Focus on the product

Focus on the product

Hewlett Packard printers, scanners and multifunction devices stand for excellent performance, top quality and innovative technology. So you don't need a lot of trappings - but above all yourself to advertise yourself. Ideally, they should always be the center of attention. Client: Hewlett Packard Use: Switzerland, 2001 Agency: Publicis, Zurich Creative Direction: Daniel Krieg...

All-wheel drive at the highest level

All-wheel drive at the highest level

Internationally, Mercedes-Benz promotes the topic of all-wheel drive without snow. No question: Switzerland cannot adapt such campaigns. It needs its own. Preferably ones that show where you stand with a Mercedes-Benz. Namely at the top. Client: Mercedes-Benz Use: Switzerland, 2002 to 2005 Agency: Studer & Wohlgemuth, Zurich Art Direction: Thomas Schicker Text: Arne Völker

Less is more

Less is more

How can you still effectively promote something that every Swiss person already knows anyway? By doing a little less. And simply letting words speak without any pictures.

Shevchenko 1 - Switzerland 11

Schewtschenko 1 - Switzerland 11

I can't add much more to the words I wrote for Vontobel as part of this campaign - and which appeared today in the sports section of the NZZ. I wish the Swiss national team every success in the round of 16. Or, to put it more popularly: Hopp Schwiiz!

No surprise hits

No surprise hits

The headline wasn't right at all for Philipp Lahm and his teammates when they surprisingly took the lead in the 6th minute on Friday evening. That was actually quite surprising and anything but lame... Obviously it worked with the home field advantage that the agency Unikat and I had in the first World Cup...

Home advantage Germany

Home advantage Germany

It's strange to be sitting here in Switzerland today and pondering Germany's home advantage from there. Especially because everyone in Switzerland is probably in favor of Costa Rica. But I already wrote this ad a few weeks ago. Today it is the first of many to appear (among others in the...