LU Elevates Biscuits to Art

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Just when I thought that print ads were all expensive wastes of time with no aesthetic value, along came this ad for LU Buscuits. Here’s an ad that is actually art.

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The ad nods to Botticelli’s painting, The Birth of Venus (detail shown above, flipped). It transcends the mediocre and execrable ads that make up 99% of today’s print advertising.

Art, in an ad for cookies.


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