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Amnesty International: Chop pencils

To raise awareness and drive activism about human rights violations in China with an emphasis on prisoners of conscience, torture and executions. We placed chopsticks that are actually pencils at Chinese restaurants encouraging people to write to the Chinese government rejecting torture.

Copy on package:
Tuck under thumb and hold firmly.
Write the Chinese government to help end torture.
Take further action at amnesty.org/china.
Don’t let human rights violations by the Chinese government give China a bad name.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, USA
Creative Directors: Josh Rubin, Jason Musante
Art Director: Michael Arguello
Copywriter: Bassam Tariq


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Kevin said,

January 5, 2011 @ 04:00

I noticed the Chinese for isolation and loneliness are actually identical, except written in two different script (if I’m not mistaken, the top one is in Simplified Chinese, while the bottom one is in Traditional).

There’s more commonly used translation for “despair” as well.

I’m all for the social reform, but I think it’s poor design to get the “foreign” words wrong. It’s akin to bad “Asian” tattoos.

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