


Fresh Advertising Ideas
Gazeta Mercantil is a financial newspaper in Brazil like The Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal. It’s subscription based and in a country where illiteracy levels are at 30% a newspaper like this talks to just below 5% of the population. The brief was to devise a communication to increase and maintain subscription, which creatives Roberto Fernandez, Pedro Izique, Mario D’Andrea and Gustavo Gusmao approached with 2 thoughts. First that any piece of communication should respect its audience and second, that the best way to talk to people about money is with money. Take a closer look at the prints, a vital move because what looks like a euro or a yen or a dollar at first glance tells the in depth history and culture of that bank note at second, and with incredible detail. Well done to everyone involved, especially Pedro, the art director who didn’t sleep for 2 months and who with the rest of the team seized this as an opportunity to execute something prickly and iconic.
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There’s a longstanding assumption in this business that the best
work will spring from London or somewhere along Madison Avenue and then
ripple across the world. And sure, there is much wonderful work that
radiates from these great locales, but they no longer serve as the
epicentres of the known world.
Great ideas can and do come from anywhere. Much of the world’s best
digital creativity comes from Scandinavia and Brazil, the best radio
from Chicago and Manila (see Radio City post below) and no one, it
seems, does print quite like Asia-Pacific. Last year the world’s most
celebrated Nike print work came from our Shanghai office. The same for
Levis was created by our Indian colleagues. At last week’s Global
Creative Challenge, Asia-Pacific produced the three most highly rated
print campaigns.