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9 March 2010
BBDO designs campaign for Paralympics
TORONTO—The Toronto office of BBDO has created a print and television campaign for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games. Its services were donated by its North American president and CEO Gerry Frascione, who sits on the Paralympic advisory committee.
The team at BBDO's Toronto office said the Paralympic project was very inspiring
BBDO's Toronto office said the Paralympic project was very inspiring


The inspiration for the print campaign came from the television spots, says art director Julie Nikolic. “These high performance athletes train hard, compete with intensity and push the boundaries of human achievement,” she says. “The campaign is meant to celebrate the athletes themselves, we wanted the images to be the heroes of the ads.”

Conduit ITC was chosen as the font for its clean, light qualities, which wouldn’t distract from the photography. “The lines are powerful themselves but we didn’t want them to compete with the photographs of the athletes,” she says. Contact: Bbdo.ca, Vancouver2010.com









— Val Maloney
   
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1. R. Miller says:
9 March 2010 at 11:57 PM
yawn.

the kind of boring ad you expect from a big ad agency

advertisements are overrated.
2. Anonymous says:
16 March 2010 at 3:15 PM
I love this campaign. Very inspirational message. Especially if you know people who are in paralympics.
3. Anonymous says:
16 March 2010 at 3:52 PM
Nice presentation, yet I find them to be kind of dull. I think color would be more appropriate... Black and white feels depressing to me. They need to be more vibrant, especially for the Olympics.

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