The Draper Series. Mad Men Icon As Cuff Links, Tie Bars, Rings and Pendants.

Aaron Saucier’s collection of vintage-inspired jewelry features the iconic image of the falling ad exec from the opening credits of AMC's advertising drama Mad Men. He has turned the iconic toppling man into signet rings, necklaces, cufflinks and tie bars in sterling silver, brass and gold-plate.

Draper Cuff Links:
Sterling Silver Draper cuff links:

Brass and 18k gold-plated brass Draper cufflinks:

detail (cuff link):


Draper Pendants (necklaces):

Sterling silver Draper pendant detail:


Draper Tie Bars:

Sterling Silver Draper tie bar detail:

18k gold-plated brass Draper tie bar detail:


Draper Signet rings:


"In this latest collection, I am exploring the concepts of Pop Art, extracting a meme from its context. My goal was to challenge societal concepts of jewelry through an interpretation of icons of contemporary business and advertising." – Aaron Saucier, Owner/Designer


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above: The teaser poster for the newest season of AMC's Mad Men

Proof That The Love For Ryan Gosling Has Reached Epic Proportions.

The memes, the Hey Girl sites, the fan clubs. And now, Time Warner Cable has a dedicated genre channel to the Gos. That says it all.

Focus Grouping The Wizard of Oz - The Sketch From The Oscars.

The brilliant sketch of a 1939 focus group, made up of many of the cast of Best In Show; Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara and Jennifer Coolidge, discussing The Wizard of Oz and the 'Rainbow' song was one of the funniest moments of the telecast.

The Skinny On That 'Security Cam Catches Thief' Video For LG's Slimmest OLED TV.

Very rarely do I come across a television ad that I immediately wish to play a second time - either to simply enjoy it again or to see how it was done. Both are the case with LG's new guerilla-style security cam spot for their Slimmest OLED television directed by Hans Knaapen of Electric Zoo for Y&R Amsterdam. Rather than say another word, I'll simply let you experience it for yourself.



Credits:
Advertising Agency: Y&R, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Creative Directors: Lionell Schuring, Sheldon Bont

Art Directors: Theo Korf, Nick Plomp

Copywriter: Andrew Maaldrink

Director: Hans Knaapen

Production: Electric Zoo

Postproduction: Postoffice

On a side note, LG's newest and the world's largest OLED TV , shown below, is 55" and only 4mm deep and will be unveiled at this years Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

GRADMEN: Creative Circus Enlists Creative Directors To Woo MADMEN's Jon Hamm.

As the Atlanta-based Advertising school students tell the story it all happened one Sunday night. Inspiration struck a few booze-laden advertising students while watching the ad industry's favorite tv drama, Mad Men on AMC. They decided to start a side project to bring actor Jon Hamm to speak in character at their graduation as Don Draper.







The Challenge:

To get get actor Jon Hamm to speak in character as Don Draper at The Creative Circus graduation.





above: Creative Circus students Deanna Director, David Ma & Mike Quattrocchi lead the charge



The Pitch:

The students rallied various ad agency Creative Directors to speak, CD to CD, on their behalf.



The Video Plea:







The President of the One Club, Kevin Swanepoel, even sweetened the deal with the offer of a Gold Pencil for Best Fictional Creative Director Ever:





I hope it works (although they may need to woo the writers, too). Best of luck to them!



You can see stills of the Creative Directors who joined the movement on the GRADMEN Flickr page here.



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