What Goes Around Comes Around
By Marc van Gurp on 9 May 2009Read moreNew York based agency Big Ant International have won a Gold Pencil for Design (Public Service Poster) at the One Show Design Awards with their work for Global Coalition for Peace. Four posters were designed to wrap around poles,...
2Change the Web Challenge now open for submissions
By Marc van Gurp on 24 February 2009Read moreYesterday the Social Actions’ Change Web Challenge started. The challenge is about building innovative tools to help people to find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. The...
Greenpeace Design Awards 2009
By Marc van Gurp on 3 February 2009Read moreGreenpeace Australia Pacific is hosting a new design award. The aim is to motivate the global creative community to develop visually striking artwork that encourages the public to support Greenpeace and take action on critical environmental issues. The brief...
First World Virgins
By Marc van Gurp on 8 January 2009Read moreThis video made by a Humanitarian Lion supporter is a kind of spoof on the Whopper Virgins video from Burger King. The video reminds us that millions of people cannot enjoy the world and asks us to help them...
Action Against Hunger: BEASTS
By James David Morgan on 19 November 2008Read moreThe Spanish nonprofit Accion Contra el Hambre (Action Against Hunger) received an ECHO award for their BEASTS campaign. E-mailed to nearly 300,000 individuals, the message opened with a simple scene – just one insect, three words and an interactive...
The Intercontinental Advertising Cup – a global festival embracing local culture
By Serge Feneko on 13 November 2008Read moreI just returned from Slovenia, where I was judging the Intercontinental Advertising Cup (ICAC). The Cup is a global advertising festival embracing local culture. The Cup was established in 2007 by four regional festivals – AdFest (Asia-Pacific), FIAP (Latin...
Mankind Is No Island
By Marc van Gurp on 8 November 2008Read moreMike from metamike send me this heartbreaking film. It is this years winner at Tropfest NY, world’s largest short film fest. The 3 ½ minute film, made by Jason van Genderen, was shot entirely on a cellphone, on the...
Social ads in New Europe – Golden Drum winners
By Serge Feneko on 19 October 2008Read moreLast week I was in the Interactive jury of Golden Drum. Golden Drum is the most important advertising festival in New Europe (countries of Central and Eastern Europe). The festival is growing due to the rapidly growing advertising budgets...
Is this modern fundraising?
By Marc van Gurp on 12 October 2008Read moreThe Brooke’ ‘Taru’s Heavy Load’ / Whitewater / UK These five video’s are the nominees for the international Gold Star Award for Excellence in Fundraising DRTV (Direct Response Television). The winner will be announced during the International Fundraising Congress...
Words sometimes really do hurt
By Marc van Gurp on 1 July 2008Read moreThese two video’s are the winners in the Nationwide (USA) Cyberbullying PSA Development Contest organised by Sony Creative Software, The Ad Council and the National Crime Prevention Council. The purpose of the cyberbullying PSA contest was to leverage the...
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