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Unrecyclable plastics will turn black when scanned through X-ray. Based on this theory, Mitsubishi Electric has developed a scanning technology which makes it possible to blacken and withdraw only unrecyclable plastics from the pile instantly. It was Mitsubishi Electric’s opportunity to endorse its eco-friendly image by proposing to the consumers the technology. However, just by describing the technology concisely in the ad did not seem to move consumers’ heart. Thus we came up with a revolutionary newspaper ad, ”The TRANSCENDENT TRANSLUCENCY AD” for consumers to ”experience” and intuitively understand the value of the technology. This ad redefined the flimsiness of newspaper material as a fabulous tool to provide a solution to the client’s communication challenge and to the newspaper, a traditional mass media, as well.

“Can you tell which of these plastics are unrecyclable?
Unrecyclable plastics will turn black when scanned through X-ray.
We invented a revolutionary technology that exploits this nature of
unrecyclable plastics.”

Advertising Agency: Dentsu, Tokyo, Japan
Creative Director: Yoji Sakamoto
Art Director: Takayuki Murano
Copywriter: Kosuke Wakasugi
Photographer: Kazunari Koyama
Executive Creative Director: Yoshihisa Suzuki
Producer: Haruhiko Ishikawa
Designer: Kazuya Goto