The Road Safety-Verse is a world first educational metaverse that has completely transformed how Irish children experience the Road Safety education.
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Using best practice from the education system and combining it with key insights from gaming, the Road Safety-Verse took the RSA’s presence in Irish schools from the analogue to the digital. This means they now reach more children, more often, ultimately providing a more effective and more immersive education on the importance of safer practices on Irish roads.
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It launched in September 2022, and was soon after adopted as part of the Irish National School Curriculum, giving access to nearly 1 million students from a total national population of 4.9 million.

WINNER - The Lovies 2022 - People's Choice Award
BRONZE - The Lovies 2022 - Weird and Experimental
SHORTLIST - The One Show 2023 - Interactive, Online & Mobile
FINALIST - The Webbies 2023 - Metaverse, Immersive & Virtual: Public Service
SILVER - ICAD 2023 - User Experience for Advertising
SILVER - ICAD 2023 - Creative Innovation
BRONZE - ICAD 2023 - Digitial Experiene
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Executive Creative Director - Shane O'Brien
Creative Director - Robert Boyle
Art Director - Vini Bustamante
Art Director - Fionan Healy
Copywriter - Craig Babikian
Digital Producer - Barry O'Sullivan
Production Company - Solar Flare

At the height of the COVID19 Pandemic, despite reduced traffic, there was an increase in fatalities on Irish roads. These were needless and preventable deaths, that added to the extraordinary pressure our frontline services are already facing. So this campaign was a direct appeal from the brave men and women of the emergency services who have experienced first-hand the tragic consequences of collisions on our roads. We followed firefighters and paramedics from the Dublin Fire Brigade and members of An Garda Síochána, as they went about their difficult jobs on a real night shift. They tell their stories in their own words, urging us to help them by observing better road behaviour. Only together can we save lives on our roads. The campaign is still shown every winter, and whenever it is aired there is a measurable reduction in collisions on the roads.
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Executive Creative Creative Director / Copywriter - Shane O'Brien
Creative Director / Art Director - Robert Boyle
Agency Producer - Andrew Counihan
Director - Ken Wardrop for Antidote.

Research showed us that pedestrians over the age of 65 are overrepresented in road collisions. However, neither older pedestrians nor drivers are aware that older pedestrians are at increased risk on the roads. So with this campaign we needed to target both of those groups, but do so in a way that was non-judgemental and did not victimise either of them. Thus the challenge was striking a balance between highlighting the vulnerability of older pedestrians on the roads, while at the same time not wanting to discourage older people from getting out walking. We found that balance with a cool grandma strutting her stuff to a Bo Diddly track.
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Executive Creative Director / Copywriter - Shane O'Brien
Creative Director / Art Director - Robert Boyle
Agency Producer - Andrew Counihan
Director - Henry Mason for Antidote

SEATBELT RIBBON

A simple, yet powerful press and display campaign to draw attention to the shocking fact that 1 in 4 drivers and passengers killed on Irish roads in 2020 were not wearing a seatbelt. We wanted to remind people to wear their seatbelt in a simple and impactful way, but also to be respectful to those who have lost their lives on the road. To do this we borrowed the iconography of cancer and AIDS awareness ribbons as shorthand for the seriousness of the problem while using the seatbelt material for an instant 'get'. The copy urges us to 'Never Forget' both to wear a seatbelt and those who have lost their lives on the road.
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BRONZE - Shark Awards 2021 - Print / OOH: Public Awareness & Political Party

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Executive Creative Creative Director / Copywriter - Shane O'Brien
Creative Director / Art Director - Robert Boyle