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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
Since its auspicious launch in 1981, the ad campaign of Absolut vodka has
consistently produced innovative marketing concepts augmented by clever
graphic design and strong typography. By building its fundamental identity on
the foundation of its austere yet (at the time) distinctively squat rounded bottle
with a short neck (now other distilleries have followed suit), the original series
of advertisements focused, as they do today, on the bottle and the familiar logo
printed on the glass, accompanied by the pricelessly durable slogan “Absolut
Perfection.” The early ads also showed the bottle interpreted in iconic ways by
a slew of ...