Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

by Thibodeau, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780789206404
• ISBN10: 0789206404
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Abbeville Pr

Summary

For more than a hundred years, the well-heeled cigarette industry has hired some of the world's cleverest designers to make smoking appeal to as many different types of men and women in as many different cultures as possible. The result is compelling graphic design that employs a startling range of images, from beautiful ladies to skeletons, golden bats to butterflies, boots and blue jeans to top hats. This compendium of more than three hundred of the best international examples is an addictively entertaining resource for designers, typographers, commercial artists, and branding professionals, as well as collectors.

Author Biography

Michael Thibodeau, who lives in New York, is a graphic designer and brand identity consultant as well as an avid accumulator of cigarette and packaging ephemera; his collection spans the globe and more than a century Writer Jana Martin lives in Brooklyn; her previous books include Great Inventions, Good Intentions: An Illustrated History of American Design Patents

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(3)
Introduction	9	(20)
Orientalism	29	(10)
The Lure of the Sea	39	(6)
Snob Appeal	45	(8)
Politics & Propaganda	53	(9)
Fast Forward	62	(11)
The Good Life	73	(12)
Straight from Eden	85	(16)
Cigarette Indians	101	(4)
Character Packs	105	(12)
Wish You Were Here	117	(12)
Superlatives	129	(6)
The Anti-Packs	135	(7)
A Collector's Guide	142	(1)
Index	143