When 15 million people don’t care about recycling, the environment is sure to head towards slow but sure disaster. Coca-Cola wanted the people of Dhaka, Bangladesh to start thinking about recycling with an arcade machine that runs on empty Coca-Cola bottles. Surely, happiness doesn’t end with an empty bottle of Coca-Cola.
In a world that takes hearing for granted, no one listens to the deaf. As a consequence, only 0.43% of the deaf are employed. What are their hopes and dreams? No one has ever heard. A DEAF DAY PROJECT Plug your ears. Shut out the world. Hear what’s in their hearts. At KFC special stores, we created a live event that let people experience how it feel like being a deaf person. To promote this event, we asked KFC’s CEO to become deaf for a day. Deaf CEOs’ lives were documented and made a short film. We also asked the deaf staffs what are their dreams and let people hear them all through the touch screen posters. The story caught the ear of the entire nation which brought people to the event.
Whether it’s changing it to a cartoon character or a close-up of their beloved pets, people like to play around with their Facebook profile pictures.
But Mães da Sé, an organization in Brazil that helps search for missing children, decided to make people’s profile picture choices into something more purposeful.
In Brazil, Children’s Day (Oct. 12) is a widely celebrated holiday. Leading up to Children’s Day, many Brazilians change their Facebook profile pictures to pictures of themselves as children. Mães da Sé — with the help of Sao Paolo-based agency AGE Isobar — took advantage of the holiday by encouraging people to instead change their profile pictures to those of missing children to help raise awareness and boost search efforts.
Mães da Sé made missing children’s’ pictures, which include information about the children, available for download at http://www.perfildesaparacido.com. According to the agency, during the first few days of the campaign, visits to the picture download site reached 500,000 with 300,000 people ultimately changing their profile pictures to that of a missing child. Thousands of people also shared the site on social networks.
While this isn’t the first time a Facebook profile image has been used as a tool for showing support for a social cause — last spring Facebook was overrun with individuals and brands swapping in red equal signs as profile pictures in support of marriage equality – it is a good example of effectively using Facebook images to raise awareness for an important cause.
Mães da Sé องค์กรที่ทำงานเกี่ยวกับการค้นหาเด็กหายได้จัดแคมเปญในวัน 16 ตุลาคมซึ่งเป็นวันเด็กของประเทศบราซิล พฤติกรรมของคนในบราซิลก็คล้ายๆกับบ้านเราคือจะชอบเอารูปตอนเด็กตั้งเป็นรูปโปรไฟล์ในเฟซบุค เมื่อ Mães da Sé สังเกตเห็นพฤติกรรมดังกล่าวก็เลยตั้งโจทย์ว่า ถ้าในเมื่อผู้คนชอบที่เอารูปตัวเองตอนเด็กขึ้น ทำไมไม่ลองเอารูปของเด็กหาย ซึ่งเป็นคนที่ต้องการให้สังคมเห็นจริงๆขึ้นเป็นโปรไฟล์แทนละ? เว็บไซท์ http://www.perfildesaparecido.com จึงได้เกิดขึ้นเพื่อเคมเปญนี้โดยเฉพาะ เพื่อให้คนที่สนใจเข้ามาดาวน์โหลดรูปภาพที่มีรายละเอียดและเบอร์ติดต่อกลับตั้งเป็นโปรไฟล์ในเฟซบุคแทน
Every day, there are around seven million cars driving around the streets of Sao Paulo. Pollution caused by these vehicles is the cause of death of over 4.5 thousand people in the city, yearly. That is almost three times the number of victims of traffic accidents, for example. Cars are responsible for over 90% of the air pollution in Sao Paulo. In order to help people visualise this invisible menace, we used regular party balloons, and a special adapter, to create the “3 Segundos””project. The initiative measures the quantity of harmful gas that is expelled by vehicle exhaust pipes and provides a clear visual representation of the size of the problem faced by big cities daily. A mere 3 seconds with the engine running produces enough pollution to fill up a balloon. 15 minutes will fill up 300 balloons. A running car will, in one hour, produce enough pollution to fill up 1200 balloons. With this powerful visual representation, the project’s aim was to reveal the true size of the previously ignored problem to drivers and passengers in São Paulo.