So many sur­faces in Welling­ton are crammed with posters try­ing to sell us some­thing, so we thought it might be nice to look at some of the adver­tis­ing that actu­al­ly looks good. This week, our favourite piece of adver­tis­ing are these posters from Welling­ton Zoo.

Wellington Zoo postersThese absolute­ly gor­geous ani­mals (there’s a red pan­da in the series too) are by Argen­tin­ian illus­tra­tor Chris­t­ian Mon­tene­gro and the cam­paign was put togeth­er by Saatchi & Saatchi. Hur­ray for such a colour­ful and play­ful design! In fact, the zoo tells us that the posters are so pop­u­lar that they’re actu­al­ly giv­ing them away to vis­i­tors, so now would be a real­ly good time to vis­it, if our posts about close encoun­ters had­n’t already con­vinced you (EDIT: they say on Face­book “From now until the end of the hol­i­days (or when we run out, whichev­er comes first!) we are giv­ing away A2 ver­sions of these posters to Zoo vis­i­tors so make sure you pop in to see us soon” — just to clar­i­fy).

Okay, with every best there has to be a worst, and I think this offer­ing to cruise ship pas­sen­gers to real­ly expe­ri­ence some Welling­ton cul­ture speaks for itself: McDonalds, how exotic!

What signs/campaigns have you seen around that you love or hate? Let us know — leave us pic­tures or links in the com­ments.