Archive for August 27th, 2008

The first Vaillante ?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

This car is a 1956 Buick Centurion, a concept car as shown on the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance (Wired article).  If you look at its hood logo, and compare it to this, it’s clear that this is indeed the first Vaillante, three years before Jean Graton created his heroic race car driver and his family’s brand.

On a similar note, Jade Miniatures has produced an exquisite line of miniature cars inspired by the Michel Vaillant comic book series, while Seat presented an Ibiza Vaillante model in 2006.  If papa Vaillant had seen this model, he would have given Jean-Pierre a right slap around the head, methinks.

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Speech balloon ad, part umph

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Tarotos

These ads by Maruri Grey from Ecuador are for Teratos cough syrup.  The message is clear : Teratos banishes coughs from your voice (even when you’re yelling).  The execution is a bit eighties for my taste, but efficient nonetheless.

(from Ads of the World)

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Holiday reading

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Summer Reading by pve

I’m currently leafing through all the magazines that we seem to have amassed over the past few months, to see whether there’s anything worth keeping before they go in the bin, and I found this beautiful little illustration by Flemish artist Pieter Van Eenooghe.  It was published in Humo a while ago, to go with an article on what famous people read during their holidays.

A few years ago, this type of assignment would doubtlessly have been given to Ever Meulen, but for some reason, Van Eenooghe was given a break here.  I like the way he refers to Ever’s style of choice, but not resorts to emulating or copying.  It’s good stuff.

And since this picture involves a guy reading, this one goes to my mom.

(illustration © Pieter Van Eenooghe)

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