“A strange gulf exists today between the worlds of design and advertising. That makes it easy to forget that one of the greatest designers that ever lived was an advertising art director: Doyle Dane Bernbach’s Helmut Krone. Long before branding became a buzzword, Krone intuitively understood how graphic design could define an institution’s personality. ‘The page,’ he once said, ‘ought to be a package for the product. It should look like the product, smell like the product…Every company, every product, needs its own package.’ Without ever designing a logo — often without even using a logo — he created corporate images that endure to this day. How many companies can be said to ‘own’ a typeface the way that Volkswagen does Futura Bold? They have Helmut Krone to thank for that.”

A web site dedicated to advertising, which includes sections like AdMirror (campaigns that look strangely similar), a fake ad gallery and a blog.

“Blog on the future of advertising technology … Bridging the gap between geekdom and advertising since 2004.”

“Billboardom is my online collection of imaginative outdoor and in-store signage.”

“Advertisers wanting to reach an influential and loyal group of web publishers, writers, developers, editors, reporters and bloggers can now buy an ad that runs across three sites: A List Apart, Signal vs. Noise (this site), and Coudal. There are only five ad spots per month across the entire network so there’s very limited availability but very high visibility.”

A new weblog about the advertising industry from Weblogs, Inc.

“Nothing stops a newspaper reader in his tracks like a printing error–or what seems to be. That’s the reaction TBWA\Chiat\Day’s Craig Crawford and Rui Alves were counting on when they designed this clever ad for Infiniti. Flipping through the paper casually, you come upon what seems to be a weather page with all the data missing.”

“From innovation to scandal, if it happened in advertising, we’ve probably got it mentioned here. Take a trip down memory lane and see if you can remember some of these exciting events.”

“Studies of how people react to online advertisements have identified several design techniques that impact the user experience very negatively.”

“Banner ads turn ten years old. They’ve evolved, become flashy, carry sound, blink worse than the blink tag ever did and given birth to far more discreet things called TextAds. So what did the first banner look like?”

“I did a lot of work on integrating advertising into content sites back when I was at HotWired. We were inherently an editorial organization, and there was a pretty strict separation between content and ads. But we fought a constant battle with the sales department, especially in the later years when the bottom fell out of the banner market…”

“Super Bowl commercials — so what’s the big deal about them anyway? They’re just commercials. Then again, maybe they’re big, extravagant, glorious, fantastically creative spectacles of free enterprise celebrating art and commerce at their best. Well… at least a bunch of them are… So good or bad, nice or nasty, gorgeous or ugly, bland or spicy, we’ve gathered them here.”

“It’s not enough to use different browsers (or even BrowserCam) to check your site’s appearance. Back in May, I featured a company called Blackbaud, who makes software for non-profits. Their most important image — which talked about Blackbaud’s new 0% financing and ‘how easily you can afford the building blocks of success’ — wasn’t visible because they put it in a directory that was blocked by Norton Internet Security’s ad-blocking feature.”

“Our project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia Web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of over 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms from 1996 to present, we try to map conceptually the landscapes and narratives of Capital, Technology and Globalization as seen in corporate television ads.”

“Welcome to Adtunes.com! We hope this ad music weblog serves as a great source of information on songs and music used in television commercials, movie trailers, tv shows, and much more. If you’re looking for information on a song or ad, a great place to start is in our user forums.”