[Field and Stream, May 1977. Click for a larger view.]
This advertisement makes me think of a novel I read this summer. Moby -something.
The thought of eating fish while fishing seems a little odd to me. But the thought of carrying sardines around in shirt pockets is a thought I am willing to entertain.
Time for lunch.
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Saturday, September 5, 2015
Big fish, little fish
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As long as you do the necessary laundry!
They’ll be in cans! But if there's any leakage, I’ll just throw away the shirt in question, because it will no longer bring me joy.
Name the font!
I give up!
It's Korinna -- very popular when I first started doing typesetting in the early 1980s. I love the design of this ad. What a period piece.
I just looked it up: it’s everywhere! I must have seen it hundreds of times on Frasier .
The art is very much of a period too, isn’t it? The wavery line, the meek little guy.
Yes, the illustration style, the fact that it's a "long copy" ad in the first place, the white space...
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