THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION - IMMORTAL POPPY

CLIENT
The Royal Canadian Legion - https://legion.ca/

AGENCY
Wunderman Thompson - https://www.wundermanthompson.com/

https://www.immortalpoppy.com/

The Royal Canadian Legion has been selling lapel pin poppies as an act of Remembrance and part of a fundraising campaign in support of Canadian veterans and their families since 1921.

On this the 100th anniversary of the poppy, we needed to mark the occasion in a fitting tribute to this Canadian icon.

We created a series of 100 purchasable NFTs called “The Immortal Poppy” which are 3D replicas of real poppies picked from the iconic “Flanders Fields” in Belgium – the birthplace of this enduring icon. Each NFT poppy has the names of all 118k fallen Canadian soldiers digitally engraved on its petals as well as a virtual cenotaph.

The Immortal Poppy NFTs generated 30k in sales during the campaign period. And was featured on Bloomberg BNN, as well as National news outlets such as CTV, Financial Times, Toronto Star and Yahoo Finance, generating millions of earned media impressions for the campaign. But more importantly, we forever enshrined the names of every fallen soldier so future generations will never forget them.

AWARDS:

2022 MARKETING AWARDS, (Art Direction) GOLD, (Art Direction) BEST OF SHOW, (Online) BRONZE, (Direct) MERIT
- 2022 DESIGN AWARDS (Craft Motion/Animation) WINNER - 2022 SHOPPER INNOVATION AND ACTIVATION AWARDS (Tech breakthrough) BRONZE - 2022 CLIO AWARDS (E-commerce) SHORTLIST - 2022 WEBBY AWARDS (Websites and Mobile Sites) NOMINEE - 2022 MARKETING AWARDS (Public Service) NOMINEE - 2022 MARKETING AWARDS (Craft/Art Direction) NOMINEE - 2022 D&AD AWARDS (E-Commerce) SHORTLIST - 2022 ONE SHOW AWARDS (Creative Effectiveness: Non-Profit / Charity) SHORTLIST - 2022 CLIO AWARDS (Digital / Mobile) SHORTLIST - 2022 COMMUNICAION ARTS AWARDS (Motion Graphics Design) FINALIST