As part of my daily commute, I pass though several metro stations, which, like most of those in the rest of the world, are full of commercial advertisements. Like much of the culture in México, I find the style of advertising to be very foreign… different. I’m not sure whether it’s a good-different, or a bad-different, but it’s definitely different.
For example, there’s this one billboard in Tacubaya for a cold medication that is “inconveniently rapid.” I’m not sure what that really means… but my imagination is full of some very un-pretty images!
What would make it inconvenient?
And then there are these public service announcement posters….
-
- Tarzan may have had too many tacos…
-
- But, really?
-
- And… oh, dear!
If that red is meant to suggest that the bear is bleeding… well, that’s really inconvenient!
México, D.F.
Filed under: Mike's Notes on Mexico: Places and Peoples | Tagged: advertising, anorexia and bulimia, cholera, Desenfriol, Mexico City, mexico city metro, obesity, public health, public service announcements
