IRC Turns Arcade Toy Into Unlikely Saviour of the War-Torn

darfur_irc.jpg

The International Rescue Committee, which tries its best to incorporate confused war-torn refugees in melting-pot communities with hand-me-down dishes, taps Draft FCB out of NY to put together a print campaign that walks the gossamer line between playful and dead-serious.

The result? A country at war in a prize snatching machine. If we’d known as kids that those games would prep us for refugee relief, we would probably, well, freak out – mainly because we’d worry that we too were living inside a prize snatching machine without knowing it. (Are we?)

See Afghanistan. Nice work here.

Picture of Steve Hall

Steve Hall

RECENT ARTICLES

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

I have a perfectly good smartphone with a notes app I know how to use, but every Sunday I still write my weekly tasks on a piece of paper that sits on my kitchen counter — because at 65, I’ve learned that seeing something in my own handwriting makes me accountable to myself in a way a screen notification never could

I have a perfectly good smartphone with a notes app I know how to use, but every Sunday I still write my weekly tasks on a piece of paper that sits on my kitchen counter — because at 65, I’ve learned that seeing something in my own handwriting makes me accountable to myself in a way a screen notification never could

Global English Editing

Research suggests the retirees who report the highest life satisfaction aren’t the ones who finally relax — they’re the ones who found a purpose that exists independent of achievement, recognition, or being needed

Research suggests the retirees who report the highest life satisfaction aren’t the ones who finally relax — they’re the ones who found a purpose that exists independent of achievement, recognition, or being needed

Global English Editing

Psychologists explain that realizing you settled when you weren’t truly in love doesn’t mean your marriage is a failure — it means you chose stability over intensity, and the grief you feel isn’t about the choice itself but about finally admitting you wanted both and believed you could only have one

Psychologists explain that realizing you settled when you weren’t truly in love doesn’t mean your marriage is a failure — it means you chose stability over intensity, and the grief you feel isn’t about the choice itself but about finally admitting you wanted both and believed you could only have one

Global English Editing

Psychology says the reason most people never turn their lives around isn’t fear of failure – it’s that they’ve become so skilled at rationalizing their unhappiness that changing would mean admitting they’ve been lying to themselves for decades about being fine

Psychology says the reason most people never turn their lives around isn’t fear of failure – it’s that they’ve become so skilled at rationalizing their unhappiness that changing would mean admitting they’ve been lying to themselves for decades about being fine

Global English Editing

Behavioral scientists found that people who choose authenticity over likability don’t lose friends — they lose audiences, and the difference between those two things is everything

Behavioral scientists found that people who choose authenticity over likability don’t lose friends — they lose audiences, and the difference between those two things is everything

Global English Editing

Research suggests women who have no close friends aren’t socially inept — they’re often the ones who spent decades being so emotionally self-sufficient that they never learned how to need people in a way that builds intimacy

Research suggests women who have no close friends aren’t socially inept — they’re often the ones who spent decades being so emotionally self-sufficient that they never learned how to need people in a way that builds intimacy

Global English Editing