Archive for August, 2008

The ad ‘Save 8 lives’ for the donor association Re-born to be Alive has been voted best non profit ad by the national newspaper De Standaard. This year’s winner was praised for ‘its sexy and surprising interpretation of a very serious topic’.

It’s the sixth time De Standaard organises its so called ‘Standaard Solidarity Award’. The winner will be rewarded with free advertising space.

The most recent of fierce summer storms caused considerable water damage in one of the big stores of our client Top Interieur. This forced them to organise a giant clearance sale of their furniture.

To announce this sales action, we made a wet t-shirt print campaign. Sales start August 16th, but you can stop dreaming, the t-shirts are already dry again. So is the furniture.

On the first day of the Olympics, the Belgian Olympic Committee visited a number of Belgian maternities to congratulate parents with their newborn babies. Former Olympic champions gave all parents a symbolical 88 flowers. Attached was a greeting card with the message: “DEAR PARENTS, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US AN EXTRA SUPPORTER.”

This action was part of multimedia campaign with the campaignline: ““1.3 billion chinese, 10 million belgians, we are going to need all our supporters.” ”

The unexpected visit of Ulla Werbrouck (gold in Atlanta), Gella Vandecaveye (silver in Atlanta), Ingrid Lempereur (bronze Los Angeles) and Dominique Monami (bronze in Sydney) got a lot of media exposure, even making the frontpage of Belgium’s biggest newspaper.

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