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By cropping out part of the woman, the ad instantly grabs our attention and leaves us wanting more. It’s hard to imaging many products that have a legitimate reason for such an attention-grabbing image and layout.
VW (Volkswagen) advertising in the 1960s and 1970s probably gets credit for the most clever and memorable print ads and tv commercials of all time. But many Volvo’s ads of the 1960s, 70s print ads (below) and commercials (https://www.thebigad.com/2021/07/12/volvo-1960s-snow-chase-commercial/) are still, to this day, amazingly hardworking and brilliant…