Winners & Shortlists

THE IKEA RGB BILLBOARD

TitleTHE IKEA RGB BILLBOARD
BrandIKEA
Product/ServiceIKEA
Category A03. USE OF OUTDOOR IN A MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Entrant Company THJNK Hamburg, GERMANY
Advertising Agency THJNK Hamburg, GERMANY
Production Company I MADE THIS Hamburg, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Armin Jochum Thjnk Ag Chief Creative Officer
Bettina Olf Thjnk Ag Executive Creative Director
Georg Baur Thjnk Ag Creative Director
Torben Otten Thjnk Ag Creative Director
David Lasar Thjnk Ag Art Director
Nicolas Schmidt/Fitzner Thjnk Ag Art Director
Niko Auf Dem Berge Thjnk Ag Art Director
Björn/Thore Bietz Thjnk Ag Account Manager
Sandra Stoltze Thjnk Ag Account Manager
Constanze Frink Thjnk Ag Account Manager
Alexander Kovrigin Thjnk Ag Strategist

Results and Effectiveness

Our clever billboard not only used 27m2 instead of 9m2, it reached far beyond its frame and into the online world. Dozens of important websites (Time, Mashable, Adweek and many more besides) featured it, generating hundreds and thousands of views among our target group worldwide—and all for the price of a single billboard.

Creative Execution

With a simple billboard and just three different lights, we showed the audience that IKEA is the still master of intelligent small-space usage. An important message especially for the many students who just started college and had to move into a small-space apartment.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

When space is limited at home, you need clever solutions. That also holds true for advertising. Our idea: 1 billboard. 3 headlines. 3 colors. 3 light bulbs. When the billboard is illuminated by green light, only the text printed in magenta is legible. Bluish-purple light makes yellow visible. Red light reveals blue. This is how we turned 9m2 into 27m2. And one billboard into more than just one billboard.