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Western Union: Pound / Rupee

Western Union: Pound / Rupee
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Advertising Agency: Grant McCann Erickson, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive Creative Director: Russell Miranda
Art Directors: Chandu Rajapreyar, Russell Miranda
Copywriter: Dilshard Ahmed
Illustrator: John Langdon
Additional credits: John Langdon, Laila Gunasekara Martenstyn, Douglas Paul, Eranga Tennekoon, Nisal Attanayake, Kum Kum Fernando, Aman Ashraff, Ameen Gani, Peter Solomon, Monica Weerasinghe, Asirini Punchihewa
Published: December 2007

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ska's picture 59 pencils
ska | Mon, 2008-01-07 01:44

Nice.

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aman.ashraff's picture 6 pencils
aman.ashraff | Mon, 2008-01-07 01:51

Clever idea. Hats off to the illustrator!

gill sans's picture 10 pencils
gill sans | Mon, 2008-01-07 02:05

very cool

burnhard's picture 395 pencils
burnhard | Mon, 2008-01-07 02:07

why are there so many votes?

gill sans's picture 10 pencils
gill sans | Mon, 2008-01-07 02:17

because it's monday and not sunday.

0nurb's picture 631 pencils
0nurb | Mon, 2008-01-07 05:27

All the employees from their agency are voting here :o

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LeeHarvey's picture 1798 pencils
LeeHarvey | Mon, 2008-01-07 03:17

Sorry but this is the only one I can read without the help of the title above (Western Union:pound/rupee). And then it's a good idea...

wanderer's picture 6 pencils
wanderer | Mon, 2008-01-07 04:45

agree, this is the best of the three. But think it is quite a cool idea nevertheless.Smart work.

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JohnsonPaul's picture 164 pencils
JohnsonPaul | Mon, 2008-01-07 04:56

very smart

skullforce's picture 68 pencils
skullforce | Mon, 2008-01-07 10:12

John Langdon is probably the world's only professional ambigram illustrator. he did the ambigrams for the da vinci code movie

jibberish's picture 6 pencils
jibberish | Mon, 2008-01-07 13:54

this ad comes out best in the whole campaign...

fly catcher's picture 6 pencils
fly catcher | Mon, 2008-01-07 14:13

i agree with jibberish. clearer.great campaign overall

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Rene Fractal's picture 1430 pencils
Rene Fractal | Mon, 2008-01-07 23:58

Good work men, and I can imagine the client really happy about this solution. Well done!

cyrusmuller's picture 12 pencils
cyrusmuller | Tue, 2008-01-08 05:10

Great work guys... I see you source John to do the ambigrams... he is the best.

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daveconrey's picture 36 pencils
daveconrey | Tue, 2008-01-08 18:31

incredibly effective. I love anagrams.

rohitjhansiwale's picture 4 pencils
rohitjhansiwale | Wed, 2008-01-09 04:03

Cool creativity

Rohit

panasit's picture 687 pencils
panasit | Wed, 2008-01-09 13:36

Da Vinci Code.

-Tung
--good idea is enemy of great idea

lostinla's picture 40 pencils
lostinla | Mon, 2008-01-14 17:51

This is by far not John Langdon's best work, but I still like it - sort of…

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dauntless's picture 60 pencils
dauntless | Tue, 2008-01-22 06:27

leaving aside the fact that lotsa users from sri lankan origin have praised this campaign...
The executional idea that these ads are using has been done to death...
Nevertheless it's a pretty decent campaign...
Is it a strong "IDEA" in the current context of creativity? I really don't think so...
It's one of those "nice" ads
just my 2 cents

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