Youtube VideoIt’s not just Whitcoulls, with its very public financial struggle and consequent sale in mid-last year, that is being affected by the slow sales of books in New Zealand. With literacy levels dropping year on year, the lack of trading is also keeping our country’s authors downtrodden and many of our stories untold. But the New Zealand Book Council, just like other separate entities like NZ Book Month, which won the not-for-profit gong at the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards last year for trying to put a book in the hands of every Kiwi, is out to change this. And it’s latest ad, which was made by Colenso BBDO and follows up from the haunting and very well-awarded Going West with some more engaging paper artistry, aims to show the printed word can shape and inspire.
A close up of hammer and sickle zooms out to reveal the cover of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto, which is then violently defaced with a drill until the head of Che Guevara appears, sculpted out of the pages.
Credits:
ECD: Nick Worthington
Creatives: Lachlan Palmer-Hubbard, Jae Morrison
Director: Jae Morrison
Producer: Paul Courtney, Jen Storey
Music: Joel Little @ Dryden St
Sound: Joel Little @ Dryden St, James Hayday @ Images & Sound
Grade: Pete Ritchie @ Toybox
Group Account Director: Tim Ellis
Senior Account Director: Stefanie Robertson
Art Department: Brian Hambrook @ Octane Digital
