#advertising

Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago. ↗

— Kalle Lasn

#consumerism #advertising

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. ↗

— Fred Allen

#before #existed #had #men #space

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#advertising #capital #degree #dynamics #get

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. ↗

— Victor Papanek

#design #change

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it. ↗

— William Bernbach

#advertising #convey #create #only #product

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. ↗

— Noah Kerner

#design #marketing #product #design

Censorship is advertising paid by the government. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#censorship #government #paid

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#ought #shop #should #tell #telling

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does. ↗

— Steuart Henderson Britt

#business #commerce #humor #marketing #business