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Amnesty International: Manhole sticker

Amnesty International: Manhole sticker
Your rating: None Average: 8.6 (45 votes)

Thousands are held prisoners for their beliefs in places worse than this. Write until you free them all.
Amnesty International

Advertising Agency: TBWA, Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Pawel Borowski
Art Directors: Sunil Nair, Malgorzata Koterba
Copywriters: Tomasz Gazda, Sunil Nair
Photographer: Szymon Swietochowski
Published: August 2007

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Fk Mikenj's picture 197 pencils

this is the coolest

Nthngmn's picture 632 pencils

very nice. A+

ivana fukalot (aka hand.some)'s picture

great, but fake :(

jeha's picture 110 pencils
adios's picture

Brilliant!

daniel_glezmilan's picture 240 pencils

Good, not brilliant.

teenie's picture 1910 pencils

OK, but the insight is so-so. It doesn't make me feel anything very strongly, which it should.

Lava's picture

Its a good thought....

itch's picture 810 pencils

not bad.. i kind of like it

* it's not how good you are. it's how good you want it to be *

Michal Zak's picture

Very nice idea!

btw: o calej akcji slyszalem od znajomych, ale dopiero teraz widze jak to sie wszystko skonczylo :)

chintz's picture

im lovin' it

Sushovan's picture

Not so clever! What if someone closes the manwhole and the guy is traped? Then he really is a prisonner!!!!

Sushovan - Advertisment is my second surname!

armando gutierrez's picture 2 pencils

Very original idea

lodinhkhoet's picture 2 pencils

An Dang
Accept with good idea but not brilliant. IF i look at it, i dont think im gonna write anything. Just see and "That Ad look like something"!

Hai An Dang Viet

stonia's picture

this ad have not finished the relation of difficulty and writing.
maybe we feel reget,but how we to do,why we should be write.writing will be give them what....

dew drops's picture 90 pencils

good ad

tantrik_indian's picture 847 pencils

I think why many of Amnesty's ads "fail" is because though they shock us - they do not provide us a tangible reason WHY we should protest. In real life I may have looked at this "ad" and thought to myself - good ad - and walked off. WHY should I protest? WHY should I write? People will respond more out of self-interest. This is what I feel.
~~be cool eh!~~

~~this paranoid survived!~~

onemilkid's picture 111 pencils

This will never look good in real life. When will "they" ever stop photoshopping stuff into Citylights and holes so they look in a certain way. I never works in real life. Never.

elmikel's picture 1153 pencils

fake or not, this strikes an emotional chord well. I like it very much.

anad's picture 20 pencils

great idea...love it

kolo's picture

It's not fake. I saw it at down town warsaw. I don't think it'll make me write a letter but I agree the idea is superb. I wish i did it.

ill-e-noise's picture

seriously mate, this is the poorest action since warsaw ghetto uprising.

Lecter Lecaros's picture 247 pencils

It just work from one angle, borring predictable and fake.

mataula's picture

haha next time print on jackets of canal workers when they go down in a manhole hahahaha

Guest's picture

SHIT! We just sold almost the same idé to a client. But with a homeless child in the manhole (a sticker on real manholes).

DAME! DAME! DAME!

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