Showing posts with label Gandhi Bookstores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi Bookstores. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Rewarded by reading

Here is a print ad in Mexico for Gandhi Bookstores:

The newspaper page was filled with lines from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and hidden within the novel excerpt is a block of text that reads:

"You've just demonstrated that you like to read, that's why we will reward you with one book each month for the rest of your life.  Be the first one to show this ad in Miguel Angel de Quevedo's Gandhi Bookstore to claim your prize -- there will be just one winner.  Keep reading. 

Not only receiving a lifetime of reading, this guy got a nifty shirt to prove it.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A radio ad you can read

Here's a radio ad created for Gandhi Bookstores from Mexico City that you can actually read:


In congested Mexico City, people spend hours sitting in traffic.  Using RDS systems that is used to identify stations and artist and tracks played, they transmitted a short message on commuters car radios.

Announcer:  If you are stuck in traffic look at your stereo's screen.  
Screen:  This advert promotes reading.  That's why you are reading it.  

Announcer:  Gandhi Bookstores.  Keep reading.