Video: "Completed Portraits": Polish Company "Shoe" Classic Portraits
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The shoe company KIWI from Poland has taken the advertising campaign to a new level. They not only creatively approached the very idea of how to tell about their products, but also managed to enlist the support of leading museums in order to create so-called "augmented reality" for the most famous canvases of the classics of the art world.
The idea of the campaign Completed portraits “(“Portraits Completed”) was to create the“lower half”of famous portraits, try to imagine how the legendary artists would depict the legs of their models. For example, KIWI artists suggested that Van Gogh could be shod in ordinary leather lace-up shoes, and Jan Vermeer may have posed a girl in blue sandals that would match her dress.
The ad campaign won two awards, the Golden Lion and the Bronze Lion, in the Print & Publishing competition at the Festival de Cannes this year. And this victory was due not only to the creative approach, using the classic canvases of great artists, but also to the creation of a special application for smartphones.
The company that developed the entire concept was Ogilvy Chicago … They also created a playful audio tour that describes the pictures involved in the advertisement. The voice tells both real facts about artists and paintings, as well as funny speculations regarding their shoes. The company even teamed up with museums that exhibit these portraits to help put together the app. After downloading it, users can see the same "augmented portraits" on the screens of their smartphones - just take a picture of the picture, as the application will show, the second part of the portraits is the one that was created for KIWI.
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