2015 Promo & Activation

SPEAKING IMAGES 2015

TitleSPEAKING IMAGES 2015
BrandWORLD PRESS PHOTO
Product/ServiceWORLD PRESS PHOTO ANNUAL 2015
Category C06. Publications & Media
Entrant Company SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Advertising Agency SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Advertising Agency 2 PLAN.NET Munich, GERMANY
Media Agency MEDIAPLUS Munich, GERMANY
Production Company INSTITUTE FOR PRINT AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AT CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY (PMTUC), GERMANY
Production Company 2 HASTINGS AUDIO NETWORK Hamburg, GERMANY
Production Company 3 ATELIERBUCH Chemnitz, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Alexander Schill Serviceplan Chief Creative Officer
Cosimo Moeller Serviceplan Executive Creative Director
Matthias Harbeck Serviceplan Executive Creative Director
Joana-Marie Stolz Serviceplan Creative Operations Manager
Katy Pergelt Serviceplan Agency Producer
Leonardo Assad Serviceplan Copywriter
Valerie Koch Serviceplan Copywriter
Fabian Hupfauf Serviceplan Art Director
Franziska Stroehle Serviceplan Graphic Designer
Florian Panier Serviceplan Executive Creative Producer
Prof. Dr. Arved C. Huebler pmTUC Professor of Print and Media Technology
Maxi Bellmann pmTUC Producer
Martin Mellendorf pmTUC Producer
Cornelia Beate Ahnert atelierBUCH Bookbinding/Book Designer
Oscar Meixner Hastings Audio Network Sound Design
Maurice Kraemer Hastings Audio Network Sound Design
Dennis Gunske Hastings Audio Network Audio Producer
Thomas Kisser Hastings Media Mus Sound Design/Music Composer

The Brief

World Press Photo asked us to design a special edition of their yearbook. In the brainstorming process, we wanted to make the book visually more impacting by removing a great amount of text, but the client finds more and more relevant to tell what is behind the winning pictures. How can you tell the stories of the photos without using text?

Campaign Success

In order to tell the stories behind the winning pictures, we developed a unique project: 2015 World Press Photo Speaking Images - the first book, where every single picture will be able to literally speak. Through an innovative printing process, developed in the last 7 years in conjunction with the Chemnitz University of Technology, each printed image is also a fully printed loudspeaker. Each image tells the observer its own unique story, provides background information and evokes emotion with genuine voices and authentic sounds. The book was launched for the first time on the World Press Photo Award Day, where photographers and press were able to experiment a fully new sensorial experience.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

With more than 300 Articles within the first five days and a reach of 16 million people in unpaid media - the World Press Photo Speaking Images attracted high attention – including well-known publications such as Focus, Bild, mdr, RTL Aktuell, Wired, Page and Wissenschaft24 – since it did not only show the best images of the year, but also the stories behind them in a never-before-seen-and-heard way. Plus, the idea contributed to the development of a new technology, which is the next step in the history of print technique.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

Since 1955, World Press Photo has honoured the world´s best photojournalism. The resulting archive is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but also a showcase of successive styles in photojournalism. In order to promote the 2015 World Press Photo Awards, to raise awareness on the story behind the winning pictures and, on top of that, surprise the audience and the press, we developed a unique project: 2015 World Press Photo Speaking Images - the first book, where every single photo will be able to literally speak.