Mercedes-Benz: Mercedes-Benz

Credits & Description:

Category: Automotive
Media: Digital
Brand: Mercedes-Benz
Agency: Moma
Geo: Brazil
Advertising Agency: MoMA Propaganda, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio
Art Director: Guilherme Martins
Copywriter: Rafael de Miranda
Art Director: Bruno Campanelli
Production: PBA Cinema
Director: Santi Dulce
Photographer: Nixon Freire
Published: July 2018
Synopsis:
In Brazil, all vehicles leave the assembly line stamped with a large identification number, and our idea was to stop putting numbers on the busses and instead give names to these vehicles. Specifically, the names of people who were injured or killed in attacks of this nature.
Every year, hundreds of buses are targets of arson in Brazil. The purpose of such vandalism is to draw awareness and attention to a protest or grievance. However, such a practice results in serious consequences for innocent people who have nothing to do with the issue. The names and stories of drivers and passengers who are hurt or even killed in such incidents are often forgotten by society and they end up becoming just a statistic or number. For example, take the case of bus driver Jefferson Alves da Silva, who suffered burns to part of his body as he heroically saved a handicapper passenger from flames.