Jeff Campbell
01-29-2010, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.cultofmac.com/legendary-advertising-man-behind-apples-1984-commercial-dies/27672?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+cultofmac/bFow+(Cult+of+Mac)' target='_blank'>http://www.cultofmac.com/legendary-...w+(Cult+of+Mac)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Although Guy Day is about as far away from the hard boozing, womanizing, red-meat-eating Don Draper type as a 70s-style pompadour will get you, he was one of the country's quintessential ad men for decades. Everyone reading this blog knows his work: as the president of the acclaimed Chiat / Day advertising agency, Day was responsible for bringing together the team that created the hyper-Orwellian 1984 Super Bowl Macintosh ad."</em></p><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/OYecfV3ubP8&ap=&fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OYecfV3ubP8&ap=&fmt=18" /></object></p><p>Sadly, this past Saturday Mr. Day passed away in Los Angeles of natural causes. I remember watching this commercial during that Super Bowl, and it really piqued my interest in what the heck this Mac thing was going to be, which I'm sure was the intent of it all. Here is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxShzoUjiAQ" target="_blank">link</a> to a modified version of the "1984 Mac ad that has the heroine wearing an iPod.Â*</p>