Best Print Ad in the History of Print Advertising.
02/02/2010
And then this company started making condoms.
Remember how lulzy I said Constructivist art was?
Alright. Look at the poster. What do you think it is? New alien invasion movie? Cool retro tetris game with guns? Drug and weapons campaign? Something to do with terrorists?
Whatever it is, it’s fERking creepy.
Well what you see above is a print advertisement. The thing in the ad? It’s supposed to be a baby. The company? A rubber company. And the product?
Pacifiers. Or the little rubber nipple things you find on baby bottles.
And the slogan? It’s probably the best part.
So good, you’ll want to suck ‘em until old age.
So they’re trying to sell baby care products by using a threatening colour combination, with pictures of the product resembling grenade pins and daggers stuffed in the overly large mouth of a mutant alien baby, added with a slogan that sounds like a sexual pun.
BEST. AD. EVER.
That is one badass baby. If all USSR babies are this cool, then fuck the US, I’m on the Socialists’ side.
(Poster by A. Rodchenko)
– Annie (this is in no way meant to be politically correct)
Could have sworn it was an ad for a company that made hand grenades. One of the “pacifiers” (fourth from the right) looks like a pull-pin.
TOG
It was my thoughts exactly when I first saw this Ad. I was sure that it was a weapons factory or something.
A long time ago, a Russian friend explained this poster to me. Supposedly, it’s NOT a real pacifier add. If i remember right, its a political allegory. Each of the pacifiers represents one of the satellite regions of the old USSR. The baby represent Russia. The slogan says something to the effect of “With teats as good as this, i will desire to suck for a thousand years!” I can’t remember if it was official soviet propaganda, or if was dissident satire.
But this might not be acurate…
Can anyone confirm the real story behind it?
Thank you for this information! That’s very interesting. I wasn’t too sure about the meaning behind the poster, only being assigned to discuss the art style.
Rodchenko was a Constructivist artist, and my sources say this was from the 20′s.