1969 19.5 x 25 #7UpUnCola plexiglass vending machine insert John Alcorn UnCanny
- - Note: This listing will only run for about 60 days each in the summer and the winter. Rare #7UpUnCola plexiglass vending machine insert.
Image is a derivative of "UnCanny In Cans" by John Alcorn in 1969. Images 1-4 are the front side of the panel being backlit. Images 5-6 show the front and back without any backlighting. Image 7 is a similar 7Up plexiglass insert in a vintage soda vending machine.
Image 8 is my 21' x 10' original. "UnCanny In Cans" paper billboard by John Alcorn in 1969.Upon which this plexiglass image is based. Image 9 is a double page spread featuring John Alcorn and his "UnCanny In Cans" image. It came from a 1971 or'72 American Contemporary Graphics booklet featuring many of "The UnCola" artists. The "UnCanny" billboard was issued in early 1969. So it likely lined the roadways on the way to the.
Woodstock Music Festival in August of that year. Image 10 is a double page spread from a Simpson Lee Paper quarterly "Dimension" booklet which was dedicated entirely to "The UnCola" ad campaign. About the Fall of 1973. Pages 3-4 features this image along with 2 others. There are several documented errors in the artist attributions in this booklet. Bill's wife, Pat Dypold was the most prolific of The UnCola artists and confirmed to me face-to-face that this was not done by another colleague (Ed George) as stated.Images 11-12 show the "UnCanny In Cans" billboards on display. Note: Image 11 is a photo creation. Image 13-20 are various billboard and poster offers that expired between late 1969 and 1974 that feature this image in several sizes.
My listings come from the largest, one-of-a-kind collection of 7Up UnCola posters and billboards in the world. To learn more about this award winning ad campaign, search for in-depth articles by Collectors Weekly (Collecting 7Ups Most Beautiful Hallucinatory Billboards), Dangerous Minds (The UnCola 7Up And The Most Psychedelic LSD Friendly Ad Campaign of All Time) or DJ Food's (7Up The UnCola Posters) blogs. On flickr dot com and you'll quickly find out more about these art competition winning advertising images issued in the late 60's & early 70's. These outdoor ads (billboards) were commissioned by the J.
Of Chicago (JWT) between 1969 and the mid-1970's. I consider them the "Midwest Mad Men". Most of the 54+ extremely colorful billboard & poster images were illustrated by invited outside freelance artists who were allowed to sign their names on the originals if desired - not all did. My collection includes at least one each of over half of the billboards and only my duplicate copies are being offered for sale.
A few images were produced in-house at JWT, and never with the artist's name on them. JWT wisely chose to invite only up and coming artists and not well known graphic stars so as not to let their notoriety overshadow the 7Up product itself. FYI - Peter Max did NONE of the 7Up posters, contrary to popular belief. This famous ad campaign increased sales by 30% in a short time and rescued Seven Up from near bankruptcy. Since then they've lost their fizz.
Many of the artists have gone on to great fame in the graphics community Milton Glaser (I [heart] NY logo) (Mad Men final Season 7 poster; co-founder of Push Pin Studios), Seymour Chwast (co-founder of Push Pin Studios) with Isadore Seltzer (Push Pin), John Alcorn (Push Pin), Barry Zaid (Push Pin), Kim Whitesides, Jacqui Morgan, Simms Taback (1st Happy Meal Box in Smithsonian & Caldecott Honor for children's books), Skip Williamson (underground comics), Robert Abel (1st Tron movie animations), Charlie White III (permanent collection at MOMA), John Craig, Ray Lyle, Heather Cooper, Nancy Martell, Roger Chouinard, Pat Dypold, Bob Taylor, Tom Kamifuji (original rainbow logo for Apple), Bill Bosworth, Ed George, Joanne _ and probably several others. My collection also includes a number of billboard & poster offers that helps me to pin down issue dates. 0:31 "Butterfly & Bottle". 0:35 "UnCanny In Cans".
0:36 "See The Light". 0:40 "# Un In The Sun". 0:41 "Wet Un Wild". Check back regularly to see my rotating stock of other poster offerings, including many more smaller 7Up UnCola posters. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. This is a vintage item and is not in perfect condition. Please view all of my high resolution photos and contact me if you would like to see any more. Local pick-up in Dallas, TX is OK (contact me before paying).= As a clarification, this listing is for one vintage plexiglass vending machine insert only. All other objects included in the listing photos are for reference only unless noted otherwise.