BABEL-THERE IS ALWAYS A JOB TO BE DONE.

Short List
TitleBABEL-THERE IS ALWAYS A JOB TO BE DONE.
BrandHORNBACH
Product/ServiceDIY HOME IMPROVEMENT SUPERSTORES
Category A08. Retail Stores, Restaurants & Fast Food Outlets
Entrant Company HEIMAT Berlin, GERMANY
Advertising Agency HEIMAT Berlin, GERMANY
Media Agency CROSSMEDIA Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Production Company TRIGGER HAPPY PRODUCTIONS Berlin, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Guido Heffels Heimat/Berlin Chief Creative Officer
Frank Hose Heimat/Berlin Creative Director
Marlon Fischer, Nicolas Blättry Heimat/Berlin Copywriter
Felix Pfannmueller Heimat/Berlin Art Director
Tim Holtkötter Heimat/Berlin Account Director
Pep Bosch Trigger Happy Productions Director
Paco Femenia Trigger Happy Productions Cameraman
Franziska Falk Heimat/Berlin Account Manager
Franziska Lequen Heimat/Berlin Account Manager
Jared Leistner Heimat/Berlin Art Director
Kenzi Benabdallah Heimat/Berlin Art Director Digital

The Campaign

At an undefined location people from all over the world with different nationalities and cultural backgrounds gather and start collaborative construction project. But they do not communicate with each other, each party works for themselves. In addition every one works with their own construction method. While one group is building a door, another group walls it up already. Immediately after finishing up a wall, it gets sawn up. This happens over and over again. We witness a huge disorder, in which everyone works against each other. At the end the workers stand in front of a huge and shaky house, consisting of many different building styles. It comes to the inevitable end: The building starts to wobble and collapses spectacularly. After the collapse the people look clueless at the ruin of their work. The claim of the campaign emphasizes the final scene: There is always a job to be done. Finally the mass of DIYers awakens and get it together. Together they start over again and for the first time stand helping to each other’s side