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Comune di Siena: Grandmother

Comune di Siena: Grandmother
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Fragile. To protect and help the third age. Call 800 300 300.

Advertising Agency: Milc, Siena, Italy
Creative Director: Giampiero Cito
Art Director: Matteo Scheggi
Copywriter: Giampiero Cito
Photographer: Bruno Bruchi
Art Junior: Benedetto Cristofani
Strategic planner: Antonio Paolo
Published: October 2009

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Quite nice
shom

mikeelrapido's picture 859 pencils

Fine idea.

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hagemony's picture 270 pencils

yes, agreed.

Prof's picture 857 pencils

not literal enough!!!!1112

Quite really.

Juan Cabral's picture 719 pencils

In advertising, Siena is the Italy of Italy.

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imma liking this mucho

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un po' un giochino.

Guest's picture

goood, I like it

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7

Clever idea and simple.

Pedestrian's picture 238 pencils

I think it's a bad idea and the message is also misguided. Do the elderly want to be known as "fragile?"

And visually showing the elderly in styrofoam peanuts as a way of expressing how "fragile" they are seems very much like the first thought. I think if any agency sat down for a day and thought of ideas for this, they'd come up with about six better concepts.

Fragile = fragile package = styrofoam peanuts....Not a good concept.

HellasLover's picture 351 pencils

i agree with pedestrian, idea is "first thought" but still works. I'm just curious if the term "third age" exists? I have never heard of that before...wouldn't "older generation" or simply "elderly" work better?

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silvi's picture 1464 pencils

Nooooooooooo!!! Very Disturbing. Poor people!

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ugly photo

martois's picture 50 pencils

hmmm, these ads are a little patronising I think. I don't think my Mum and Dad would like them (being of a senior age themselves) and whilst you could argue that seniors are not the target audience for these ads I think the advertising message is supposed to be one of respect for the elderly, are these images respectful? I'm not so sure.

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I saw the same creative idea in Latvia - musician Aisha CD cover.
CD was on sale on 25th of September'2009.
Snobby
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Search in Google images: Aisha Dveselite

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Protect ok, but help?

rolling.stone's picture 1164 pencils

lovely Idea, not sure about third age term,

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They should have wrapped the heads in plastic.

freakybro's picture 7 pencils

They should have wrapped the heads in plastic.

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