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Sleepy's Mattress Redesign

Eric Hague

Yesterday's ten-hour drive from Philly to Boston afforded me ample time to check out the billboards that spangle I-95. Probably the most interesting thing I happened upon was the redesign of the sort-of-familiar Sleepy's Mattress mascot.

Before:


After:

My wife and I only saw one billboard (out of about a dozen) that still sported the old character. A simple case of the Brawnies, or am I reading too far into this?

Hitler just wasn't selling mattresses like he used to, I guess.

Terrific, it was done with a piece of Laughingbird Software.

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