Puro Faitrade Coffee: Staple
Make yourself more useful. Have a coffee break.
By drinking Puro Fairtrade Coffee, you contribute to the preservation of the equatorial rainforest and help improve working conditions of small coffee farmers.
So next time you’re wasting time at the office, make yourself useful: have a coffee break.
Advertising Agency: McCann Lowe, Brussels, Belgium
Creative Directors: Benoit Hilson, Olivier Roland
Art Director: Arnaud Piette
Copywriter: Jeremie Goldwasser
Photographer: Thomas François
Published: April 2011
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Actually one might say that's pretty useful ;p
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Having a thought for the poor person who did this. I bet he received 30$
I don't think it's real...seems digitally designed.
But I like the take on working on the rainforest rather than the city as well as the other msgs =]
It is absolutely not digitally designed...We actually did it ourselves, staple block after staple block. It took us two days & we've got the pics to prove it :) (btw, we originally designed NYC but didn't shoot it)
this was "lifted" from an artist, can remember who, have to check my bookmarks
Here's a couple of examples to start with:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/04/article-1271998-096BE2440000...
http://oliveloafdesign.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/staple-city.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4475132522_c3d61f078c.jpg
There's so many of ads using this kind of concept! Here's just one of them...
http://www.advertolog.com/ms-windows/print-outdoor/pins-12582205/
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Nice ad..
nice
yes
McCann Lowe? Where's the IDEA and is the art director on sabbatical? Whats the 'I Love NY' sticker doing on that corner?
shahid
the guy's a fan of new york. he's building a little new york in staples.
Question for Jergold (nice to see one of the team down here with the baying crowd by the way): in an ad for a coffee that contributes to the protection of the rainforest, was it intentional that you showed someone constructing a city, which is likely to be the end result of the deforested land? Or was that an accidental benefit that you can now advise your client to capitalise on?
No, had it been intentional, we would have made it more obvious.
However, I'm not sure i agree with you... cities are not the 'opposite' of forests, and forests are not always destroyed just to so they can be replaced by cities.
The whole problem is more complex than that... I am aware, however, that advertising tends to oversimplify issues. Oh well.
I'm not trying to dichotomise here, it was just my first reaction on seeing what looked like an architect's desk, and the link between building and destruction wasn't that much of a leap. But seeing the others in the campaign, I see it was just a display of office distractions, and that I overconnected. And as you say, advertising can oversimplify. We have to. People won't spend as they're told if we leave them too much wiggle room to think for themselves otherwise.
Yeah, I agree, the image of a city is a bit strange.
But anyway the idea is good.
//usevertising v.s badvertising//
C'est une question de vie ou de mort.
Great ads...
concept is gud....but its not original
concept is gud....but its not original
I love this actually.
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Funny.