In 2004 the magazine Grande Reportagem, a Portuguese news magazine, switched from being an independent monthly publication to a weekly supplement in the Saturday edition of the daily national newspaper Diário de Notícias.

The creative challenge of the campaign was to reaffirm the magazine’s unchanged commitment to serious journalism by focusing on topics that are important for people’s understanding of the world today.

The campaign encompasses eight fundamental themes. In addition to child labour and the war in Iraq, other subjects addressed the distribution of wealth in Brazil, child mortality in Burkina Faso, drug trafficing in Columbia, the abuse of woman in Somalia, the spread of infectious diseases in Angola and energy wastage in the European Union.

This led the creative team to the concept “Meet the world” and to the idea of using flags of different nations as vehicles to transmit it. In each case, the colours that appear on various national flags were used to symbolise a social or political issue that is specific to the country in question.

Icaro Doria, a 25 year young Brazilian who works for the magazine Grande Reportagem in Lisbon via FCB Publicidade (*the ad agency) created this poster campaign of flags together with Luis Silva Dias, Joso Roque and Andrea Vallenti.

Epica Award

Inspired by the great artwork by Brazilian designer Icaro Doria for the magazine Grande Reportagem in Lisbon, Portugal, Sven Assmann designed a German flag in 2006. He found the flags at anina.net.

Two month after the first briefing session in Shanghai, we had a first look at some works. The idea: An exhibition in Berlin in October with the works of designers and artists from China.

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After three days we almost photographed 1000 visitors with the German flag at the EXPO 2010….

All portraits and some impressions from the Farbwerte exhibition at the German Pavilion pretty soon and right here…

5月1日至3日在2010年上海世博会德国馆与德国国旗一起拍摄的肖像照将不久被公布。我们感谢您的耐心。

After a two day photo shooting at the German Pavilion here some first impressions. We’re close to 1.000 Portraits. Many thanks to the whole staff from the German Pavilion. You’re great! We’re looking forward to the third day of our Farbwerte photo shooting.

All portraits and some impressions from the Farbwerte exhibition at EXPO 2010 pretty soon and right here…

5月1日至3日在2010年上海世博会德国馆与德国国旗一起拍摄的肖像照将不久被公布。我们感谢您的耐心。

What colour is happiness in China? Or good luck in Africa? Or anger in Eastern Europe? Are any colour meanings universal across cultures and continents?

A visualisation of the meanings of different colours in different cultures by David McCandless and AlwaysWithHonor.com.

The chart encompasses 10 different cultures, and 62 emotions.

Informationisbeautiful

Fast Company

Mittlerweile müssten alle Displays auf dem EXPO-Areal aufgebaut worden sein.

Insgesamt 16 Großfotografien werden bis zum 21. Mai 2010 zu sehen sein. Am 19. Mai 2010, dem NATIONENTAG wird auch der Bundespräsident Horst Köhler am Deutschen Pavillon erwartet.

Hier einige Bilder aus der Produktion in Shanghai:

Biggest outdoor entertainment event in history’ may eclipse 2008 Olympics opening:

SHANGHAI – TICKETS to the opening day of the Shanghai Expo have sold out, the organisers said yesterday.

The lucky visitors can look forward to the ‘biggest outdoor entertainment event in history’ that will launch the six-month extravaganza, the South China Morning Post said in a separate report.

Day passes for the May 1 opening, costing 200 yuan (S$40) each, have all been snapped up, according to a notice posted on the official Expo website.

May 1 is also the beginning of the Labour Day ‘golden week’ holiday in China, when millions of vacationing Chinese swamp tourist attractions and recreation facilities.

The notice did not say how many tickets were sold, but organisers have said that they will limit the number entering the Expo park on any single day to 600,000.

While the restriction on visitor numbers will be in place, the authorities will spare no expense in ensuring that the opening ceremony dazzles the crowds – and the world, according to the Post.

Sustainable Shanghai Expo doesn’t need Olympic glitz:

In the case of the Olympic Games, the money from selling the broadcasting rights to TV stations around the world makes up a large portion of its proceeds. That is why the organizers have to make the event, particularly the opening ceremony, as attractive as possible.

The World Expo, however, is financed from ticket sales, so it doesn’t have the same need to make the event appealing to a worldwide TV audience.

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Photos from the EXPO pre-opening:

In Shanghai, Germany is presenting a holistic picture of itself. According to Pavilion architect Lennart Wiechell, the principle of the city in balance is also reflected in the architecture of the German Pavilion. This year’s world exhibition is the first since EXPO 2000 in Hanover where it is not the hosts that provide the pavilion buildings but the larger participating countries themselves that build them. Germany has occupied the maximum available space of 6,000 square metres.

Read more about the German Pavilion: unlike:shanghai

Farbwerte – SchwarzRotGold will be presented at the German Pavilion from May 1st – 21st.

Read more about the Farbwerte exhibition at the EXPO 2010: unlike:shanghai