CIPC #207: Norwich union ad
Norwich! The great city of Norwich! Its cathedral, its mustard, its football team, its famous sons Lord Nelson and Alan Partridge,1 its union. Yes, its union. The Norwich Union, founded...
CIPC #201: De strateeg ad
Our subject for today is a podcast. Well, not quite. It’s some kind of ad that, at the time of writing, appears as the official logo for the Dutch podcast...
CIPC #195: Cores advertisement
Never before have I been so quick! Our subject for today — and today is November 3rd, 2020 — is an advertisement scanned from the November 1st edition of De...
CIPC #194: NHL commercial
The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find less than four thousand members...
CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad
No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess board. I’m going to talk...
CIPC #176: Shera ceiling tiles ad
I have bad news for the regular CIPC readers: today we’re going to tackle a philosophical question. Yes, one of those deep mysteries that bother all of us but that,...
CIPC#174: State Farm commerical
State Farm is one of those things, like red sups and school shootings, which most of the world is only familiar with through American media. In this case, the familiarity...
CIPC #170: Camel advertisement
If you were to ask me for my favourite sites, I would probably go on a tangent about how one should not assume that such orderings are linear and that...
CIPC #155: Hanes advertisement
If you thought we already plumbed the depths of human society last week, here’s a treat for you! Not only do we once again visit the crusty world of advertisement,...
CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial
After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our object of study today is...
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