MOLD

TitleMOLD
BrandIDEASFIRST
Product/ServiceUKRAINIAN MARKETING FORUM
Category E01. Standard Sites
Entrant BBDO UKRAINE Kyiv, UKRAINE
Idea Creation BBDO UKRAINE Kyiv, UKRAINE
Credits
Name Company Position
Anze Jereb BBDO Ukraine Executive Creative Director
Anze Jereb BBDO Ukraine Executive Creative Director
Denis Keleberdenko BBDO Ukraine Creative Director
Julia Kolesnik BBDO Ukraine Senior Copywriter
Maria Plotnikova BBDO Ukraine Art Director
Maria Teterin BBDO Ukraine Head of Design Studio
Togzhan Slyamgaliyeva BBDO Ukraine Designer
Kseniya Milchenko BBDO Ukraine Designer
Aleksey Katruk BBDO Ukraine Motion Designer
Alisa Komm BBDO Ukraine Account Manager
Sveta Grebenyuk BBDO Ukraine PR manager
Irina Danilevskaya BBDO Ukraine Client Service Director
Victor Ishkov BBDO Ukraine CEO
Anton Ivanov freelance Cameraman
Galeb Al-Maali freelance Candidate of Biological Sciences
Olga Tolkunova 5Lines Managing director

Write a short summary of what happens in the ambient or digital execution or campaign.

In order to get the project to work, we prepared a special layout for the book with perforations for moisture. We experimented to find a material that would allow the mold to spread. We created an environment that was conducive to growing the desired mold while preventing harmful bacteria from disrupting the mold growth. After several unsuccessful attempts, we had to completely abandon the use of toxic materials. We dried out a couple of mold populations and were forced to redesign the city-light panel’s wall construction. This helped create the ideal microclimate, from the illumination to the humidity to the temperature. In short, it was much more difficult than just leaving out a loaf of bread for a week and getting results. After a month of tests, failed attempts and disappointments, we found a solution. Our mold grew. Every day, it spread more. The book began to look older.

Cultural/Context information for the jury

Ukrainian Marketing Forum is an annual marketing conference that takes place in Kiev. It often happens that marketing specialists believe in a cult of some academic knowledge they got during the studying in university and don’t want to study something new. But knowledge gets dated. Earning your degree and quietly working until you retire doesn’t work anymore. The world is changing so quickly that it takes a lifetime to learn your craft. In order to demonstrate this, we took Philip Kotler’s cult marketing book and millions of spores of mold, placed them together in a city-light panel and… let time show off its strength. After a month of tests, failed attempts and disappointments, we found a solution. Every day our mold spread more. The book began to look older. And our message sounded more and more clear: knowledge gets dated, come for something fresh.