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choco_froshI was procrastinating on registering for RomneyCare this morning, and came across this gem:
A lost stash of Guiness ad. drafts surfaces.
Apparently Gilroy - the man behind the Zoo ads. for Guiness, replicas of whose art live on in Irish pubs per omnia saecula saeculorum - was also an important portrait painter:
"...which may mean that somewhere in the bowels of the Kremlin, there’s a portrait of Winnie by the same guy who made a living drawing cartoons of flying toucans balancing pints of Guinness on their beaks."
(Also, did you know that there was a plan to export Guiness - complete with adaptations of the ads - to the Soviet Union in the early 50s? I certainly didn't.)
I was looking this up, of course, to fact check my occasionaldrunken rant anecdote about Dorothy L. Sayers. Turns out she DIDN'T come up with the idea for the campaign (Gilroy did, after a visit to the circus), but the iconic Toucan was all her.
I would like to note, finally, that it is a source of regret for me that the Octopus and Rhino versions of the ad. never made it into print.
A lost stash of Guiness ad. drafts surfaces.
Apparently Gilroy - the man behind the Zoo ads. for Guiness, replicas of whose art live on in Irish pubs per omnia saecula saeculorum - was also an important portrait painter:
"...which may mean that somewhere in the bowels of the Kremlin, there’s a portrait of Winnie by the same guy who made a living drawing cartoons of flying toucans balancing pints of Guinness on their beaks."
(Also, did you know that there was a plan to export Guiness - complete with adaptations of the ads - to the Soviet Union in the early 50s? I certainly didn't.)
I was looking this up, of course, to fact check my occasional
I would like to note, finally, that it is a source of regret for me that the Octopus and Rhino versions of the ad. never made it into print.
