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Red Stripe remix a visit to the corner shop by rigging it out as a musical surprise

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Date
15 January 2013

Red Stripe has good prior form when it comes to embracing creative advertising campaigns but even by their own high standards their latest effort is really something. By rigging up an east London mini-mart with all manner of musical tricks, they created an interactive installation whereby the shop burst into song (The Specials’ A Message To You Rudy) whenever a customer took a Red Stripe from the shelf. It’s really cleverly done and the reactions of the customers are a joy to behold, plus it’s been documented in a way that means you didn’t have to be there (a common problem with these kind of installations).

Watch the video here.

A corner shop in east London with a green awning and a sign that reads “FOOD & WINE”. A person walks past the storefront, which is overlaid with the text “One weekend in East London, an ordinary looking corner shop was not all it seemed...”.
A row of beer bottles lines a supermarket shelf. Several bottles of Red Stripe are grouped together, alongside other brands including Ball Bay.
Three people smile and laugh together inside a shop. One person wears a red helmet and a black leather jacket.
A row of Red Stripe beer bottles, shot from a low angle. The labels feature the brand’s orange and white colours and a circular “RS” logo.

This post was produced in collaboration with Red Stripe.

A logo for the website “drinkaware.co.uk” in black lowercase typography. The dot above the “i” and the two full stops are bright pink.

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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