Blood Donation "Hourglass"

The whole of China is in lack of blood donation at present. In Shanghai, blood is needed every 90 seconds, however, the resource of blood is always in shortage. Hence, the challenge from the Blood Center was to increase the awareness about the urgency of blood donation and to get the public to be more active. And Christmas is a season of " giving ", so the Blood Center hopes we could design a Christmas gift to give out to white collars in companies to recruit more donators. To raise awareness of the urgency of blood donation, they created an hourglass with red-colored sand in it, which represents the blood. And they printed the profile of a man and the Red Cross on each side of the timer. So when you turn the hourglass up side down from time to time, you can easily find out the relationship between "you" and "the Red Cross", anytime one of them is running short of blood, the other side can help instantly.

Agency: TBWA Shanghai, China.