Passion Pictures director Dan Sumich helmed this new PSA for Action for Children, “a source for early learning, parent resources, school readiness, and professional development for the childcare workforce.”

The Dutch seaside city of Scheveningen recently renovated their coastal infrastructure and to spruce up the area they installed a number of whimsical sculptures crafted by New Yorker Tom Otterness. To promote the newly unveiled additions, the city also called upon Dutch studio DPI Animation House to bring it all to life.

The Munich-based graphic design and animation studio Musclebeaver produced this PSA for Green City Energy. Using angular and often isometric designs, the team illustrates what your money does when you’re not looking. It’s aptly titled How Your Money Works.

PantoGraph, the stop-motion studio in Japan behind that cool Google, toy-block animation, has produced a few PSAs for the Japanese Satellite Broadcasting Association. Here’s two:

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Drinking and Driving

Check out this stop-motion recycling PSA that recasts a few familiar characters from Star Wars. The PET Recycling spot was produced by Swamp-Trickfilmstudios, an animation studio based in Lucerne, Switzerland. It’s titled PET Vader vs Luke Sneaker, and the premise is that sneakers are made from (or fathered by) recylced plastic bottles.

This multi-chapter campaign for the Sabritas Foundation was produced at Cluster Studio in Mexico. Sabritas is a non-profit that supports children by building and repairing schools and assisting them in getting to class. BBDO Mexico initiated the project. Here is chapter 1 of Destiny Is Not Written:

This nasty H1N1 flu seems to be on everyone’s minds this year, including the team at the animation boutique Sweetworld. They created this PSA to help education Scottish citizens about the flu, and the “free flu jab.”