I stood dumbstruck, looking at the latest poster campaign for our Green Capital campaign. Type only, a headline with no direct involvement for the reader, copy with no specifics, and generic web addresses buried at the bottom as a half-hearted call-to-action. How did such a dull poster possibly get made ...
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#brands, #sustainabilty, #vancouver, #beer, #design, #defybrandgravity
Is Vancouver’s streetcar branding off track with B.C.’s transportation policies?
I spotted ‘Vancouver’s 2010 Streetcar’ on a testing run at the Granville Island terminus today. Aside from the visual stopping power of this sleek modern Bombardier train, an equally sleek transit advertisement on its side is what caught my eye. “The climate is right for trains.” it boldly proclaims. I ...
Green chicks rule.
Ever since I first laid eyes on the Orion Slave Girl from the original pilot episode of Star Trek, I knew. Now the research backs it up. A study recently called Eco-Insights, released by Earthsense, identified women as the green market’s most important movers. If you have a green brand, ...
Metro Vancouver’s new anti-waste campaign: Cool green, or just plain Grinchy?
This holiday season, Vancouverites may have noticed a trashy little ad campaign from Metro Vancouver encouraging them to re-think their holiday waste. These are transit ads at my local Canada Line station spied on my way to Oakridge Mall (OK, I’m busted – not all of my shopping takes place ...
Green Briefs readers tell all.
You clicked, you voted, you commented. Then I procrastinated. So before the data is dated, (not to mention the iPod prize) I am happy to present some of the more interesting findings from the Unicycle Creative Brand Survey 2009. And of course, reward one lucky clicker. The objective was to ...