Flying Notebooks Chase Students Around in This Drone-Packed Ad for a Scanning App

Oxford's high-tech metaphor

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What's an appropriate visual metaphor for an app that lets you scan handwritten notes to your smartphone? If you're U.K. stationery brand Oxford, it's a drone that follows you everywhere, lugging your paper notebooks.

In this new video from gyro Paris, flying reams of study materials distract, haunt and taunt a bunch of stylish teens. All that to promote Oxford's SOS Notes app, which lets users scan Oxford notebooks and save them to various devices as pdf files.

Setting aside whether that's a task that really needs its own app, it's hard not to wonder if Oxford should really sell it as an oppressive, inescapable nuisance.

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