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Barcos & Rodados

Year Archive · offline

Client Barcos & Rodados S.A. — Paraguayan fuel distributor (Asunción)

Role UI/UX design · Development

Stack Flash / ActionScript Galería paginada Video embebido Fotografía y fotomontaje

A service station photographed at eye level, with two cars at the pumps. The cars change and always come in pairs that answer each other —classic and modern, new and old— and each pair names a Reason to come. The campaign is called Buenas Razones, and the initials are the brand's.

Concept

A service station sells exactly the same thing as the one on the next corner, at the same regulated price. There is no product to differentiate. All that is left is why you choose this one and not the other — and that is the whole campaign, right down to the name: Buenas Razones, BR.

The site solves it with a single visual idea. You see the forecourt head on, with the pumps, the blue and yellow canopy, the attendants waiting. Two of the bays have cars, and the cars keep changing: a modern saloon beside a Ford from the forties, a seventies muscle car beside a Japanese sports car. Each pair carries its own label —Classic Reasons / Modern Reasons, New / Old— and the line below closes the argument. What it says without saying it is the only thing a station can really promise: here you get the same service whatever you drive in with.

The whole site happens inside that single image: the navigation is two road signs planted in the median, as if they were part of the station. The interface does not sit on top of the scene, it lives inside it. Behind it there is a full corporate site for a distributor's other audience, with a gallery of facilities and access to Logistics, linked in both directions. It is the cleanest case in the archive about how you differentiate the undifferentiable.

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Screens

4 screens

Classic Reasons / Modern Reasons: a seventies muscle car and a Japanese sports car — Barcos & Rodados
Classic Reasons / Modern Reasons: a seventies muscle car and a Japanese sports car02 / 04
New Reasons / Old Reasons: a current saloon and a Ford from the forties — Barcos & Rodados
New Reasons / Old Reasons: a current saloon and a Ford from the forties03 / 04
The corporate site: gallery of facilities, links to Logistics and the canopy as a navigation bar — Barcos & Rodados
The corporate site: gallery of facilities, links to Logistics and the canopy as a navigation bar04 / 04