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RICElebrate | 生米组成

RICElebrate is a new creative agenyc out to change the world | 全新广告公司‘生米组成’致力于改变世界

 

The advertising industry is notoriously accused for creating a world of excess and extravagance. Former Creative Officer at Chiel PengTai, Peter Shen, is trying to change that. Earlier this year he started his own agency, RICELebrate. The name stems from the importance of rice in Chinese society. Peter shared the inspiration for the name explaining, “as Chinese, we turn rice grains into cooked rice and many other forms of goods such as noodles, congee, rice wine, all of which are not only important source of nutrients, but also joyful ingredients in life. Our team wants to do exactly that: taking “rice grains”— ideas, technology, media, brands – and turn them into something fun, something meaningful.”

广告业有一个不好的名声 —— 太过冗余和奢华。但是现在，曾在杰尔鹏泰广告担任首席创意官的Peter Shen却要改变这种情况。今年，他成立了自己的广告公司RICElebrate。之所以起这个名字，是源于中国社会对米的重视。Peter对这个名称的灵感来源解释道，“在中国，我们会把米粒煮成米饭，也可以做成面条、粥、米酒等等，米不仅仅是我们重要的营养来源，同时也是生活中令人欢喜的元素。这正是我们团队的心里所想：要把“米粒” —— 也就是想法、科技、媒体和品牌，变成好玩又有意思的东西。

Peter Shen, RICElebrate founder | 沈翔 RICElebrate 创始人

 

RICElebrate is founded with the intention to solve some of the world’s most pressing social issues.  The idea is to use design and creativity as a way for companies and brands to make a meaningful impact.

RICElebrate的成立就是为了解决世界面临的一些最紧迫的社会问题。各个公司和品牌可以利用设计和创意给世界带来有意义的影响。

The team’s guiding tools are social design and attention design.  Social design, as described by the agency “aims to solve social issues while also creating business value for brands, so that sustainable investments can be put into social topics”.

RICElebrate团队的指导工具就是社会设计和注意力设计。公司对社会设计的定义是，“致力于解决社会问题，同时也为公司创造商业价值，这样，可持续投资就成为了社会话题”。

An example of social design is the agency’s Green Box campaign.  To compensate for the large amounts of waste generated today, a thin piece of brown paper with seeds infused is attached to each delivery box.  The intention is for consumers to plant a tree for every package ordered.  At a minimum through this campaign consumers are made aware of the detrimental side effects of an economy increasingly reliant on delivery services.  The paper technology and idea were all created in-house, now the trick is finding a client who wants to take on the campaign.

公司举办的Green Box活动就是社会设计的一个实例。关于快递盒子产生的浪费问题，公司设计了一张嵌入了种子的薄薄棕色纸张，跟每个快递盒子放在一起，目的就是为了吸引消费者的注意力，每订一个快递，都要去种一棵树，起码要让消费者意识到，快递服务型经济的迅猛发展，带来了很多负面影响。这背后的科技和理念都是公司内部团队自己想出来的，现在这个宣传活动的点子已经被一个客户看中了。

The second tool, attention design, is the use of creative design in everyday scenarios to get consumers to pay attention to a social issue.  The agency won a Grand Prix at China’s prestigious ROI awards last month for an innovative attention design campaign called “The Tape Pledge”.  Created for Suning, the campaign dramatically raised awareness about animal poaching.  A little bit of red liquid was placed inside tape, which had commonly poached animal graphics (or graphic images) on it, so when customers received a package and cut open the tape a little bit of red squirted out.  The in-your-face design, with the shocking moment of blood squirting out from the tape, was hard for any consumer to ignore.  The campaign won two bronze at The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in June this year.

第二个工具，也就是注意力设计，就是要把创意设计融入到日常生活中，吸引消费者关注社会问题。上个月，RICElebrate赢得了中国著名广告盛会金投赏的全场大奖，获奖的正是公司为苏宁打造的“承诺胶带”公益项目，它极大地唤醒了人们对猎杀动物的意识。消费者在划开印有保护动物图案的胶带时，会出现像血一样的红色液体。这样赤裸裸的动物图案摆在面前，消费者很难视而不见。今年六月，这部作品还赢得了戛纳国际创意节两项铜奖。

The Tape Pledge | 承诺胶带

 

There is no shortage of pressing social issues that the team wants to address.  The challenge rather is nailing down the best business model so their ideas can be implemented.  So far they have been busy pitching projects to potential clients.  Unlike the traditional model of a client approaching an agency, RICElebrate has turned this model around and approaches brands, companies, and NGO’s that it feels would benefit from its social design or attention design campaigns already created.

团队还要解决很多迫切的社会问题。现在的挑战是如何确定最佳商业模式，把想法付诸实践。现在，他们也忙着参加多个项目的竞标，找寻潜在客户。传统的做法是，客户会直接找广告公司，帮助其宣传某种理念或产品。但是，RICElebrate的做法却完全相反，他们直接去找他们认为可以从已有社会设计活动和注意力设计获益的各个品牌、公司和NGO。

 

Beijing Team | 北京团队

 

Shanghai Team | 上海团队

 

RICElebrate is headquartered in Shanghai and has already opened an office in Beijing.  The agency is no doubt still working to find its proper footing in China’s agency landscape.  To view more creative campaigns waiting for implementation scan RICElebrate’s QR code below.

RICElebrate总部位于上海，现在也已经设立了北京分部。无疑，现在他们也在试图在中国广告业找到适合自己的立足点。更多即将上线的创意活动，请公司官网扫一扫公司下面的二维码。