Shanghai Blood Center: Blood Donation Hourglass
You could be saving someone's life this second, and he could be saving yours the next.
The brief: The whole of China is in lack of blood donation at present. In Shanghai, blood is needed every 90 seconds, however, the resource of blood is always in shortage. Hence, the challenge from the Blood Center was to increase the awareness about the urgency of blood donation and to get the public to be more active. And Christmas is a season of " giving ", so the Blood Center hopes we could design a Christmas gift to give out to white collars in companies to recruit more donators.
The idea: To raise awareness of the urgency of blood donation, we created an hourglass with red-colored sand in it, which represents the blood. And we printed the profile of a man and the Red Cross on each side of the timer. So when you turn the hourglass up side down from time to time, you can easily find out the relationship between "you" and "the Red Cross", anytime one of them is running short of blood, the other side can help instantly.
Advertising Agency: TBWA, Shanghai, China
Creative Directors: Yang Yeo, Elvis Chau, Lesley Zhou
Art Director: Leo Lee
Copywriter: Nicky Zhang
Illustrator: Amani Qian
Photographer: Jun Li
Published: September 2006
16 Comments
quite nice, but i guess it would have been even better with one of those liquid hourglasses. no one has sand in their vains as far as i know.
You´re right, but I think it could be kind of impressive with red liquid inside, lots of people can´t see blood.
Saludos
Agreed.
Sand hourglass is cheaper to make. Or maybe they really didn't think that far.
Good comments, thank you friend.
your welcome.. leo? :)
It's figurative.
Very nice idea, it shows the duality of the action. You give, but when you need, you have something for you.
Nice - simple and direct. I think it works best with the sand. Yes, blood is liquid - but an hourglass is filled with sand, and it's the hourglass that's the metaphor here. It's enough that the sand is red.
that's right. plus, peole, imagine that whatever liquid they had put in there, the effect would have been wierd - either it would have poured down too quickly, and the message would get lost, or too slowly and..."messy", if you know what i mean - it would have left the inside glass dirty with that liquid. anyways, good good idea
Nice thinking. Effective. Well done.
Great idea. Great execution.
steady yang...hope to see more nice work from you and your team...cheers!
Yeah its good, a nice, simple, fun idea.
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not practical. the hourglass this type is way too fragile to be delivered as direct mail.
the graphics don't seem to communicate like what they intended to. if change to a human icon donating blood on one side and a human getting blood donated on the other side, it'll be more meaningful. plus no upside-down fonts needed.
im not being cynical...bt hasn't this been done b4? seems a lil familiar somehow..i guess somebody in d forum tried somethin like dis...
~ old habits die hard, older ones never do ~
i do not like this.
michael
Great idea, lovely execution, gets the message across instantly, good show guys:)