Editing Carton (section)

==Artistic design and other imagery==
In art history, the [[cartoon#Fine art|carton]] (pronounced the French way) was a drawing on heavy pasteboard or paperboard, used as life-size design for the manufacture in an [[atelier]] of a valuable [[tapestry]], such as a [[gobelin]]. During the weaving it hung behind the tapestry in the making, a time-consuming process thus in a creative sense simplified to 'mechanical' painting-by-numbers.

As these were extremely valuable, often commanded by the very richest art-buyers, including princes who hung them in their palaces and even took them on their travels as prestigious displays of wealth, often with a visual message, especially the world-famous Flemish ateliers were deemed worthy to have cartons made by some of the greatest graphic artists of the time, including such celebrated painters as Rubens.

In the 1980s, milk cartons in the United States often [[Photo on a milk carton|printed photos of missing children]] with the hope that someone would recognize the photograph and provide information to police.

Many milk cartons also included advertisements and sponsors. These images and sponsors ranged from DVDs, Cereal, Cartoons, Frozen Dinners, and Albums.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Philip |date=2009-08-27 |title=Using Milk-Carton Ads to Build Strong Brands |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/business/media/27adco.html |access-date=2023-04-17 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>