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Dutch Association of Traffic Victims: Mobile coffin

Dutch Association of Traffic Victims: Mobile coffin
Your rating: None Average: 7.3 (3 votes)

Every year 40 people die using a mobile phone while driving.

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art director: Jan-Willem smits
Copywriter: Edsard Schutte
Photographer: Arno Bosma

Comments

freshman's picture 126 pencils

What an easy formula. String the brand and the message together to create an ad. Well…I’m tired with this execution.

msred's picture 499 pencils

.....mm. that lady looks asleep... not dead.

Edsard's picture 156 pencils

She should look asleep. Would you put a photo of a dead girl on your mobile display?

msred's picture 499 pencils

no that'll be creepy.

thelastword's picture 14 pencils

Hi Ivan,

what's so great abt this ad? how come this one in the front page? well, if the idea is 'coffin', even that doesn't come thru.

chintan ruparel's picture 1518 pencils

no wait...i like this ad...so simple and to the point! its saying what it has to, so effectively...good one

~ old habits die hard, older ones never do ~

Edsard's picture 156 pencils

Thank you. The first one with a positive comment.
I was already gonna doubt this ad,
allthough it recently won a bronze Eurobest in London.
:-)

popdistortion's picture 1612 pencils

Well, after seeing awful executions of this idea in the exhibition area, I must say that this agency has solved the case. Good job.

Justin's picture 176 pencils

I like it.

Also had the same comment abt the art direction about her looking like shes sleeping, and I acknowledge the reply that nobody would put a dead person as a pic on their display, but I think I woulda pushed it subtly a little more towards looking like she could be dead.

Otherwise, very nice.

restless_r's picture 266 pencils

simple and straight to the point ,, life is so easy why to complicate it?

HV's picture 138 pencils

I think this it pretty good, not great, but good.

Sometimes the combination trick works.
In this case I would say aproved!

velurp_advt's picture 12 pencils

Simple idea. But that lady looks asleep not dead

msred's picture 499 pencils

thats wat i said.

Have Heart's picture 922 pencils

Nice one. Good thought, good execution. Can somebody please stop brainless idiots commenting ads?!

tiny_wordz's picture 305 pencils

i like the ad. it simple and relevant.

TheAdMad's picture 557 pencils

She should look dead...I know it's creepy, but that's the point, right?

www.TheAdMad.blogspot.com

ellehcimeo's picture 3536 pencils

she should be wearing clothing. i think that's why she looks asleep, it looks like she's taking a nap in the nude. if they gave her some god awful dress, and put some makeup on her, she'd look more like she was in a coffin. and maybe use a satin pillow, often the insides of a coffin are very intricate, with beautiful colours of fabric and special gathering sewing techniques used.
they could have made it more realistic, but ultimately, i like the idea, the art direction gets a 6/10.

Mo's picture 648 pencils

"Hi Ivan,
what's so great abt this ad? how come this one in the front page? " : thelastword dude, every NEW idea/campaign good or bad comes to the front page. Front page doesn't say " these are the best entries " ; it says " these are the latest entries".

Disco Munky's picture 3839 pencils

Good idea. Art direction could have been better. That said, I could also have been born with massive tits and no butt hole, so I guess we'll just forget abut it for now. Later

Doin' it for the points

daniel upputuru's picture 16 pencils

zebras ki le raha hain kya bushes mai

Disco Munky's picture 3839 pencils

well, when you put it that way.

Doin' it for the points

me thinks's picture 722 pencils

I see no evil! I love it. Cheers, guys.

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