The 1980s were a time of big hair and even bigger shoulder pads. It was also a golden era for military recruiting commercials, ads so excellent they could bring crocodile tears to the eyes of Bill ...

When Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese were coming out of school, hip-hop legend and BIG3 founder Ice Cube extended a $5 million ...

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.

Maybe in another 40 years we'll have amazing women's ski boots, people will stop saying they're going skiing instead of going to therapy, and there will be a little less misogyny in sports, but until ...

Skiing, too, was enjoying a moment in the sun. And to move all the products associated with the growing sport, outdoor companies needed ads. Those ads, which ranged from slick to hilariously ...

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.

Some of Ingraham’s most extravagant art appeared not in magazine ads but in PC Connection’s catalogs—an advertising medium I assumed the company would have considered instrumental from the beginning.

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars—not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.

2010: Then there's Axe. The ads are supposed to be a joke, but it's not clear who, exactly, is being laughed at. 2012: JC Penney featured a lesbian couple in its 2012 Mother's Day campaign.

Philip B. Dusenberry, one of advertising’s most-celebrated creative executives whose four-decade career included creating lavishly produced Pepsi commercials in the 1980s featuring Michael ...