About Anuns

Anuns (Yiddish for "ads") is a digital gallery dedicated to print advertising from the heimishe world — the newspaper spreads, magazine backs, holiday supplements and campaign one-offs that shape how our community sees and sells. Thousands of these ads are printed every year, admired for a week, and then thrown out with the paper. Anuns exists so that work does not disappear.

Every ad in the archive is scanned, credited to its company and creative agency, and tagged by year, Yom Tov season and category, so you can browse the way designers actually think: by season, by client, by studio, or simply by scrolling a wall of beautiful work. Each week a new batch of ads is featured in the showcase, where visitors vote for their favorites and the live results build into a running record of what the community loved. An agencies leaderboard tracks who is producing the most work, and every ad has its own page for discussion, quoting and crediting.

It is built for the people inside this industry — graphic designers, agency owners, marketers, business owners planning their next campaign — and for anyone who simply enjoys good design and wants to see how a distinctive advertising style has evolved over the decades. Students and new designers use it as a reference library; agencies use it as a portfolio of record.

Anuns is an independent project maintained by a small team of enthusiasts from within the heimishe design and print world, with ads contributed and corrected by the community itself. Credits and details are added by hand and improved over time, so if something is mislabeled or missing, we want to hear about it — every ad page carries a flag to report an issue or suggest an edit, and agencies are welcome to claim and correct their own listings.

Questions, submissions, or want your agency's work featured? Get in touch.