2016 Promo & Activation

RUPTURALISM

TitleRUPTURALISM
BrandLENOVO
Product/ServiceMOTO X FORCE
Category A02. Durable Consumer Goods
Entrant BISTRO Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Idea Creation BISTRO Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Media Placement BISTRO Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
PR BISTRO Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Production BISTRO Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Credits
Name Company Position
Pavel Flegl Bistro Creative Director
Ondrej Vatascin Bistro Account Director
Pavel Brucek Bistro Art Director
Jan Ridl Bistro Creative Director
Alexandra Michajlova Bistro Art Director
Tereza Stehlikova Bistro Social Social Manager

The Campaign

The very act of breaking the display is followed by emotions such as frustration, disappointment, sadness or hopelessness... and therefore every broken display carries its own special story. These emotions and the shared experience of a broken screen is what inspired us to develop a campaign promoting the new Lenovo flagship phone. We started with creating our buzzword RUPTURALISMUS. The name comes from the Latin term ruptura, which means “fracture”. We got together with a real academic painter to bring the shattered displays stories to life - this time painted on a large canvas. Rupturalismus became a name for the art movement we created. We made a documentary film and created a Facebook platform. The idea began to grow wider across social media and the Rupturalism phenomenon also created a large response in offline world. In the second part of our campaign Lenovo became a natural part of the campaign.

Campaign Success

We joined up with a real academic painter to bring the stories of the shattered displays to life in large form on canvas. We started with three paintings. Each in the size of 90x160 cm - following the 16:9 screen size ratio. We shot a documentary film about our idea and the paintings and placed it on the Facebook. We played with the overall "artsy" tone of voice which became popular and also parodied amongst audience. The idea began to grow wider in the realm of social media. After three weeks we started the delicate unveiling where Lenovo became a natural part of the campaign. Everything kicked off with a dialogue between Lenovo and Rupturalism Facebook pages. Documentary film was followed by three mini-documentaries, each revealing the story hidden in broken display on canvas and offering an alternative to the the world of destroyed displays - the Moto X Force.

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

Although the campaign was originally intended only as a social media project, our new art movement Rupturalism also appeared on TV, radio and in all major Czech periodicals. People shared their own stories of broken displays on our Facebook page spontaneously. All paintings were sold to the private art collections. Rupturalism became a social phenomenon and more than 52% of Czech population was suddenly talking about it. Our campaign also influenced our academic painter, who has found a natural continuation of his work in Rupturalism. Now he is in cooperation with Lenovo preparing a big exhibition. With our campaign we changed the way people think. The campaign ended, but the phenomenon still lives on.

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

Our idea launched as a social media campaign but it has multiple times overcome its initial purpose. We kicked off the discussion in art/design oriented groups. General public joined the conversation rapidly through social media. Message about our campaign naturally appeared on radio, TV and in all big Czech periodicals. We created a social phenomenon that simply couldn't be overlooked.

We decided to create a new phenomenon. Something that could spread organically and would appeal to our sophisticated target group. We wanted to turn the negative emotion accompanying broken displays into something positive. We established a broken display as a topic in the society and offered the new Lenovo Moto X Force as a elegant alternative.