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clever codes {in black & white}

A fantastic print campaign for Expedia by Ogilvy & Mather that uses airport IATA codes to form clever travel-related phrases. There are over 9,000 three-letter IATA codes for airports around the world so I can imagine it was quite the task to sort through them and find witty copy. For example, WSH EWE WRE ERE (or Brookhaven, Ewer Indonesia, Whangarei, Erave) and SUN SEA SND SEX (or Sun Valley, Seattle, Seno, Sembach). I love the pops of colour and stamps in the corner providing a bit more context to the travel code wish. Oy, so simple and brilliant. There is plenty of fun to be found in the luggage carousel…

(photographs via/spotted on creative review)  

POSTED ON February 6, 2013

LABELS: advertisement, artists & designers, black, graphic design, in black & white, paper, print & ink, typography, white   6 Comments   Tweet This

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4 comments

Elizabeth
February 7, 2013 at 9:10 am


These are too funny! How clever, what a great campaign.

Elizabeth of The Corner Apartment

marshmallow
February 7, 2013 at 12:47 pm


Clever…

Ryan Rosado
February 19, 2013 at 7:49 am


I quite enjoy these. I feel like overseas countries have more witty and dynamic campaigns than the States. I rarely see things like this in my neck of the woods in DC.

Clare
February 21, 2013 at 4:50 pm


These definitely induce wanderlust…

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