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By Staff Writer
23 August 2013

As a museum of vintage commercial art, Plan 59 is chock full of the kind of kitschy campaigns Don Draper and Peggy Olson would have worked on in the '50s and '60s.

After flicking through Plan 59, we've realised a few things: there aren't enough ads with sherbet-pink bathrooms in them these days. Skype would be way cooler if it looked like they thought it would in 1960. And scone-related art needs more astronauts, stat. As a museum of vintage commercial art, Plan 59 is chock full of the kind of kitschy campaigns Don Draper and Peggy Olson would have worked on in the '50s and '60s. And, should you fancy decking out your abode with pictures of radically happy housewives, you can buy them as prints, too.

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