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At scale · campaign giveaway · Malaysia
50,000 kits, nobody to explain.
PETRONAS gave these plantable kits away at service stations across Malaysia in 2021. Nobody would be there to explain them, so the kit had to explain itself.
- Client
- PETRONAS
- Year
- 2021
- Market
- Malaysia
- Handover
- Free giveaway at service stations
- In each kit
- Plantable pen and pencils in a kraft tube, seed-paper notepad, cotton drawstring bag
- Finish
- The brand's teal livery
The problem.
A giveaway at a fuel station gets a few seconds of attention. Most of it ends up in a glovebox. The campaign wanted something people would actually use, then plant, then remember.
The catch was scale and distance. Fifty thousand people, in another country, with no one from the brand or from bioQ standing next to them. Every instruction had to be on the pack itself.
Every pencil names its own seed.
What was in the kit.
Each pencil named its own seed, marigold or spinach, and the tube carried a four-step planting guide. The bag kept the kit together on the drive home.


Film
A pen that ends in a pot.
Write with it until it's short, then plant the end. The seed capsule does the rest.
A film of a LuxeInk plantable pen from the collection, not of this campaign.
What scale takes
Fifty thousand of anything.
- Artwork, once. One approved design, printed across tubes, notepads and bags so every kit matches.
- Seeds that travel. Seed capsules sealed into each pencil so they reach the far end of the supply chain ready to grow.
- Shipping abroad. Plantable pieces carry seeds, so we check what each country allows before we quote. What ships where
Build the same kit.
Every piece in it is in the collection today, ready for your artwork.
More work, made for clients.
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Brief something like this.
How many, by when, the budget per gift. We reply on WhatsApp within a day, with a shortlist and rates before GST.



