Advertising Dr. Seuss

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Matt Rainnie's recent comment about Dr. Seuss reminded me of a site I visited a few months ago. I hadn't realized that Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) had illustrated commercial advertising during his career. This gallery contains some neat examples from NBC to General Electric to Standard Oil. They seem particularly strange and interesting when one's experience with his art is soley from children's books. On a side note, my favourite read has always been The Butter Battle Book, a book clearly about the pointlessness of the Cold War nuclear arms race.

Taken from an advertisement for NBC by Dr. Seuss.

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Will -

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Nice gallery. Hope you didn't mind me blogmarking it (with credit, of course).

Mandy -

http://www.hellodita.com

One should also be a fan of <a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394823370/qid=1070367959/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-4096984-1363220?v=glance&n=507846>The Lorax </a><br><br>

<i>"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."</i>

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