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Greenpeace China: Staple Trees

Greenpeace China: Staple Trees
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The more you staple, the more trees are chopped. Save office paper.

Advertising Agency: Firstell Communications, Shanghai, China
Chief Creative Officer: Murphy Chou
Creative Director: Yun Jin
Associate Creative Director: Jun Chen
Art Director: Murphy Chou
Copywriter: Murphy Chou
Illustrator: Murphy Chou
Photographer: Ken Goh
Executive Media Director: Michelle Wang
Media Buyer: Lisa Shen
Published: December 2009

31 Comments

Gi_bo's picture 1331 pencils

the artwork is BRUTALLY WELL DONE!!. But i dont know, staples making up trees would actually be a code for rather the opposite...

GiBo

tirthomitro's picture 2186 pencils

hats off to the ideators!!

they showed me a picture & i laughed
dignity has never been photographed

xcreativity's picture 2384 pencils
8

amazing! congrats

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satrianee's picture 3782 pencils
9

what a patience. this is "art"work. the "stepped" idea of focusing on the staples makes the idea deeper than direct mention of the paper too... to staple, you need more than one leaf.

rawaa's picture 35 pencils

lovely artwork

aaaron's picture 103 pencils
4

Nice artwork but yhe idea is old...

TheSituation69's picture 19 pencils

GREAT!! cant imagine how long it took them, looks awesome zoomed out

Paloma's picture 512 pencils

Love the artwork. Just the artwork.

smartbox's picture 179 pencils
5

The same for me: "Love the artwork. Just the artwork"
:)

thaistylez's picture 222 pencils
10

incredible art work...

needless to say !!

:O

Fridgerator's picture 458 pencils

Concept's a tad off isn't it? Plenty of staples on there but the art is a forest full of trees. I understand that in order to staple you use more than one piece of paper, but still, visual and copy don't really work in a tandem for this one. Incredible art regardless.

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The concept is only as good as the execution.

Blest's picture 4 pencils

Amazing execution and great conceptual idea.

Blest's picture 4 pencils

but ya the copy could use some work

morse's picture 8826 pencils
8

Super cool, will share on my FB.

What hath God wrought

umang27's picture 2 pencils

Great execution!!

But going by the copy.. this artwork alone should be responsible for the cutdown of so many trees.

popmilk's picture 36 pencils

so... how many trees are used to make this ad?

mosho's picture 295 pencils
10

i agree with popmilk
the artwork is amazing but how many trees are used to make this ad they r trying to convince ppl with something they cant do :D

akshaysrikar's picture 426 pencils

whoaaa! intense ... love it

angieraj's picture 434 pencils
1

Isnt the whole ad a big paradox? Dont use staples, but look for the ad I have used about a million...wonderful.

Thumbs Down.

Cognito Ergo Sum

Dadaism's picture 161 pencils

Awesome Visual!!! But a fail advert............ What a waste.

Dadaism's picture 161 pencils

Might be the translation that course all the problem.

pepsiice's picture 253 pencils

I think the numerous amount of staple wires that were used was a sacrifice that had to be made. it's more impactful in that manner and it DOES make the point more obvious. =') these guys are crazy

Adaddicted's picture 3417 pencils

chou yun jin jun chen lu ken goh wang shen mao kens cao................... well done!!!

withalltherespects

R U serious's picture 380 pencils

It doesn't surprise me that this was made by Chinese people.

Say my name, say my name...

Dzsoi's picture 4985 pencils

Not really, no. You stopped thinking when you found something spectacular with 'staples' and 'trees' (let's say it: first thought). These trees are not destroyed by staples but made of staples. And this faulty logic leaded you to make a controversial ambient. Silly idea wonderfully made.

Wordnerd's picture 6617 pencils
5

visually awesome. but why a healthy forest out of stapler-pins? would make more sense to see cút down trees, right?
Also the stapler thing is symbolic for using paper. the more you staple, the more trees are cut down is just wrong. the headline should just say save office paper.

slammary's picture 216 pencils

I love this artwork, awesome! Really new executive method. I would like to buy it, really! There's not only the patience, but also the passion!

For creative people, we all need new thinking direction. Copy and art needs more corperation and communication.

Above all, this is a storm. I am looking foreward to see a series like this in the PRIZE Archieve!

coco koo's picture 3 pencils

It's great. Nice artwork!

Billoughsby's picture 5127 pencils
9

Save the iron ore!™

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-Lubeo Buburnubett

Tononoke's picture 16 pencils

SO YOU CHOPPED LIKE HUNDRED OF TREES TO MAKE THIS ART, VERY CONSIDERATED

Guest's picture
9

realllyyyyyy nice!

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