genuine and affected endeavor. This may be the silliest, most indiscreet book about the promotion business you’ve examined. What’s more in some unwholesome way, the most authentic and generally intriguing.

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Far more than a means of moving merchandise, advertising has become increasingly recognized not only as an art form in itself, but also as a defining element of popular culture. Advertising Today provides a thematic overview of the evolution of advertising around the world over the past 30 years, charting influences from the political and social upheavals of the 1960s to the revolution of the internet in the 1990s.

Each chapter includes an intimate interview with a key figure in advertising – including Oliviero Toscani of the controversial Benetton campaigns, American-Express spokesperson Jerry Seinfeld, and John Hegarty of Bartle Boyle Hegarty, the creator of the world-famous Levis ads.

In analysing specific advertisements, the book simultaneously acts as a history of global pop culture and a record of the social, cultural and geo-political temperature changes that affect our image-saturated environment. Included are over 500 advertisements originally seen in a wide range of media: print, television, billboards, the internet and even very recent, so-called ‘guerrilla’ advertising, in which practically anything (pieces of fruit, sand dunes on a beach, pavements) can act as a surface for promoting a product.

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Table of Contents

1. Figure and Ground • 2. Two and Three Dimensions • 3. Foreground and Background • 4. Big and Small • 5. Compositions • 6. Setting Up a Scene • 7. Seeing in Context • 8. Outlines • 9. Words and Pictures 10. On the Spot • 11. From Eyes to Brain • 12. Index

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