2018 Winners & Shortlists

SKINS OF PEACE

BrandAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Product/ServiceAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
EntrantTBWA\RAAD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
CategoryPublications & Brand Collateral
Idea Creation TBWA\RAAD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Media Placement OMD Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Production CAPITAL D Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Additional Company FACEBOOK DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

The Campaign

With a tiny budget to tackle an enormous challenge, we had to come up with an idea so creative it could live on its own. If Islam was being misconstrued for being violent and Muslims were treated as a travel threat, merely claiming the opposite would’ve never sufficed. For our idea to be impactful, we needed evidence from the Islamic religion itself that could travel the world to spread the word when Muslims couldn’t. The idea was powerfully simple: transform passports from a means for discrimination into a message of peace. Accordingly, we looked into The Quran, Islam’s Holy Book, as the sole source and true bearer of the essence of this religion, for verses that relay tolerance and acceptance. These verses (in English) would be beautifully transformed into passport holders and would be known as the Skins of Peace.

Creative Execution

This campaign is the collective participation and artwork of designers from around the world, reason why each of the them contain several design elements following a communication brief and starting elements: A peace message from the Quran, a creative design that would help illustrate and explain the meaning of the phrase, the campaign name, the hashtag and the Amnesty International logo. As well as an image that would guide the audience on the steps to fold and apply the passport cover. Designs were mostly developed digitally but each artist had their own style giving the campaign an international and diversity feel. These designs were replicated into large outdoor posters with perforated A4 designed for people to tear and turn into passports. Similarly, the A4 designs were inserted inside as an ad-on to the daily newspapers. Various designs were distributed to the various newspapers.

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

SkinsofPeace.com registered thousands of daily visitors. Content films recorded +45 million impressions and posts received a 120% higher engagement rate than any previous Amnesty International post. Design downloads to date exceeded 250,000 in 2 months. This was aided by the overwhelming global media exposure the idea received: Arabian Marketer, Creativity Online, Culture Pub, Ads of the World, Communicate, The Drum’s round-up for the most creative work and Campaign’s Top 30 Campaigns for 2017 to name a few helped garner international coverage in many languages to expose and mobilize even more people around this cause. Online listening reports registered more than 90% positive sentiment around the world. The Skins of Peace became so popular, we ended up producing larger quantities to be sold on Souq.com with the proceeds going to the “No Ban, No Wall” program. Most importantly however, we got our message of tolerance to the world: Islam is peace.

Because we’re targeting a vast demographic and an even more varying psychographic audience across the globe, we didn’t want this to be a “for-us, by-us strategy.” And because we sought inclusion, we wanted to practice what we preached. The designs themselves would be crowdsourced from across the world as a per-stage for the campaign. From a communication standpoint, we had to cover 2 pillars: awareness and education. The former to spread the campaign and the latter to explain the actual use of the Skins. From a media standpoint, while online would be the main medium, we were keen to complement it with offline presence to allow people convenient accessibility at relevant touchpoints. This holistic approach guaranteed that our idea would have no home or owner, but instead would exist everywhere and take on a life of its own while enabling Muslims and non-Muslims alike to take part.

Credits

Name Company Role
Walid Kanaan TBWA\RAAD Chief Creative Officer
Fouad Abdel Malak TBWA\RAAD Executive Creative Director
Manuel Borde TBWA\RAAD Creative Director
Alex Pineda TBWA\RAAD Copywriter ACD
Clayton Needham TBWA\RAAD Senior Digital Designer
Oswaldo Sa TBWA\RAAD Art Director ACD
Debora Andreucci TBWA\RAAD Digital Designer
Claudio Campisto TBWA\RAAD Head of Art
Ali Cheikhali TBWA\RAAD Senior Strategic Planner
Mônica Yuri / Esra Tasdemir / Nev Fordyce / Enzo Giacomin / Jonathan Mak / Amiru - Designer
Camilo Rojas TBWA\RAAD Motion Graphics Designer
Hazem Atieh / Ezzat Habra TBWA\RAAD Creative Services Managers