BUND: Bursting Earth

BUND: Bursting Earth
Average: 9 (54 votes)

The world can't take anymore CO2.

Members of the BUND put globe-ballons on exhaust-pipes of cars in Berlin. The exhaust gas inflates the ballons. And after the message becomes readable, there is a big bang.

Agency: Butter.Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Creative Director: Timm Holm, Michael Preuss
Art director: Björn von Buchholtz
Copywriter: Hermann Weiss
Photographer: Paul Seitz

74 comments

addyhoch10's picture
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addyhoch10

nice idea. but who's supposed to see / read it?

oligofree's picture
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oligofree

WE :))

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not freedom like a shopping card

bknowlden's picture
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bknowlden

Would it even last long enough for the "culprit" to runaway?
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addyhoch10's picture
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addyhoch10

i'm sure it would. i assume they put it on parked cars only

i know some guys who would definitely not lough about this anyway

drizae's picture
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drizae

Ummmm. It seems pointless unless your target market is literate ants.

Fail Harder.

MikeTV's picture
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MikeTV

Isn't there laws against placing things on peoples cars? but cool.

Boony wants a beer's picture
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Boony wants a beer

It might have a few issues in terms of practicality but a very cool idea.

adisrael's picture
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adisrael

not anderstand how someone can see that on the rode.

kc_brock's picture
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kc_brock

when people hear a "big bang" come from their car it will probably scare the crap out of them.
there might be some ticked off people.

that being said, it's still a very cool new media idea.

dauntless's picture
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dauntless

cool idea...aint gonna work since no one's going to have the chance to read it.
so since it fails to acheive it's objective... has to be a bad idea :)

Vibe's picture
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Vibe

Logically speaking, the preasure in the balloon gonna cause it to slip off before it got the chance to blow..For viewing, I think it might work if the balloon is big, atleast it gives more time for the balloon to expand and also create curiosity among other driver.. I wonder what if the car is turbo charge... lol

thinkFRESHdesign's picture
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thinkFRESHdesign

Agreed. This is a total gimmick. What client would pay money for this sort of campaign? Must have been a freebie - or an attempt to garner an award or two, haha.

original doodles + creative sweat = thinkingfresh.ca

Vibe's picture
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Vibe

Soon or later it will be known as "Car Fart"... kooolllll

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

it's sooner or later. again kool is a cigarette

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

Claus Thaler's picture
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Claus Thaler

Pardon me? This people are pretending to work for nature by spreading melted plastic balloons on the streets? And who will read this? Looks like a waste of time to me.

atulspande's picture
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atulspande

nice ad. u mad me remember the ad in which a poster of human face n the mouth portion is cutted out
n hange to the smoing pipe of a truck. It was about pollution awareness i think. good one.

tiny_wordz's picture
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tiny_wordz

what if itz just plain old air thatz comin out of the exhaust? not practical 2 me!

pindaro's picture
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pindaro

this could work if it was done for TV but a car exhaust is not a very noticeable place.... and the type is too small, you just have to be too close to read it.

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

Imagine a little old lady getting into her car after going to the grocery store to pick up baking supplies hearing a big bang from her car.

This would be good if the balloon didn't actually burst until it was huge and read by people. Maybe they could put a little hole in it somewhere to prevent it from bursting, just let it get bigger and bigger.

On second thought. Scrap this. It's bad for the environment to have the garbage from the plastic balloon on the roads.

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Jonny Lonestar

Really cool idea, aside from legability. Can the world take any more junk plastic/rubber?

the_ashlands's picture
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the_ashlands

tailpipes get awfully hot...even for parked cars. theyd probably have to skip all the cars that had just pulled and only balloon the cars that have been sittin for a while as to not melt the balloon...not a huge issue but another flaw in the design to add to the issues addressed above.

advertisingenius's picture
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advertisingenius

Looks like Butter.Berlin should be hiring soon.

Edwin

aj's picture
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aj

LONG LIVE SCAMS!

theassailante's picture
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theassailante

who the hell will bend down to read that shit?
dumb ad..

kbstefan's picture
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kbstefan

WOW!
TO: THE EARTH
FROM: HUMAN BEANS
think!

Boony wants a beer's picture
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Boony wants a beer

Human beans? They sound delicious.

adabortion's picture
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adabortion

What a crap gimmick!!!

B128's picture
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B128

Doesn't work for me. It's a tough angle and low for clear reading + with the parking situation now on busy street, I'd wonder where someone will be standing to be able to read this. I'd definitely not want to be standing behind a reversing vehicle.

bcrogan's picture
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bcrogan

this is sooo weird, i go to SVA in manhattan and i take a guerilla ad class there, and last semester we had to come up with ideas for the one show and our topic is global warming for the NRDC. This group of dutch exchange students came up with this EXACT SAME IDEA. It was even comped up and everythign. eveyone in the class including the teacher had loved this idea. It is s weird because we all thought that this was such a unique idea. how crazy is that.

Kanti's picture
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Kanti

Would make a nice TV spot.

salamandos's picture
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salamandos

yes, i thought so too - it's not really working as an ambient idea.

DanteFarla's picture
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DanteFarla

Interesting idea, but a total fake its imposible for read that globe!!!

Nicolaï Tuloh's picture
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Nicolaï Tuloh

please help us to link this page http://www.secondawareness.com/2006/the-world-cant-take-anymore-co2.html in order to contribute to the globalwarming awareness. thank you

bcrogan's picture
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bcrogan

YEAH NICE IDEA YOU STOLE FROM MY FRIENDS FROM HOLLAND YOU NAZI'S. DID YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN STEAL AN IDA AND NO ONE WILL NOTICE. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU. AND DONT EVEN SAY YOU HAD THE IDEA FIRST, MY FRINEDS HAD THAT 2 MONTHS AGO.I HOPE YOU REALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELVS AND THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE NO CREATIVE INTEGRITY AND THAT IS WHY YOU WORK FOR A CRAPPY AGENCY AS APPOSED TO BBDO THAT MY FRIENDS WORK AT. YOUR A FREAKING JOKE.

S.M.Shaikh's picture
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S.M.Shaikh

The add has value for serious and loyal readers.
I think the massege is clear... Good.

bcrogan's picture
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bcrogan

SO HERE THIS GUYS , THEESE DOUCH BAGS COMPLEETLY STOLE THIS IDEA FROM MY FRIENDS IN MY CLASS AT SVA LAST SEMESTER. IF YOU READ MY PREVIOUS POST I THOUGHT IT WAS WEIRD THAT THIS WAS THE EXACT SAME IDEA THAT MY FRIENDS DID, THEN I FOUND OUT THAT MY FRIENDS IN HOLLAND POSTED THIER IDEA ON THIER WEBLOG IN EUROPE AND IN GERMANY. THEN 2 WEEKS LATER THIS LITTLE CRAPPY AGENCY DOES THIS. WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HACKERY. SO LET IT BE KNOWN WHAT THE CREATIVES AT THIS AGENCY ARE ALL ABOUT, BEING UNCREATIVE HACKS. FUCK THEM.

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

Don't you hate that when it happens, I'm with you buddy. You know what tho, you and your friends thought of it first. What comes around goes around.

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

addyhoch10's picture
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addyhoch10

ok bcrogan, calm down. if your friends thought of it first it's sad that the idea has been stolen.
would have been nice to put a link to your friends' weblog instead of screaming around and getting nasty.
if this is really student work i like it slightly more than i did before (though this would never work in 'real life')

vwray81's picture
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vwray81

Sup Ben this is Ray. I'm in all your same ad classes at SVA. I see you found the copycats.

This is messed up I joined this class this semester and did not know those Dutch students from last semester but I did see their NRDC ad and I can say for sure that those Germans most certainly did rip off the Dutch students. It's blatant and obvious. SHAMELESS!!

addyhoch10's picture
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addyhoch10

those bloody germans...
;)

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

z germans are coming! z germans! To steal all our good ideas!!!

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

*sniff sniff* stop picking on my ancestors. it hurts. we are very sensitive.

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

ha, I'm just making fun of the german-hating people above.

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

PaulyG-
ya. me too.
what's with the hate-in anyways?

btw, what up in t-dot? i'm here too.

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

I don't know what's up with some people here. There's certainly a lot of anger sometimes. Where in Toronto are ya? I recently moved agencies. I'm up at Yonge and Bloor.

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

i imagine that you are in one of those "fancy" agencies then. can you feel the seething jealousy? it's palpable.
i am located across from the Rogers Building at Jarvis and Charles. i will not divulge where i work here on the boards. it's too shameful.

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

No need for seething jealousy, this agency isn't that fancy. THe Rogers building eh? You're two minutes from my building. I'm in the Molson Building. (Leo Burnett some people call it). I'm lookin at the Roger's centre out my window right now. Small world.

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

Pauly, your agency is much much much fancier than mine. i don't even work at an agency, it's an in-house studio. i doubt you could see it or distinguish the building i'm in, it's only 3 floors.
my buddy, Tara, used to work in the studio at Leo. but i guess since you just switched over there you wouldn't know her. what a teeny tiny world we live in.

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

I should have clarified, I'm in the Leo Burnett building, but I don't work for Leo - I Wish!! Some day soon. I'm at a smaller agency a few floors sbove Leo.

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

what is this a personal message board? just ask her for number meet for lunch and discuss your agendas. JK it's cool that you meet people like this.

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

pixelbomb1- jealous? just kidding. wondering why your website doesn't have anything on it yet? What's the deal?

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

sorry everyone. back to the task at hand - ripping apart people's ideas and self esteem. lol

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

I was hoping you can do it for me. You sound like a beautiful woman.

You what they say a carpenter but yet his house is not done.

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

No idea what your comment means.

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

nevermind, it wasn't for me.

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

pixelbomb1 - flattery will get you everywhere, but it won't get you free work! :)
though i've never heard of a woman sounding beautiful, i'll still take the compliment.

the_ashlands's picture
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the_ashlands

or typing beautifully.....

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

There is no such thing as a FREE work I hate that term. yeah, I agree with ashland you type beautifully.

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

ellehcimeo's picture
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ellehcimeo

well thank you, both, very much.
this thread went from a hate-on to a love-in!

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

ha, that's true. And the comment boxes keep getting smaller and smaller. I'm getting claustrophobic

pixelbomb1's picture
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pixelbomb1

and the world is getting smaller and smaller...

Sincerely,
Arnold Santillan
714-206-2459

bcrogan's picture
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bcrogan

your abseloutly right i should have put up a link to their site from the begining, here is the link actually , it is the very first post on the link so it will take you right to it.

go here http://www.stef-yona.blogspot.com/

there is abseloutly no mistaken the exact similarities. My friends version is incomplete and because it is a student piece. They needed to get the kinks out of it but its still really cool. These guys had this idea like 3 months ago. they had brought in a compleeted comp to class a few weeks before xmas. Then during xmas break me and my ad partner saw this. We at first thought that my friends had stolen it from the germans. i was like how could a german company get this out so quickly to be stolen. but aparently they can.

Tara77's picture
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Tara77

Dont´t you think that it is quite rude to call someone "a nazi" and to accuse someone of having stolen an idea without having an evidence?

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

I completely agree with the comment above. I work with people who are always accusing other people of 'stealing' their ideas. The truth is that we haven't heard any proof from you that these people stole your idea. And before you continue your slanderous, racist filth, I think you should consider this - it's not a good idea to begin with. Creative, yes. Logical or practical, no. Great message - too bad nobody's going to read it.

salamandos's picture
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salamandos

The idea is great and logical. The "can not read it" argumentation is not necessary as the idea should be presented during an event or sth. - on a parking lot several cars could be equipped this way.

Considering the debate whether this idea is stolen or not I must say that
this would not be the first time that an agency got "inspired" by a student
portfolio placed in the web. And of course "Butter" did not put the idea
before realization somewhere online..

PaulyG_fill in the blank's picture
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PaulyG_fill in ...

I agree - that's how it should be presented, but that's not how it's being presented. It's being stuck onto people's cars without their knowledge, so that when they drive away, it will blow up. Nobody will be reading it, and that's a pretty big problem. The driver won't be aware of it until it blows up, and I doubt if the average person on the street will be impacted.

salamandos's picture
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salamandos

>but that's not how it's being presented.

agreed

zwww005's picture
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zwww005

典型意淫

ooops's picture
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ooops

how long it can hold on?
20second?
30second?
how many balloon needed to print on?
it just not right...

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big bang - and then? there should a sth like a business card for further information

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acaso alguien mira el tubo de escape antes de encender el auto? no lo creo.

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been done by the WWF in a better better way with a greater ballon and a moving car. BTW fock you all over me stupids