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November 3, 2008

The Package of the Future (Circa 1918)

FuturepackdetailDetail from a four-page J. Walter Thompson Company “House Ad” from 1918. (See all 4 pages on the Duke Libraries Digital Collection site.)

Always interesting to see what they considered futuristic in the olden days. Running 4 pages long with lots of portfolio examples, this is ad appears to follow the old school ad rule: “the more you tell, the more you sell.” 

My favorite line: “To the person who has not yet used the product, the package is the product.

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

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  1. its not “C” its “S”
    C C C P – Soyuz Sovietskih Socialistichekih Respublik (United Soviet Socialist Republics)
    Americans are good at marketing

  2. Randy Ludacer says:

    Thanks for commenting.
    It seems that The Soviet Union had many names…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_names_of_the_Soviet_Union