2026 PRINT/OUTDOOR CRAFT - IRELAND
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Mole Maps - The Marie Keating Foundation
Skin Cancer

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Title: Mole Maps
Brand: The Marie Keating Foundation
Product: Skin Cancer
Entrant Company: Boys + Girls Ireland
Agency: Boys + Girls
Client: The Marie Keating Foundation
Creative Director: Dean Ryan / Jake O'Driscoll
Copywriter: Jack Walsh
Art Director: Jake O'Driscoll / Dean Ryan
Yes: Yes. AI was used, but only during early concept development and previsualisation. We used it to help translate initial scamps into photorealistic mock-ups, allowing the client to understand how county-shaped moles could appear on real skin. AI also helped us explore early county silhouettes, body placements, scale, tone and contour. These were development assets only.
The final campaign imagery was crafted manually through art direction and detailed retouching. Each mole was built using real skin cancer mole reference imagery, then integrated into the skin to feel medically believable and photographically real.
So, in short: AI helped us visualise the idea early. The final work was crafted by our designers.
Account Director: Caroline Keogh
Account Manager: Sára Benkö
Image Manipulation: Maxi McDonnell
Photographer: Matthieu Chardon
Other: Maxi McDonnell
Other: Rory Hamilton
Other: Tara Finnegan
Other: Colm Coonagh
Other: Ruby Valdez
Other: Derek Doyle
Other: Ben White
Other: Leah Byrne
Other: Eamon Corcoran
Other: Evgenia Gavrilovich
Other: James Kanu
Other: Will Farrell
Notes: Irish people are sun-smart abroad, but sun-blind at home.

Even though Ireland has one of the highest incidence rates of skin cancer globally, many people here still associate sun danger with hot foreign holidays, not grey Irish skies. We put on suncream in Spain, Greece or Dubai, then forget that UV still damages skin in Sligo, Galway or Dublin. Even though, as global healthcare data proves, you're more likely to get skin cancer in Ireland than you are when you are abroad.

So Marie Keating Foundation, an Irish cancer charity, brought the danger closer to home.

Mole Maps turned all 32 counties of Ireland (26 of ROI submitted for Irish jury category) into suspicious moles on skin, then geo-targeted each execution to its own county. Dublin saw Dublin. Cork saw Cork. Galway saw Galway.

Each ad compared the risk at home to the sunny places Irish people already protect themselves in, reminding people that the sun at home burns too.

The campaign ran across OOH, print, radio and social.
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