Blits Stik… The Quick and The Stick

Advertising Agency: DDB South Africa
Executive Creative Director: Gareth Lessing
Art Director: Brendan Hoffmann
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Copywriter: Vincent Osmond

ONE | Join celebrities in making poverty history

One by One

Here is an interesting MySpace video clip that promotes ONE initiative, celebrities like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, and many others join forces in this clip to drag attention to poverty, and invite people to come as ONE.

Blast from the past… Figure out the missing shape!

Figure out the missing shape.

Apartheid Museum | 80% were forced to live in 13% of South Africa’s land

Interesting ad, to view it probably, click the image. As you can see the way the message was placed in the ad perfectly communicates the message. During Apartheid eighteen million people were forced to live on only thirteen percent of South Africa’s land. 4.5 million were given 87%

Advertising Agency: Grey South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Executive Creative Director / Art Director: Mike Barnwell
Copywriter: Jack Malepa

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Eveready | Energizing you!

Advertising Agency: King James Johannesburg, South Africa
Executive Creative Director: Alistair King
Creative Directors: Adam Livesey, Matthew Brink
Art Director: Greig Watt
Photographer: David Prior
Illustrator: Rob Frew
Copywriter: Jacques Shalom

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Global Handwashing Day… Clean Hands Save Lives!

Clean Hands Save Lives! Today marks the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, an initiative by Health in Your Hands, UNICEF, Unilever, and many others, the campaign aims to transform handwashing with soap from an abstract good idea into an automatic behavior performed in homes, schools, and communities worldwide, specially before eating and after using the toilet.

I never thought that handwashing could be something that you need to urge people to do, I always thought it’s an integral routine of people’s lives, but if you think about it, many people in Africa, and maybe few part of Asia don’t have drinkable water, so you should expect them to was their hands probably.

According to their website, approximately half of the 120 million children born in the developing world each year will live in households without access to improved sanitation, at grave risk to their survival and development. Poor hygiene and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88% of deaths from diarrhoeal diseases, accounting for 1.5 million diarrhoea-related under-five deaths each year.

What a screwed-up planet we live on! When you look at cosmetics, perfumes, fashion… and all the irrelevant-to-human-living stuff, you can’t imagine that many people on this planet are unable to wash their hands to get them clean, and event worse, can’t find clean water to drink. Humans are the worst creatures ever.

Personally I think such initiatives worth the support, at least to have more priority than those focusing on animal rights, I know humans are so brutal to their fellow animals, but they are even much more brutal to their fellow humans.

Happy Handwashing Day!