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Each has a sticker on it, just as you would see at the store. You look closer. It’s not food at all, but trash, junk, odds and ends of plastic and cigarette butts. What is this, you wonder? What you're looking at is really an alternative out-of-home campaign for a group that promotes the protection of the beaches, called Surfrider, based in San Clemente, Calif. The goal of the campaign, developed and executed by Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, was to raise awareness of the threat to beaches by the huge amounts of trash that's washed up and left behind. Surfrider wanted the agency creative sorts to come up with a campaign that would reach consumers in places they would not expect it. A farmers market seemed to fit that definition handily. “It started with a beach cleanup and we ended up with 30 or 40 bags,” says Felipe Bascope, creative director on the project. He says the garbage was separated and placed in the cellophane and Styrofoam packaging, then taken to area markets. At each stand, Surfrider members and agency people were there to explain the campaign and answer people's questions. © 2008 Media Life |
