Whether cult or garbage, loved or frowned upon, it divides minds, polarizes and reflects our consumer behaviour. It reinforces status and identity, disrupts ecology, is collected lovingly or with environmental awareness, tells cultural history and is a current theme in art and design: the exhibition "Oh plastic bag!" opened at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur on Saturday, June 2. For the first time in this interdisciplinary form, the exhibition shows over thirty international positions from contemporary art and design and at the same time tells selected cultural-historical, aesthetic and political plastic bag stories with collections from Germany and Switzerland. It is curated by Ida-Marie Corell and Susanna Kumschick.
 

Members would now have one week to cast their vote. This was announced by Facebook on Friday. The vote comes after more than 7,000 users submitted comments on plans published in mid-May. For the vote to be binding, however, at least 30 percent of all active registered users must participate in the vote - according to recent Facebook membership figures, that would be 270 million people. Facebook is using a special app for the vote. Voting will continue until June 8 at 6 p.m. Central European Summer Time.
 
Facebook's proposed changes, in addition to numerous clarifications and clarifications, include that some information could be retained longer than it is now. "We will retain data for as long as necessary to provide services to users and others," Facebook wrote. In its new proposals, Facebook has already partially addressed user comments, communications chief Elliot Schrage wrote in a blog post. In it, he also held out the prospect of further developing users' ability to help shape the rules. Facebook has repeatedly come into conflict with data protectionists and politicians over its handling of user information. (sda)

On Friday, 20,000 people flocked to the Beizlifest, and a further 45,000 people took part in this year's Radio Argovia birthday party on Saturday, according to the station. The festival was already sold out by 9 p.m. on Saturday evening. Only visitors who had already bought a ticket for 10 francs in advance were allowed to enter the grounds, Argovia editor-in-chief Jürgen Sahli told the news agency SDA on Sunday night.

At the actual "Argovia-Fäst" on Saturday evening, well-known groups performed, such as rappers Bligg and Stress, the Basel Brit-pop band Lovebuggs, the Biel pop-rock band Pegasus, singer/songwriter Bastian Baker from Lausanne and British pop and reggae musician Marlon Roudette. The festival officially came to an end at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. According to the Aargau cantonal police, there were several fights and assaults between drunks. However, there were no major incidents, they said.
 

To this end, the agency has developed a comic, composed an educational song and animated a film. A microsite with an online competition provides an additional platform for children. The comic will be available from May 28 in the children's magazines JUNIOR and Maky, among others. It will also be distributed by the Swiss Cancer League. The song is available on Funny-sunny.ch to hear.

Responsible at Nivea, Beiersdorf: Sarah Larwood (Marketing Manager), Regina Achermann (Brand Manager). Responsible at Draftfcb/Lowe Group: Dennis Lück (Executive Creative Director), Cinthia Stettler (AD), Laureen Zanotti (Text), Daniel Tschanz (CD Online), Marie-Theres Ott (Client Service Director), Yvonne Friedli (Account Director), Linda Frunz (Account Executive).
Marco Zizzi (illustration, animation), GREAT GARBO (music).

The candidate proposed by the regional board, Franco Tramèr, failed. He only received 35 votes. Oscar Knapp was elected with 56 votes at the SRG.R General Assembly in Scuol on Saturday, as reported by SRG.R according to SDA.

Oscar Knapp is an economist and has represented Switzerland as an ambassador in various countries, most recently in Austria and Brazil. Today he is a member of the Directorate of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters SIF. As Chairman of the Regional Company, he will also be a member of the Board of Directors of SRG.
 
SRG.R Price
SRG.R already awarded the SRG.R Prize on Friday. This goes to the Graubünden
Extreme sportsman Ernst Bromeis. Bromeis wanted to swim the Rhine from its source to its mouth in Rotterdam at the beginning of May, but had to give up two weeks after starting. Bromeis made it as far as Breisach in southern Baden, but had already covered several sections by kayak beforehand. The plan to swim across the Rhine was part of an advertising campaign by Switzerland Tourism.
 

Committed young researchers and their goals in science are then also at the center of the full-page portraits photographed by Stefan Walter for this annual report. Within the framework of the corporate design introduced in 2010, the figures and events of the university year 2011 were implemented and the reading guidance throughout the report was further optimized. 
 
Responsible at the University of Zurich: Carole Siegfried (Finance and Controlling, University of Zurich). Responsible at Evoq: Christian Sutter (consulting), Sofia Bauer (design). Photography: Stefan Walter. Print: Print Media Corporation.

"We heard inspiring presentations and had controversial discussions," said Forum President Andreas Binder. Highlights were the appearances by Jill Abramson, editor-in-chief of the New York Times, and Joschka Fischer, former German foreign minister. Abramson promoted the paywall, saying it was the only way to finance quality journalism online. Joschka Fischer warned of the dramatic consequences of Greece leaving the euro: politicians and the media had not yet recognized the seriousness of the situation. Fischer pleaded for a political union and a fiscal union, and he drew parallels with the USA, where individual states would have gone bankrupt in the 18th century if the federal government had not been founded to guarantee the solvency of the member states.

Poor quality of online media
In his speech at the Swiss Media Forum, Fischer warned politicians not to become dependent on the media like Christian Wulff. "If you ride up in the elevator with the Bild newspaper, you'll ride back down in the elevator with it," he said. He finds party journalism boring and considers the American Fox News channel, for example, to be a "propaganda channel". Politicians often overestimate the influence of the media, he said. "The media is important, but you can also win election campaigns against the majority of the media, as the red-green party in Germany proved in 2002." Fischer criticized the new media and social media. "I question whether politicians really need to be active on social media. It doesn't make them any better." The quality of journalism in the printed press is still significantly higher than on the Internet. "Take a look at the reader comments on online portals. People often just empty their stomachs." Fischer longs for the good old readers' letters page, which is managed by an editorial team. "Today, they only filter out what is unlawful."

The journalist as street musician
Fischer often feels sorry for journalists: "It used to be a respectable profession. Today, the journalist reminds me of a musician at the fair who plays the accordion and has to play the monkey at the same time." Fischer went on to say that it was devastating how the foreign editorial offices had been thinned out. Quality is suffering. "If there is a journalistic race to the bottom, then the quality of political debate and ultimately democracy will also suffer." This can already be seen in the Bundestag. There is no young politician in any party who primarily distinguishes themselves through their foreign policy expertise.
 

Martin Samsel moved from Jung von Matt/Limmat to Scholz & Friends Zurich on January 1, 2012. The communications graduate held management positions there for more than eight years, becoming a member of the Executive Board in January 2009. He was responsible for the management of clients such as Swisscom, Bank Julius Bär and Vögele Shoes. Prior to this, Samsel worked for McCann-Erickson in Switzerland from 1999 to 2003. At the beginning of his career, he gained several years of international key account experience at Publicis Munich and Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt.

Wolfgang Steinhaus has managed Scholz & Friends Switzerland since October 2009. Under his leadership, clients such as Credit Suisse, Emmi, Oakley, Sunrise and Opel have been acquired, the agency said in a statement. Steinhaus has been with Scholz & Friends since 2003 and headed Scholz & Friends Hamburg for five years before moving to Switzerland.

Scholz & Friends Switzerland was founded in 2003 and is part of the international Scholz & Friends Group. The agency currently has 65 employees.
 

The Ginsana capsules, composed of extracts of gingko leaves and ginseng roots, are said to improve memory performance. An effect that will make the delinquent forget the excuse of the memory gap and refute the phrase "I can't remember for the life of me". Under this slogan, Ammarkt turns Gincosan into a hero. The product placement is intended to raise awareness and strengthen familiarity.

Responsible at Ginsana: Elisa Ranieri (Marketing & Communication Manager), Sabrina Consonni (Marketing & Communication). Responsible at Ars Vitae Switzerland:  Stefano Airoldi (Marketing and Sales). Responsible at Ammarkt: Marcel Odermatt, Lucia Burtscher, Sandra Sigrist (Consulting), Ralf Kostgeld (CD), Jan Walser (AD), Markus Tränkle (Text), Jerry Zimmerli (Graphics). Responsible at Pumpkin Film: Sonja Brand (Producer). Responsible at Snap Film: Michael Kindermann (producer), Götz Hudelmaier (director), Marco Barberi (camera), Manuela Rüegg (production assistant), Hastings Zürich (sound).

In addition to advertising the job portals on all target group-relevant Swiss websites, Plan.Net also realizes display campaigns for Jobup AG - including Jobwinner.ch and Alpha.ch. Business was also further expanded with existing client Bosch/Siemens Hausgeräte, which Plan.Net Suisse has been supporting since last year: Following various realized display campaigns and the further development of the corporate websites siemens-home.ch and bosch-home.ch as well as the SEO support of Siemens-home.ch, the SEO budget for the Bosch-home.ch website is now also being added with immediate effect.

Plan.Net Suisse is also on course for growth in terms of personnel: a total of 20 employees currently work at the Zurich office, the agency said in a press release. Marina Stierli has been appointed Head of Consulting and is responsible for the strategic management of all online accounts. She previously worked as Manager Online Communications & Brand Management at telecommunications provider Sunrise and as a consultant at Republica and Futurecom. Her counterpart as Head of Creation has been Matze Lenz since mid-March 2012. The trained industrial designer previously worked at Blue Spirit, Publicis Modem and Ringier. He also works as a VJ and street artist - including for Laax Riders Palace - and has already been nominated for various awards, including the German Design Award, DDC, the Brand New Award and the Nike Play Award.
 

This also makes the publications very interesting for advertisers. This is because the regional free newspapers are conveniently delivered to readers' homes past the stop-advertising sticker, SFLB said in a press release on the campaign.

The subjects can now be seen as banners and advertisements in the trade press, in the regional free newspapers and on Gratiszeitungen.ch.

Responsible at the Association of Swiss Free Newspapers VSGZ/ASEG: Dani Sigel (President), Hannes Zaugg (Head of Office). Responsible at SFLB: Oli Kreienbühl, Marco Donada (Art Direction), Patrick Suter (Text), Peter Brönnimann (ECD), Aline Litchenhaus (Consulting), Erasmo Palomba (Art Buying), Benjamin Schwager (Image Editing). Photo: Manuel Archain. Retouch: Jimena Salvatierra. Packshot: Laurent Schmid.
 

The agency in Bern directs its services to advertisers, creative agencies as well as publishers and media marketers. With Mediafactor, he is picking up where he left off at Media Plus, Urs Rueb said in a statement. Mediafactor stands for the connecting factor of media and creation to the consumer. The personal consulting includes media strategy, planning and buying, competition analyses and media audits, media training, communication impact measurements as well as publishing media marketing.