Black History Month Advertising
Let’s close out the month with the advertiser featured at the beginning — Toyota. The automaker reruns last year’s concept, which was also reworked to salute Martin Luther King, Jr. in January (see Essay 313). But now the rear-view mirror presents Dr. Philip Emeagwali, a man cited with theorizing the Internet. Hey, didn’t Al Gore claim credit for the Internet? Also, shouldn’t the chalkboard equations appear backwards if reflected in a mirror? Moving forward has never been more contradictory.
No comments:
Post a Comment