“Colorblind kids can see color. They just don’t see the same colors we see. Check you child’s eyesight for early detection.”
Quite a good campaign fro the Taiba Hospital, playing on the defining function of conventional color schemes. The result looks quite eerie, to be honest.
(from Ads of the World)
From Jeff Heerman’s collection of paper ephemera.
These images are from a Flemish Government awareness campaign that was set up to coincide with one election or other (we have so many of them, it’s hard to keep count). The general idea is clear : don’t just vote for white men - other people may be just as qualified for the job. But the use of superheros made it stand out. For a while.
More stamps. The Hulk, from Madagascar. ‘Nuff said…
A nice advert for a Hulk game on the Sony PS2.
(source : can’t remember. I think I got this via email)
This one was sent to me today, and I like it ! However, I haven’t got the faintest idea where it’s from. If you know, tell me !
!! Update !! Apparently, this is an artwork by the French artist Gilles Barbier, about whom Kim Levin writes in The Village Voice (july 28, 2003) :
“Or look left, at Gilles Barbier’s equally ambivalent and hilariously deadpan take on the American hero. In this French artist’s life-size tableau, Nursing Home, our beloved comic-book superheroes have been aged since the year of their tabloid births, as if fictional archetypes of invincibility were subject to mortality, too. The Incredible Hulk, flabby and in tatters, vegetates in a wheelchair. Catwoman dozes. Superman leans on a walker. Mr. Fantastic dangles his overstretched limbs. And Captain America lies comatose on a gurney, attended by a decrepit Wonder Woman. The TV plays, but the sound is pure golden oldies from the Platters. This piece isn’t subtle. But it’s deserved: An artist from “Old Europe” has succeeded in suggesting (tempus fugit, sic transit gloria mundi, gotcha!) that others may have a more sophisticated understanding of superpowerdom than we have ourselves.”
(Thanks, you-know-who)
