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From the Editor
April 4, 2008

New Brands, Old Familiar Ads

 

Some PhotoShop geeks at a small Long Island company called Worth1000 are running an online contest that invites entrants to create old-fashioned advertising for contemporary products. The examples submitted so far include ad with a certain fin de siecle air for Segway, Apple, the Nintendo Wii, Vitaminwater, Viagra, Jagermeister, Purell, TiVo—even the Girls Gone Wild series of videos.

Click here to view the ads.


Mike Hofman

Mike Hofman was previously editor of Inc.com and a deputy editor at Inc. magazine, which he joined in 1996. The site was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Digital Media in 2010, and was named the best business website by Folio Magazine. In 2006, Hofman was part of a team of writers nominated for a Webby Award for best business blog. He lives in New York City.