Vintage 90s Advert inspired by da Vinci

I found a printed ad paper from my days as a graphic artist on the Marketing Staff of a bearings manufacturer. These ads would go to engineers to encourage them to design systems using NTN bearings. I tried to show the features of one kind of bearing by making the tongue-in-cheek diagram look like a drawing from the sketchbook of non other than Leonardo da Vinci. I heard that it was well received.

full-page ad

Detail of drawing

 
An excellent Twitter thread on Leonardo's legendary skill as an artist:

Here’s Lisa del Giocondo (1479-1542) who has been immortalised by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). It’s a feature of his genius that his paintings have a life & mythology of their own. Let’s take a look at Leonardo’s art! pic.twitter.com/oHoXha7iMU

— Dr Robert Bohan Artist (@RobertBohan) August 2, 2022

Check out this video report on a once-in-a-lifetime Leonardo exhibit in the Louvre!