Premium Network Launches Direct Mail Campaign Featuring The Art of Winston Smith

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 2, 2000 – Premium Network, the leading online promotions firm, today announced the launch of a major direct mail campaign to online advertisers featuring the art of controversial artist Winston Smith.

The campaign will consist of a series of four consecutive mailings to a broad base of online advertisers, each with a separate image of Winston Smith’s art. The four examples of Winston Smith’s art will be complemented by a poster of one of Winston’s seminal pieces that will be available to each of the targeted firms and used widely in other on-site promotional efforts.

Since the 1970’s, Winston Smith has built a reputation among the art community with his devilish wit. Most of Smith’s work is based on images from vintage magazines that he decomposes and recombines to convey compromising or politically revealing artistic statements that are unequivocally controversial. His work has been characterized as "truly subversive artwork" and he has been called "…the most vibrant collage maestro since Max Ernst." Popular underground artist Frank Kozik credited Winston with being "single-handedly responsible for an entire generation's graphic style."

According to Ken Margolis, President of Premium Network, "it is the impact Winston Smith has had, and continues to have, on design that lends importance to the selection of his work for this campaign. As a marketing consulting firm, particularly one that regularly works with a variety of artists, we place a great deal of value on the contributions of Winston Smith and I believe that this dissemination of his art will be appreciated by our audience. We are very pleased to be including something of tangible value to our customer base through this campaign."

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