David Ogilvy gets my vote as the greatest advertising mind of the 20th century.

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The outdoor advertising industry behaved abominably for most of the 20th century I mean, what kind of sick mind legislatively torpedoes Lady Bird Johnson?

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"As the 20th century moved on and photography became more widespread, images in advertising, movies and media endorsed different values, a sense of euphoria, and emphasized the need to project a positive personality, " he said.

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The city was a blighted, unhealthy, confining place in 20th-century America that was true enough and travel-related advertising urged Americans to take to the open-road cure, to reclaim their unfenced inheritance.

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Let me tell you something about the ARA. It was, first of all, an advertising construct, a fiction created by the oil and lodging industries in the early 20th century to coax Americans out on the road in their flivvers and Packards.

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The same cannot, however, be said of the illustrations, which lean heavily on pop culture and advertising imagery from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and have a late-20th-century art director's fingerprints all over them.

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