AWARD SCHOOL FAUX PAS?
August 17 2007, 2:55 pm | | 11 Comments
A NZCC blogger points out the similarity between the recent AWARD School Melbourne posters created by George Patterson Y&R Melbourne (below), with last year’s NZ Herald campaign (left) created by M&C Saatchi, Auckland that got metal at Axis and was shortlisted at Cannes.
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Aside from being a blatant rip, it looks better and works better the second time around.
nah…I don’t see it…
Visuals are exactly the same. That’s enough.
That’s about as barefaced as you can get. Cheeky fuckers. 5.13 – agree the idea is better presented second time around, but I don’t think the copy works anywhere near as well as the Herald ads
Sure, the visuals are identical, but isn’t the thought different? The first lot says you’ve been in your job too long, the second says that you should do AWARD school, otherwise you’ll be stuck in a piddling role at the agency for the rest of your life ie. Catmur’s foot-rest. That is Catmur isn’t it? It’s not a 100% rip. Maybe 85%?
My mistake. Having now bothered to read the copy, isn’t the second lot saying you can basically employ an AWARD School graduate to do ANYTHING in your office? Awesome. Come on guys, spend $800 and become a hat-stand. Pretty bang on really.
Forget about whoever did the ads. What about the losers that approved them. Award School people… wouldn’t they have a handle on work being done in the region? This rip off slipped though? Sad. Should have approved an ad with poo in it if they wanted the work to win an award. That is edgy.
would all you losers get a grip and start producing real ads for real clients?
An ad with poo in it would be shit.
I’m a real client and I demand real ads!
I only know one person whose favourite word is poo. How are you, Phil Poosanage?