The hubby and I will be celebrating our first anniversary soon (just over a month and a half!). We’re planning a trip to Mexico, which I am SUPER pumped about, but I also want to get him something special. Anyone have any wonderful ideas for anniversary gifts?
Creative Public interest Advertisement: Every winter, people die on the streets. - Yaratıcı Kamu Yararı Reklamı: Her kış, insanlar sokaklarda ölür.
The campaign aimed to make people aware of the life-threatening situation faced by people who live on the streets, especially in wintertime. In the winter, they dressed a mannequin as the Grim Reaper and placed it next to a road sign. The mannequin held onto the sign in such a way that the sign ended up looking like a scythe. “Death” wore a sign around his neck, saying: “Every winter, people die on the streets. Help us stop this from happening”.
Where do billboards go when they die? Well, in this case, they went into the hands and onto the shoulders of everyday people. Turning ads into bags is just one more way Chevrolet is Driving Our World Forward, one billboard at a time.
I love this letter—much of it is true, and much of it is just plain funny. :)
April 19, 1955
Dear Mr. Calt:
On March 22nd you wrote to me asking for some notes on my work habits as a copywriter. They are appalling, as you are about to see:
1. I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home.
2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement which has appeared for competing products during the past 20 years.
3. I am helpless without research material—and the more “motivational” the better.
4. I write out a definition of the problem and a statement of the purpose which I wish the campaign to achieve. Then I go no further until the statement and its principles have been accepted by the client.
5. Before actually writing the copy, I write down every concievable fact and selling idea. Then I get them organized and relate them to research and the copy platform.
6. Then I write the headline. As a matter of fact I try to write 20 alternative headlines for every advertisement. And I never select the final headline without asking the opinion of other people in the agency. In some cases I seek the help of the research department and get them to do a split-run on a battery of headlines.
7. At this point I can no longer postpone the actual copy. So I go home and sit down at my desk. I find myself entirely without ideas. I get bad-tempered. If my wife comes into the room I growl at her. (This has gotten worse since I gave up smoking.)
8. I am terrified of producing a lousy advertisement. This causes me to throw away the first 20 attempts.
9. If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.
10. The next morning I get up early and edit the gush.
11. Then I take the train to New York and my secretary types a draft. (I cannot type, which is very inconvenient.)
12. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or five editings, it looks good enough to show to the client. If the client changes the copy, I get angry—because I took a lot of trouble writing it, and what I wrote I wrote on purpose.
Altogether it is a slow and laborious business. I understand that some copywriters have much greater facility.
Yours sincerely,
D.O
Wouldn’t something like this be awesome in a kitchen, maybe for hanging hand towels, or even utensils?? LOVE it!
(via falling-in-love-tomorrow)
I am so making these for our Christmas tree this winter (and possibly to give away as gifts…). Want to join me? Learn how to make them yourself!
