Shortly before Christmas, Graham Lewis, Creative Partner at GREEN, was asked by the newspaper to produce some speculative political posters for the forthcoming General Election: “to get a flavour of the political parties’ possible tactics, the Independent on Sunday asked six leading advertising agencies to produce these exclusive posters to give readers a sneak preview of how an election campaign might be fought.”
The result is a series of trenchant yet creative posters pre-empting the tone of the current campaign.

Graham comments on his poster as “A succinct one-word headline using a clever corruption of Dave Cameron’s surname. We want people to understand the simple message that he isn’t fit for No 10.”

Click here to read the article and see the series of poster.

I recently came across this really interesting website: http://voteforpolicies.org.uk/.

It allows you to make a blind comparison of the policies proposed by the different political parties for the next General Election and to base your vote on policies rather than on personalities or prejudices. I did the survey myself (although I am not entitled to vote in the UK) and the results are pretty interesting.

I think it’s a great tool to foster participation and political awareness, although I am not sure that if you were intending to vote for the Greens and that after taking the survey it turns out that you “should” vote for the BNP you should necessarily take up this advice…

Below is a graph showing the turnout rates of the General Elections since 1945 (http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/turnout.htm)

The Green Awards is looking for the best examples of ‘Green marketing‘, ‘Ethical advertising‘ and ‘Sustainability communications‘ from the  past 12 months. This could be for any communication, project, campaign or website etc.

To mark its fifth birthday, the Green Awards is going global. For the first time, all 17 categories will be open to entrants from all over the world.

The categories for the 2010 Global Green Awards are:

* Best Green Educational Project (Promoting Sustainable Development Issues) - NEW
* Best Fair Trade Campaign Award (Any Media) - NEW
* Best Green New Product Innovation - NEW
* Best Social Marketing Campaign Award - NEW
* Best Green Third/ Charity Sector Campaign Award
* Best Green Financial Product Award - NEW
* Best Green Advertising Award (Print & Outdoor)
* Best CSR Report Award
* Best Green Direct Response Award (Direct Mail /Drtv / Dr Radio Etc)
* Best Green Event Award (Shows / Exhibitions)
* Best Green Internal Communications Award
* Best Green Mixed Media Award (Integrated)
* Best Green Moving Image Award (Audio-Visual / Tv Spot / Short Film / Animation)
* Best Green Packaging Award
* Best Green PR Campaign Award
* Best Green Public Sector Communication Award
* Best Green Use Of Online Media Award (Banners / Social Media Campaigns / Websites)
* Green Awards Grand Prix (Awarded by the Judges)

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