Kastner reveals Moon ad for Fischer space pen
Ad agency Kastner & Partners has created a campaign for the Fischer AG-7 Space Pen to coincide with this week’s 40th anniversary of the first Apollo Moon landing.
The pen, which uses a pressurised cartridge of ink to work in weightless environments, was used in all of the Apollo missions.
Darryn Devlin, Creative Partner at Kastner & Partners, said: “The Fischer Space Pens are just a remarkable engineering feat, yet look so damn cool. To work on such an icon of modernity is a great pleasure.”
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Lunatics (geddit?)
My zero gravity writing implement involves wood and graphite.
Write on AdGrunt.
According to Jon Steel (‘Truth, Lies and Advertising’ p.105) NASA embarked on an expensive R&D program and some millions of dollars later created the ‘astronaut pen.’
Meanwhile, the Soviet space agency had solved its own pens-not-workin-at-zero-gravity problem. They used pencils.
When I first saw this it certainly grabbed my attention, but it took a while to get to the pen and I still didn’t get all the features.
Perhaps a bit obscure for the average scribbler? Although I really like the back story to the whole thing. I might have been tempted to go a bit more direct if they could. Even a license deal with NASA?
I will be immediately buying one.
Nice idea, but if the pen “looks so damn cool” why didn’t you show a bit more of it? And where does this ad appear. Press , mags, outdoor?