Monday is here OMBLES, and we want to see the you have fun with this one with plenty of bollardy great puns and headlines. Some might even get printed on a tee!
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters to advertise #Bollards and @WorldBollard in all sorts of creative ways.
Be as creative as you like…and you can enter as many times as you wish
Just make sure you tweet to @OneMinuteBriefs and @WorldBollard with the hashtag #Bollards
Don’t forget to include your Twitter handle in the corner of your submissions!
Prizes:
WINNER: World Bollard Association Merch & Your very own bollard!!
Who are the World Bollard Association?
Ask the World Bollard Association, on Twitter as @WorldBollard since February 2018, what they’re up to, and they’ll remind you that they have half a billion bollards to look after. Bollards, for the uninitiated, are the posts and other solid objects used to control the movement of cars in public space. The term originated in the 1840s to describe the posts used to moor ships along docks and has since come to describe a panoply of practical objects sticking out of streets and sidewalks worldwide.
Once you start looking for them, you’ll see them everywhere, and they can be an unexpected source of delight. A surprising amount of creativity goes into bollard design: Recently the World Bollard Association has highlighted pencil-shaped bollards with an added flourish of street art, the rare “ice cream topped torpedo bollard,” and Playmobile bollards.
In the eyes of the WBA, which has a cheeky sense of humor and no other obvious web presence aside from its Twitter account, “All bollards are exceptional.” Late last month, the organization announced a new “Win a Bollard” contest, with a “Monoscape Spherical 500 Grey Concrete Bollard worth a massive £451.29” as the prize.
Social links:
Twitter: twitter.com/worldbollard (you can find more examples of different bollards here too!)
