Palestine: Dying to Live
November 25th, 2007 Zeid Nasser (Admin)
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This is a campaign from 2002 which never ran. It was created by a voluntary group of Jordanian advertising and marketing people, highlighting the hopes of Palestinian children, who like any children across the world just want a chance to realize their dreams in life.
Check out the official campaign website.
Entry Filed under: Agencies, Campaigns, Controversy, Creative, Jordan
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1. Moey | November 26th, 2007 at 2:29 am
zaid, please check http://moeys.net/2007/11/26/team-yr-amman-messes-up-with-orange/
2. bisan | November 27th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Those are very nice pictures.. very creative .. good luck in whatever you do
3. restless | November 27th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Nice concept, bad execution
4. biteme | November 27th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Hi restless, it’s very easy to judge (and I know that many times people have asked you about your credentials to judge), but I just have to ask, when you say “nce concept, bad execution” what do you mean, I think you should justify it so people understand your comment. I dont agree with you by the way, but that’s just my opinion…thanks man, and dont take it the wrong way…
5. dean | November 28th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Don’t take ‘restless seriously. Restless has similair negative remarks in most of the posts in the blog.
6. biteme | November 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Dean, I’ve followed restless comments on many blogs, and its not that I am offended by them, i think everyone is entitled to their opinion, just trying to find out what he / she defines as “bad or good executions”
7. Zeid Nasser (Admin) | November 28th, 2007 at 11:56 am
it seems some bloggers find this campaign interesting. Here are some of the blogs that have already linked to it:
http://theblong.fr/wordpress/archives/695
http://theblong.com/wordpress/archives/580
http://pinkmaniacs.h-art.it/archives/694
8. biteme | November 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
too bad (personally) I wont understand a word of any comments on those blogs
9. restless | November 28th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Dean i have negative remarks toward what’s is bad (in my opinion) .
Biteme, i really like the concept behind these ads but i still think that the execution is not that good meaning:
1- I don’t like how they placed the main line on the photo its kind distracting
2- I don’t like the how they colored the heroes using one color (taken from the Palestinian flag ), it would have been much better if they used a well known photo of them with its real colors
3- I don’t like how they are forcing the flag colors in every single element ,I call this” too much unnecessary
repetitions” because the flag is already there!
4- there are too much copy whether it was the main headline or the body copy ( only simply line is enough to deliver the message)
other than that all is fine.
Thanks.
10. biteme | November 28th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
You are right about it being loaded with text, but I think that given the timing right after the eruptions in Palestine at the time, there was a lot that had to be said. Zeid, I can’t remember what the website URL was but if you can share it, I think everyone would have a better idea of what was behind the campaing. For the record, it was one of the first and only times, all the agencies came together in such force, and maybe that’s why we all look at it so proudly:) Thanks for clarifying your points RESTLESS, i dont agree, but everyone has an opinion:)
11. restless | November 29th, 2007 at 10:48 am
biteme are a designer?
12. Zeid Nasser (Admin) | November 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am
I couldn’t remember it either.
But a quick web search delivered it:
http://www.dying2live.com/
13. restless | November 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
biteme are you a designer?
14. biteme | November 29th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
no pride myself on being a GM and a trouble maker, right ZEID:)
15. restless | November 29th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
sorry but GM of what ?
16. =R3@V3R= | December 2nd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Nice ads. I hope they can help with the Palestinian cause.
17. Just_a_guest | December 3rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
GM of JUDO
FYI “restless” GM is GRAND MASTER
18. biteme | December 3rd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
a small agency (sorry for delayed response), In the same way you keep annonymous we’ll leave names out of it…
19. restless | December 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
ok biteme ,, good luck with what ever you are doing .. see you in another post
20. Zeid Nasser (Admin) | December 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Yes, biteme’s agency is tiny.
21. restless | December 3rd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Zeid, how tiny it is?
22. biteme | December 5th, 2007 at 11:35 am
About 72 of us:)
23. Zeid Nasser (Admin) | December 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am
But you know, size isn’t everything …..
Biteme’s agency also had creative work when it was 5 people.
And, to this day, the best creative work in the region is not related to agency size.
24. Just_a_guest | December 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
So since size isn’t everything.
Biteme, what’s your size of creativity?
25. biteme | December 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
didnt understand the question “what’s your size of creativity?”
26. restless | December 6th, 2007 at 10:13 am
its not the size, its the Effectiveness
yes i agree …
27. Just_a_guest | December 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
well, how many innovative ideas? how many creative evolutions?
so, what is the size of your creativity?
28. biteme | December 7th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Who determines what an innovative idea is? what is a creative evolution (the process or the end result)? What are the measurement parameters of the total size? I dont get your questions sorry…:(
29. meedo29 | December 15th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Karim Beethoven is writing in a closed notebook !!
Badly done…
30. Fred | December 22nd, 2007 at 1:48 am
Restless ….Biteme is Amre Husseini GM of Publicis Graphics there in Jordan.
He also operates under Lions Rules and sometimes Amre when he wants to be constructive and nice.
Although this happens very rarely.
31. DamionKutaeff | March 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
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