“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 3/22/13:
Are you a fan of “Mad Men?” Do you enjoy how the show captures the look of the period? Read on!
“As the show prepared for its new season, which begins April 7, its creator, Matthew Weiner, inspired by a childhood memory of lush, painterly illustrations on T.W.A. flight menus, decided to turn back the promotional clock. He pored over commercial illustration books from the 1960s and ’70s and sent images to the show’s marketing team, which couldn’t quite recreate the look he was after. ’Finally,’ he said, ‘they just looked up the person who had done all these drawings that I really loved, and they said: “Hey, we’ve got the guy who did them. And he’s still working. His name is Brian Sanders.” ’
Click here to learn more about this 75-year-old veteran advertising illustrator who lives near Cambridge, England, but can create a flawless New York of the ’60s.
