Wednesday, September 17, 2008

There must be something in the water in Canada



They do such great work up there. Like this by TBWA/Vancouver for the BC Lung Association.

As a copywriter, I'm a big fan of all-type ads. This is, I think, just brilliant.

A lesser art director would have felt the need to insert a photo of a cigarette. Or some guy smoking. One from New York would have felt obligated to get Annie Liebowitz to shoot it.

Mies Van Der Rohe was right.

3 comments:

Paul said...

What did Mies Van Der Rohe say?

Woody Hinkle said...

"Less is more."

Paul said...

Thank you, Woody. I looked at several sites that had his designs, etc., but couldn't find any written wisdom or philosophy.

Paul