The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end…
CIPC #137: Coca cola advertisement
The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to…
CIPC #128: Keds advertisement
Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…
CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial
Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what…
CIPC #113: 7up commercial
It is relatively common to see chess in commercials, but it’s very rare indeed to see correspondence chess make an appearance. And the last place…
CIPC #108: Toyota Tacoma commercial
Having a contest with the grim reaper with one’s life at stake is a very old trope. Older than chess, in fact. But in medieval…
CIPC #92: Barque advertisement
Pretty much every time I talk about chess in advertisement, I point out that chess is used to symbolise intelligence and sophistication, but it has…
CIPC #89: Vittel commercial
Can I go on a little rant for a moment? Well, this is my blog, so I most definitely can! So here I go: modern…
CIPC #77: Samsung advertisement
Samsung is known as one of the biggest and most famous electronics manufacturers in the world, but it is also an adjective used in music…
CIPC #73: Ronzoni commercial
If you have read some of my other blog posts, you will have noticed that I usually start with a short text providing context for…