The hippos eat marble after marble, but are never satisfied. That’s America.
— ’80s Don Draper (@80sDonDraper) May 1, 2013
Last week we saw how Don Draper would age in 40-plus years. Today Don Draper is fast forwarding from the 1960s to the 1980s through the 80s Don Draper Twitter account, where Don markets classic products of the decade.
The FW.com did a photoshop analysis on Mad Men characters Don Draper and Joan Holloway to see how the habits of smoking and drinking would age them. What do you think about how they look in 2013?
Both Don Draper and ad land cross paths with their not-so-distant pasts in the official poster for Mad Men Season 6.
According to The New York Times, Matthew Weiner drew inspiration from commercial illustration books from the ’60s and ’70s. Unable to find someone who could replicate the effect, he managed to find the guy who produced the real stuff: one Brian Sanders, still hard at work.
That’s some hardcore classic ad magic.
Via.
Is it April 7 yet?
Shake and cry guys, shake and cry.
“To be able to continue exploring the stories of these characters for a sixth season is an amazing opportunity,” creator Matt Weiner said in a statement. “We love mining this world and look forward to bringing the audience stories that we hope will continue to both surprise and entertain them.”
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The Emmy noms are here! Mad Men, which premiered five years ago today, leads the way with 17 nominations.
[Source: New York Times]
You already know we’re big fans of the show.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7f2d0qF7i1rtxen9o1_500.gif)
The Emmy noms are here! Mad Men, which premiered five years ago today, leads the way with 17 nominations.
[Source: New York Times]
You already know we’re big fans of the show.
If you, like us, are already suffering withdrawals since last night’s finale of Mad Men, here are a few little-known facts about the show to satisfy your craving (via BuzzFeed):
Mad Men was originally pitched to HBO.
Glen is played by show creator Matthew Weiner’s son.
Most of the show’s writers are women.
The $19K salary that lured Peggy from the company is equivalent to $131K today.
It costs about $2.84 million to produce each episode.
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Too many ad execs think like Don Draper about PR, writes Hill+Knowlton Strategies’ Patrick Slevin. But Don’s contempt for PR later came back to haunt him. Read on.
![The opening scene of the season 5 premiere of Mad Men, in which young men from the ad agency Young & Rubicam drop bags filled with water onto protesters picketing on the street below, was based on an actual event involving Y&R execs in May 1966. In fact, the scene was written almost verbatim from an article in The New York Times on May 28, 1966 [above]. In Mad Men, the wet protesters storm upstairs to the firm to demand who dropped the water bombs, and one says, “And they call us savages.” That line is a quote from protester Vivian Harris, who joined several women in confronting a Y&R secretary on the agency’s sixth-floor offices in 1966.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1noenerzb1qe6jr8o1_500.jpg)
The opening scene of the season 5 premiere of Mad Men, in which young men from the ad agency Young & Rubicam drop bags filled with water onto protesters picketing on the street below, was based on an actual event involving Y&R execs in May 1966. In fact, the scene was written almost verbatim from an article in The New York Times on May 28, 1966 [above]. In Mad Men, the wet protesters storm upstairs to the firm to demand who dropped the water bombs, and one says, “And they call us savages.” That line is a quote from protester Vivian Harris, who joined several women in confronting a Y&R secretary on the agency’s sixth-floor offices in 1966.
Lippe Taylor created a Mad Men-themed homepage in honor of the show’s season five premiere - or maybe we should say Mad Women.
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