Ads of the World

Ads of the World™ an All Creative World site

Stabilo highlighter: Economics

Stabilo highlighter: Economics
Your rating: None Average: 5.3 (17 votes)

Highlight only the good bits.

Advertising Agency: Grey, Hong Kong
Creative Directors: Paul Chan
Copywriters: Paul Chan
Art Director: Sonic Choy
Photographer: Jeffrey Leung
Retoucher: Simon Kwan

9 Comments

ivan's picture

Right on target! This is exactly how I felt when studying Economics in high school. :)

club9's picture 40 pencils

Yeah, me too Ivan. I hated economics.

This hits all the right buttons by 'highlighting' the benefit in a very funny way.

Such a cool, insightful campaign !

Guest's picture

dislike the type treatment of the super. why highlight something that is handwritten?

Filipe's picture 317 pencils

It's the Reynolds campaign with more "blabla"
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/reynolds_highlighter_cyclopean

tjb1970's picture 474 pencils

this one is better than the previous, but overall the idea is weak. highlight only the good bits? isn't that the whole point of highlighters in the first place? what's unique here?

Denes's picture

Hey there,

To be honest I must agree that the idea is great. Cheap execution but still well done and so on, it made me smile, and I think from such a product ad - this is a rare commodity.

On the other hand I looked at something like 3 executions before realizing it was STABILO, who has done that. The point brought up at one of the other ads about building the category only I believe very valid.

Where this could get interesting is to go out and get to the schools. Make it local. Take a shot at the exact books that thousends of students are looking and and make sure the page number is there at the bottom. This way you make it close, you make it real.

In order to leverage this though you might want to put STABILO posters around in the school as well... maybe.. well I am not sure. Say hello to modern product placement - goodbye adless private sphere.

What do you think?

-Dénes

Guest's picture

be clear before be clever. yes, these are very witty executions but i don't exactly get the benefit of the product we are highlighting (no pun intended).

nyzz's picture 80 pencils

nice and funny

ska's picture 61 pencils

Done over a year ago.
Check out www.shehanwriter.blogspot.com

____________________
Shoot the messenger.

Ads of the World advertising archive and community showcases fresh creative campaigns daily from around the world. Read more

Recommend us on Google