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The Morning Newsprint Stole Back Digital's Favorite Trick / ALDI "Fresh Prints"
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ALDI | Fresh Prints | 2018

The Morning Newsprint Stole Back Digital's Favorite Trick / ALDI "Fresh Prints"

I always thought "real-time" was a digital-only thing. But at 7am, vegetables wrapped in newspaper were delivered to homes across Spain, wrapped together with that very day's latest news. A comeback move where print media proved it could capture "freshness in this exact moment."

Just turn on the radio, and the mosquitoes fly away / GO OUTSIDE MAGAZINE "REPELLENT RADIO"
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GO OUTSIDE MAGAZINE | REPELLENT RADIO | 2012

Just turn on the radio, and the mosquitoes fly away / GO OUTSIDE MAGAZINE "REPELLENT RADIO"

A radio station in São Paulo secretly mixed a 15kHz tone into its music programming from 6 to 8pm. Humans can't hear it. But mosquitoes can. Since it mimics the sound of a dragonfly's wings—a mosquito's natural predator—the mosquitoes flee. Just by having the radio on, you get bug protection.

The Day Banknotes Themselves Became an Ad / ASB Bank "MONEY GOES DIGITAL"
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ASB | MONEY GOES DIGITAL | 2007

The Day Banknotes Themselves Became an Ad / ASB Bank "MONEY GOES DIGITAL"

In 2007, ASB, a bank in New Zealand, ran an ad in a place no one had ever seen one before: on banknotes themselves. The idea of sticking stickers onto real, circulating currency won the Grand Prix in the Media category at Cannes Lions.

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