co-mod post---reminders...

[misstia]

two reminders....

1. HALLOWEENIE ADS!!! October 29-31!!! Please post halloween based ads on these days! and if you post more than one per day, please put them in one post with more a couple under a cut....

2. NOVEMBER CONTEST!!! Starting monday November 1: FOOD ADS WITH NO JELLO!! (meaning NO JELLO!!)...i'm sure there's monstrosities without a speck of jello in 'em in some vintage ads!! i have faith my fellow members will find some! :)

and lookie here...keristars made us an official banner to announce the contest! and we'll have banners for the winners this time too!! many many thanks to keristars for the banner!

Comments

[keristars.livejournal.com]

http://pics.livejournal.com/keristars/pic/000f29z8/

food ads (no jello allowed!) banner, if you want :)

[misstia]

ooooooo THANK YOU!!!!!! i had that on my list of things to do---contact you....but i have been ill, so THANK YOU for taking the initiative!!!!

that is awesome!!!!

[keristars.livejournal.com]

No prob! I was thinking about it tonight and figured it wouldn't hurt to do it (it didn't take much time at all, though I debated a bit on some of the wording).

[misstia]

and as you can see, i updated the post to include it! :D

[keristars.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad that you like it. The colorful paint ads from the 50s have amazing graphics to play with, don't they?

Though when I saw it from the main page (doing my daily check of ads/comments I may have missed), I realized that I totally forgot one of the main points of old ad design: using a standard typeface like Helvetica along side a scripty one, instead of it all being scripty. I might have to update this guy >.>

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

A clarification: Are these BAD food ads?? Or food ads in general???

[misstia]

i'll leave that up to viewer discretion!

[dasia-rockstar.livejournal.com]

I've been watching this community for a while and I still don't get why there's an imaginary line between jello and no-jello foods? Anyone care to enlighten a befuddled gal? :)

[misstia]

our first contest was unappealing food ads, about 90% of them had jello in 'em...jello mold upon appealing jello mold ads were posted....jello with COTTAGE CHEESE mixed into it! jello encasing chicken!

[dasia-rockstar.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see, thanks for answering!

Also, jello with chicken = ew. :P

[another-life81.livejournal.com]

Oh wow that banner looks great! Well done!

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

FYI... If it's the ad I'm thinking of, and im thinking of resubmitting, as it wasn't in any contest.. The chicken was NOT in Jello... lol

[misstia]

as long as there's no jello, resubmit away!! :D

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I take it "no jello" == "no gelatin products"? Meaning no one can squeeze in by saying, "But it's a Royal gelatin ad", or "But it's Knox unflavored gelatin"?

[misstia]

exactly, no gelatin products of ANY kind!