Amnesty International Ads Show What's Happening
Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Fri, 06/02/2006 - 18:07.
Amnesty International in Switzerland broke a new outdoor campaign May 29th that was created by Walker Werbeagentur Zuerich. The campaign uses the tagline "It's not happening here but it's happening now", in various languages, from French to German. Using the transparent billboards, the campaign aims to show people what is going on in the world, even if it's not happening in front of them at the bus stop. The ads portray issues in countries like Iraq, China, and Sudan.
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that. is. some. real. good. execution.
I wonder if they have any pics of the orange jumpsuit guys blowing up buses in Israel. I'm pretty sure there are some people in Israel who want amnesty from being blown up by those guys while going grocery shopping.
Nobody pointed this out yet? Transparent posters that rely on the background to make an impact has been done before, by Dabitch herself even. Remember the Sonox campaign in Amsterdam? Later badlanded because some local papers sports pages had done that same "framing" thing.
Ok, fine, so the similarities is just in the posters being transparent. I try. ;)
This campaign is great. I predict Cannes metal.
Heh. Cute.
Are these posters really transparent though? They seem like they can be in some cases, for example the one with the orange-jumpsuited prisoners - that type of poster-site can't be made transparent, it seems more likely it's a photograph specifically designed to be at that site.
In the Sonox case we had to build the transparent plexiglass posters ourselves, as regular poster media can't do transparent, there's usually lights and crap in them.
Aren't these just photoshopped images? It's too good to be true.
It's impressive how much people are taking notice of this.
From the first two posted, if you look closely they don't line up totally with the surroundings (roof and the tree)...it's slightly off which makes me think they are photographs of the location. Although I've no idea if that's the case for all of them.
They all look like photos of the background montaged for each poster site - which makes me wonder, what do they look like at night? Pretty strange I assume. ;)
Ok, any adgrunts in Switzerland? Please take a photo of the posters at night and upload/email we wanna see it!
Found someone who took a snap of one of these here on Flickr.
I found some Amnesty posters on flickr too. None taken at night though. ;)
But there are some wide posters, like this wide poster and this other wide poster taken from an off angle, both in trainstations. And then this one, on the street.
So if somebody blows himself up and kills innocent people you have the right to treat suspects as animals before even taking to court. Also you can fire rockets to potential suicide bombs sitting on a beach. Well they are 5 years old but who cares? They will grow up and become suicide bombs.
Justice is not for a group of people, it is for everybody. I read the news of suicidebombers with tears in my eyes for the innocent who dies with this twisted rage, but treating all the arabs as potential bombs and treating them like animals? I still can not understand how a nation suffered so much from prejudice somehow justifies the same prejudice to others.
Remember the transparancy meme? see here on flickr all screens transparent.
Fallon did this 20 years ago with an image of a pregnant Mary, Joseph and a camel waiting for a bus. Still works but it's not original
... Oh yeah... I recall seeing something like that. Anyone able to get an image of said ad?
Amnesty just finished a brilliant commercial on the same "Not here, but now" thought. I think it's even better than the posters. Click on English:
http://www.walker.ag/index_walker.php?cID=ai&mID=0
They all look like photos of the background montaged for each poster