Opinion of this advert

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Better than these ads:

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, yes. Its better in multiple ways as well. Hey, for certain people the Guinness jingle is even true!

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Having had problems with alcohol in my life, I don't like it in a literal sense, because alcohol is not always good for you.  Most of the time, actually, not so.  However, I see what they are getting at (don't worry, get messed up, have fun) and I wholeheartedly approve. 

[traininthedistance]

Vintage Guinness ads are fantastic.

Having had problems with alcohol in my life, I don't like it in a literal sense, because alcohol is not always good for you.  Most of the time, actually, not so.  However, I see what they are getting at (don't worry, get messed up, have fun) and I wholeheartedly approve. 

Back in the day, of course, beer was the healthful temperance drink for clean living, at least in comparison to that demon gin.



Which makes sense: it was low-alcohol, high-calorie (and hydration), a legitimately important source of nutrition for many rather than just an ethanol delivery source.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Vintage Guinness ads are fantastic.

Aren't they just? Though the best part is that most of those taglines were the work of Dorothy L. Sayers!

[memphis]

Advertising can be problematic? Really?

[stepney]

Advertising can be problematic? Really?

Pah, that's no worse than Robertson's Jam. But how's about this:

[DemPGH]

It's good, I don't know about good for you.

Anyway, whatever you do, do not get a Revigator! There are some wonderful advertisements for quack medicine, particularly from the early 20th century. Comet pills? Someone can look that up.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Vintage Guinness ads are fantastic.

Having had problems with alcohol in my life, I don't like it in a literal sense, because alcohol is not always good for you.  Most of the time, actually, not so.  However, I see what they are getting at (don't worry, get messed up, have fun) and I wholeheartedly approve. 

Back in the day, of course, beer was the healthful temperance drink for clean living, at least in comparison to that demon gin.



Which makes sense: it was low-alcohol, high-calorie (and hydration), a legitimately important source of nutrition for many rather than just an ethanol delivery source.

Very good point.  The vast majority of "incidents" I had with alcohol (drinking too much, being too belligerent, feeling like absolute death after, etc.) during my college and frat days were all due to consuming hard liquors.  The only trouble beer ever got me into is lowering my inhibitions to the point where I was down to take shots.  

And yes, the illustrations themselves are wonderful.  I had a beer glass for a while that had the toucan balancing a Guinness on his beak.  Don't know what happened to that thing : (

[Simfan34]

Better than these ads:

Sans serifs in 1912? I don't buy it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Sans serifs in 1912? I don't buy it.

Then you don't know your typeface history.  Granted, in that era, sans-serif was used pretty much exclusively for just titles and emphasis, but that's exactly how it is used in those ads.

[Simfan34]

Sans serifs in 1912? I don't buy it.

Then you don't know your typeface history.  Granted, in that era, sans-serif was used pretty much exclusively for just titles and emphasis, but that's exactly how it is used in those ads.

The point was not as much that I was under the impression that sans-serifs didn't exist back (the Guinness ad obviously disproving that) but that the typeface looked too... modern for the period, or at least my impression of it. It looks like Helvetica, at first glance.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Sans serifs in 1912? I don't buy it.

Then you don't know your typeface history.  Granted, in that era, sans-serif was used pretty much exclusively for just titles and emphasis, but that's exactly how it is used in those ads.

The point was not as much that I was under the impression that sans-serifs didn't exist back (the Guinness ad obviously disproving that) but that the typeface looked too... modern for the period, or at least my impression of it. It looks like Helvetica, at first glance.

It's probably Akzidenz-Grotesk which was a major influence upon Helvetica.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

As big a joke as the loons who say that marijuana is good for you.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

As big a joke as the loons who say that marijuana is good for you.

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