Andy Powell // Creative Director
Strategising, art-directing, creative-directing writer of advertising, direct mail, digital, content and other zeitgeisty buzzwords.
Client: Dogs Trust
Project: Change the tale
Media: OOH, press, radio
Scope: Copywriting, creative direction
During the last recession, 40,000 dogs were abandoned. Dogs Trust wanted to highlight the fact that as the UK moved out of lockdown, 2021 could see a new wave of unwanted dogs abandoned out on the streets.
The challenge here was to describe a situation that hadn't actually happened yet. And make a link to Covid, while making the message clear that this was a dog crisis about to hit hard.
The solution was to add a simple letter – and an adorable lurcher called Duffy – to the iconic government warning messages that had become ubiquitous during 2020. Stay alert became stray alert.
