Saturday, March 8, 2014

12 Iconic Images Don Draper Could Be Looking At In The New "Mad Men" Poster

The new Mad Men poster, courtesy of Milton Glaser, is all kinds of late-’60s/early ’70s psychedelic. But there will be plenty more for Don Draper to focus on in Season 7.

Mad Men creator Matt Weiner has a history of weaving hidden messages into the AMC drama's key art, and with the seventh and final season premiere just about a month away, fans really only have a new poster — courtesy of graphic design legend Milton Glaser — to dissect.

“There is a dreamlike quality to it, and believe it or not, it is related to the show, and not because it's psychedelic," Weiner hinted in an interview with the New York Times . “It maintains the idea that this is somehow going on in Don Draper's mind, which is what the story is always about — and what the back of his head is about, on some level.”

There will be plenty of stimuli in 1969, when Season 7 is expected to pick up, to keep Don's mind busy. So here are some other iconic moments and images from that year that could be occupying the recently suspended ad man's idle mind.

Milton Glaser / AMC

Jan. 20: Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States of America.

Don definitely would need a cigarette while watching Nixon, the man he and Sterling Cooper bet on and worked with in the 1960 presidential election, get sworn in. That's a hard pill to swallow.

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March 10: Mario Puzo's crime novel The Godfather is released.

And Don walks around the office for the next year doing business with the catchphrase, "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse," and telling himself every morning, "Great men are not born great; they grow great."

G. P. Putnam's Sons / Via Jaimie Etkin/BuzzFeed