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Advertising Outdoors

Watch this Space!

David Bernstein author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Phaidon Press Ltd

Published:1st Mar '04

Should be back in stock very soon

Advertising Outdoors cover

Outdoor advertising is one of the oldest and purest forms of communication. Until now, however, it has remained largely undocumented. Advertising Outdoors looks at the creative ingenuity of art directors and copywriters who devise the artwork and ideas for outdoor advertising, to explore how their artistic input drives an industry that supplies large-scale frames, billboards, transit shelters, bus sides, taxis, airships and many other locations. David Bernstein also analyses the rise of commercial art and the development of advertising, with close reference to successful advertising campaigns.

This book will be of enormous interest to designers, advertising professionals and clients, though no less accessible to any reader who is intrigued by the complex mechanics of the apparently simple world of advertising.

'A masterpiece. It's an Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Posters But Were Too Busy Producing a Sub-Standard TV Commercial to Ask sort of book. Bernstein understands posters. He understands advertising. And he presents his case with consummate wit and precision.' (Campaign)
'A paperback version of the 1997 classic…with incisive text [and] plenty of images.' (Blueprint)
'[A] bright and provocative picture book of eye-catching billboards, posters and other out-of-home executions from the past and present.' (Advertising Age)

ISBN: 9780714843865

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1498g

240 pages