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Crest Glide teeth floss: Sleeping

Crest Glide teeth floss: Sleeping
Your rating: None Average: 6.9 (15 votes)

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Tony Granger
Executive Creative Directors: Jan Jacobs, Leo Premutico
Creative Director: Alison Gragnano
Art Director: Menno Kluin
Copywriter: Icaro Doria

28 Comments

Stigset's picture 1461 pencils

Ok so if I get this right, The white font (sleeping) represents the teeth, and the little green font (garbage truck) represents the annoying thing that gets stuck between your teeth. Thus using the floss to take away all your problems. Isnt this a bit far fetch ? Cool concept though. I think i like it

kre8's picture 993 pencils

this one is missing something somewhere for me.
dental floss is a long way from my mind when im in "manhattan" or having a "big night out".
its a stretch.
a big stretch..

Dick Huges's picture 939 pencils

My name is Dick Huges and I approve this campaign. At least is not a floss ad with a small piece of food hidden somewhere.

lsadunb's picture 581 pencils

Brilliant. The best thing I've seen here since the vaccum cleaner plane demo.

Dick Huges's picture 939 pencils

i dont remember that one... can you link it?

spygroove's picture 10 pencils

this one:
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/ambient/hoover_vacuums_product_demo

Edit: sry for the multiple posts, got that error with firefox:
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addyhoch10's picture 2599 pencils

yeah, i get that message too every time i post a comment when using firefox...

edit: didn't get it this time! fixed?

ivan's picture

Sorry, there is still a small problem, but it's almost fixed now...

lsadunb's picture 581 pencils

Yeah! That one! But seeing it again, this dental floss campaign is better.

spygroove's picture 10 pencils

plz delete

copywriter.txt's picture 832 pencils

Good concept. Doria always come up with good stuff.

Hey, Ivan, take note:
AG: Saatchi & Saatchi (NY)
CW: Icaro Doria
AD: Menno Kluin
DC: Tony Granger / Jan Jacobs / Leo Premutico / Alison Gragnano

ivan's picture

Ah, thanks. Icaro Doria - a legend in Brazil.

copywriter.txt's picture 832 pencils

A legend also on the net. Do you remember Grande Reportagem Magazine Flags campaign e-mail chain?

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, João Roque, Andrea Vallenti and João Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail. Icaro gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated by Isabell Erdmann:

The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.
This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

With regards to the email presenting the campaign as being done by a Norwegian diplomat, this information is completely wrong. There is no Norwegian diplomat called Charung Gollar, there was no presentation in the UNO, and the campaign is not called ‘The Power of the Stars’. This was all invented and is going round the world via email.

That’s it, basically.

ICARO DORIA

Dick Huges's picture 939 pencils

hyahahahahaha

timcurrysbadaccent's picture 83 pencils

The visual is a metaphor.

The floss REMOVES ANNOYING BITS.

addyhoch10's picture 2599 pencils

i LOVE these!!

adstrike's picture 334 pencils

Something is missing… the product should remove the annoying thing in your teeth I don’t see the benefit clearly…

Rog's picture 6110 pencils

Fresh, fun, clean, simple. Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

>>>> That's not an ad. THIS is an ad.

Rog's picture 6110 pencils

C A N N E S G R A N D(ad 'rules')P R I X

>>>> That's not an ad. THIS is an ad.

Boony wants a beer's picture 380 pencils

I seriously hope you never judge a Cannes Festival.

Jet Propulsion Lab's picture 10715 pencils

Nice. :)

I do appreciate the fact that some creative thinking went into this campaign.
But I have to agree with those who said it's a little bit of a stretch. I just don't buy the whole "floss your problems away" proposition here.
I like the art direction (visual metaphor), though. It does have a certain stopping power. Fun to look at at least.
I really don't see it winning at Cannes or One Show or any other major competition. But we'll probably be seeing these in an Archive magazine or Graphis...

jacksonrabbit's picture 292 pencils

I like the idea but the art direction is rubbish, the way the type moves at a 45 degree angle from left to right instead of a parabola like a mouth annoys me as does both of the fonts. It's a good campaign but it could have been better.

Have Heart's picture 922 pencils

Nice new twist, very good campaign.

Rog's picture 6110 pencils

Through to the keeper, Boony.

>>>> That's not an ad. THIS is an ad.

nitigya79's picture 53 pencils

Really good way of putting things in a visual manner.

heythereyou's picture 16 pencils

GREAT

gilly f.'s picture 39 pencils

what can i say, adorable!

let me give you a secret about: i wish i had found this idea!

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