Tag Archives : public awareness campaign

One of the horrible and tormenting realities of human world is the abuse and pain human beings inflict on little innocent children and other human beings. Casa Do Menor’s latest campaign titled ‘Hands’ against sexual and other kinds of abuse of small children is very disturbing. The tag line: Certain Things hang on forever. Set the kids free [...]

Catholics slam Joanna Krupa’s nude PETA ad, saying that ‘the Dancing With the Stars alum uses a crucifix in a way it was not intended.’ PETA is back in the thick of controversy with the naked angel’s ‘racy, cross-bearing ad for animal rights.’ The Catholic League is said to be unhappy ‘that the Playboy model “exploits Christian [...]

Three ads from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and ACNUR send a message for and in behalf of the world’s refugees via visuals that are so heavily and beautifully photoshopped that one can no longer feel the ugliness of the raging social malaise upon which the public awareness campaign is based. The advertising campaign asks the question: Would [...]

From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual communication should be. The transit [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months. The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re “Pouring [...]

Elm Grove Police Department has found a way to make people drive people slowly. To emphasize “Slower is better” they have put up interesting speed limit displays on roads. These speed limit display signs also show other figures like accident bills, chances of a crash and number of days one may spend in hospital bed in case of accident. The figures [...]

Towards the end of 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyante (MIC) chemical gas spilled from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. The accident, commonly dubbed ‘The Bhopal Disaster,’ created a dense cloud that enveloped a population of more than half a million people, exposing more than that [...]