Friday, 8 February 2008

Avoid Eco-clichés!

Before Christmas I mentioned  that I hated the 'hands cupping a sapling' image used by so many green businesses. Then I admitted our corporate Christmas cards featured a polar bear rolling in the snow (v. cute - drop me a line and I'll send you one next year). Well, Getty Images has done some research that suggests these eco-clichés are a turn off to the average punter.

This is a perennial problem for promoting green businesses - what images manage to use to communicate their ethos and values without the sappiness of the clichés. For the Terra Infirma masthead, we went for a picture of Kalundborg, the home of industrial symbiosis because a. we work with industry, b. Kalundborg is an exemplar of the type of solution we present to clients (waste is a resource), and c. we had a picture of Kalundborg. Of course few people recognise the picture and its significance and one reader described it as 'dark satanic mills'. Ho hum. I'll keep looking.

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Comments:
OMG only two weeks ago I tried to dissuade a client from making me use the 'hands cupping mud and small plant' image on grounds that it is EVERYWHERE.

They wouldn't listen unfortunately... :)

They aren't an eco business, but all the same I'd like to ban the use of this photo for any business. lol.

Amanda
 
ooops.... guess I fell into the trap.

http://www.i-buildings.co.uk/

D'oh

In our defense yer honner we were trying to portray that we were a young growing business as well so thats.... You're not beleiving me are you?

Yeah we jumped on the green band wagon
 
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