TBWA Designs a Bike-Lock Poster From Pieces of Competitors' Broken Locks

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To introduce AXA's Victory bicycle lock, TBWA\Neboko scoured the streets of Amsterdam looking for other companies' broken bike locks, and used pieces of them in this memorable poster and billboard campaign (which even has its own making-of video).

The cracked, bent bits of metal form letters that spell out AXA's message about Victory—that it's "The lock that should've been on your last bike." A sleek, shiny new Victory lock plays a key role in this found-object alphabet, serving as the "O" in the Dutch word for "lock."

"Holland is the country of bikes," explains agency art director Rogier Verbeek.

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