The second season of Mad Men just started, and I’m glad have an outlet to write about it.<\/p>\n
From the awesome graphics of the opening credits through the scandalous plot lines, the show is nothing short of amazing. The scenes at Don Draper’s office are peppered with moments of marketing genius – he’s the kind of visionary that everyone in the marketing industry (myself included) wants to be. He’s able to boil down human desire into pearls of wisdom that express the unique power of marketing. The way his personality is as dark as the underside of his industry is a constant reminder of the baser element of the human psyche that marketing taps into. This a show about my profession, set in an era that I am focused on in my spare time. What more could someone ask for?<\/p>\n
But where’s the Dansk and other Danish tabletop accessories that were so popular in the early 60s? The Draper home is stuck solidly in the 50s, with traditional decor mixed with splashes of atomic age color. Wouldn’t you love to see a plot line with Betty Draper visiting the city and having a truckload of Danish Modern housewares delivered to their upstate home? Maybe she could buy it from the fictitious Menkin’s Deptartment Store – run by her husband’s Jewish crush – to add some drama to the plot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t