Marie Claire: Blood
In the April Issue. Living with a Japanese gangster.
Advertising Agency: Net#workBBDO, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Alexis Beckett, Ivan Johnson, Kyle Cockeran
Art Director / Illustrator: Mary-Anne Grobler
Copywriter: Mike Pearson
Photographer: Barry White
Other additional credits: Natasja Madinda, Ashleigh Kohn
Published: April 2009



11 Comments
Compelling enough to make me go search for the magazine and read the article.
dig it!
Very, very nice ad.
Transom Draught - Always check the level of the water behind you.
Clever and simple.
clever
The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time
if i have a womans magazine and a bloody stain on what looks like a cotton pantie, i dont think about gangsters.....
Which is why there's a handy line of copy underneath to explain it all to you.
good
My first thought was that 'Japanese gangster' is the latest menstrual euphemism...
Well it also looks like the Japanese flag.
Reminds me of a Greenpeace ad against Japan's dolphin fishing.