Diane - Generative & procedural gif(t)
Jordan Thomis
2nd year graphic design (advertising) Sheffield Hallam.Everything that inspires me.
Diane - Generative & procedural gif(t)
Move over QR code, it’s time for the Touch Code
Ever since mobile was invented, advertisers have been looking at ways to quickly transfer information between their message and the device. We started with bluetooth, then came along barcodes, QR codes and finally more recently RFID and NFC. But all have failed in many ways. Many rely on the phones camera, something that differs between devices. Whatever the reason for their failure, consumers have been slow to take up any of these.
Could the clever guys over at TouchCode fixed this age-old problem? Perhaps. Have a watch above and see for yourselves. I have to say, the technology certainly looks interesting. The codes are invisible, can be printed on any printer and more importantly, can be read by any smart phone. It almost seems too good to be true doesn’t it? There seems to be lots of uses for them too. However, with an app needed to be installed in order to access the information, are consumers not facing the same barriers as before? I guess, only time will tell.
Bartle Bogle Hegarty - Kronenbourg
Work Club - Ballantine’s
Beattie McGuinness Bungay - Cobra
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Cobra is the UK’s no.1 Indian beer brand. But it’s become synonymous with curry, and with 96% distribution in all licensed indian restaurants, can only grow so far. BMB were challenged to reposition Cobra as a credible premium beer to help the brand gain distribution in pubs and style bars and extend from its strong base in Indian restaurants.
We developed a new brand platform to drive this repositioning: “A fresh take on authentic India” – an idea which celebrates the brand’s origins and embraces the bright new culture that is emerging in today’s India. At the heart of the campaign is a TV ad - entirely street cast and featuring three up and coming Indian talents: Manou, India’s first street fashion blogger, leading audiovisual collective B.L.O.T. and food writer Vandana Verma.
However we knew that the brand couldn’t be repositioned with traditional advertising messages alone – cultural credibility was needed to make this new idea of Cobra resonate with their target audience. So we also approached the Guardian with a proposal for a collaborative new approach.
The result was a set of three documentary films featuring our collaborators - each giving us a fresh take on Indian music, fashion and food.
A supporting social media campaign features regular updates from our collaborators, as well as a facebook competition which offer fans the chance to win their own experience of this fresh new India and the world of our collaborators.
This advert for Cobra does what it sets out to really well it takes a product which every one knows and only drinks in a specific setting and makes it appealing to a wider variety of occasions. They use young, good looking actors, a song which is currently fashionable and a nice warm looking setting to associate the product with summer.
