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Eye 81, the ‘Designers and clients’ issue, featured four designers and their commissions for IBM's ‘Smarter Planet Outcomes’ campaign, orchestrated by agency Ogilvy & Mather.

Creative directors Kjell Eckhorn and Jon Forss of Non-Format produced an illustration to accompany an advert about supply chains in ‘an interconnected world.’

‘We were briefed by Ogilvy to create an illustration that would suggest a supply chain that's smart and flexible enough to adapt to even the most rapid changes in the market,’ says Forss.

‘Our visual interpretation acknowledges that every mighty river can be traced back to a simple stream; a flow of babbling water with little choice but to carve its unique path between innumerable pebbles, rocks and boulders.’

Above: ‘Supply Chain’, Non-Format for IBM.

Other practices involved in the campaign include: Helmo, Noma Bar and Carl DeTorres.

Read all the case studies from ‘The far side’ in Eye 81 (below).

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