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2014 Branded Content & Entertainment

SMOK-INK

TitleSMOK-INK
BrandHUMANITAS HOSPITAL AND CANCER CENTER
Product/ServiceSMOKING PREVENTION
Category A05. LIVE EXPERIENCE
Entrant Company TBWA\ITALIA Milan, ITALY
Contributing Company TBWA\ITALIA Milan, ITALY
Production Company FIRST FLOOR UNDER Milan, ITALY
Credits
Name Company Position
Nicola Lampugnani TBWA/Italy Executive Creative Director
Francesco Guerrera TBWA/Italy Executive Creative Director
Mirco Pagano TBWA/Italy Copywriter
Moreno De Turco TBWA/Italy Art Director
Federico Fornasari TBWA/Italy Agency Producer
Gionata “ozmo” Gesi Artist
Mattia Turco Artist Assistant
Marianna Capua TBWA/Italy Account Executive
Virginia Ottina TBWA/Italy Calligrapher
Michele La Fiandra TBWA/Italy Digital Creative Director
Federico Gatto TBWA/Italy Digital Art Director
Chiara Villotta TBWA/Italy Web Developer
Sheldon Cooper Human Touch Music Artist
Flash Factory Flash Factory Video Maker
Dadomani Studio Dadomani Studio Experience Design

The Campaign

We don't have any info about the current situation around Branded Entertainment, for this project. We can say that it's hard for a hospital assert itself about prevention, in particular with teens.

Results

Humanitas is an important hospital and a research facility that every year invests in smoking prevention. They gave us data and medical researches on smoking, and ask us to make teens aware on smoking risks, through an innovative and involving way. 90% of italian smokers started when they were teens, because in our country smoking is cool and is a way to being accepted by friends. The challenge was to prevent teens from starting smoking, by demonstrating them what they are going to do to their bodies, in an effective and shocking way, because they don't pay attention to anyone. We had four thousand cigarettes smoked through a vacuum machine, that filtered the chemicals into water. The result was a black liquid that we used as ink to paint a unique exhibit. In order to get teens attention we re-elaborated medical charts with the most iconic images from art history and we used artistic metaphores to easily explain them complex concepts. The exhibit has been designed to be a sensorial experience: thanks to its shape we made teens feel like they were inside smokers lungs, and thanks to the special ink, we made them smell the damages.

Over 50 schools and 3000 students came to visit the exhibit in Humanitas as well as the 5000 daily hospital visitors, thanks to invitations. After the first phase, the exhibit was replicated several times in two different locations: during the Milan Design Week with free entrance, and in Tenaris for its 3000 employees.

Over 50 schools visits, 90.000 new visitors in Humanitas hospital, 4.000 workers in Tenaris Dalmine, over 1.000 in the opening during the Design Week in Milan, 25 most famous italian newspaper and 3 TV news. 160 blogs. The exhibit, born only for teens, became an interesting experience for every age smokers and was already replicated three times until now.