Jul
22
For flip sake – Aer Lingus are confusing the Americans
ByThe Cliffs of Moher as we all know and love them
The Cliffs of Moher as seen on the Aer Lingus website.
Seriously like. Why does the web graphics person think it’s ok to flip an iconic scene like this? It’s even worse then they horizontally flip a persons face for the web or newspaper. It just looks weird…
Cliffs of Moher image by Beppie K [cc]
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4 Comments
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Maybe there’s something psychological in advertising about placing faces to the left-side of an image? Something to do with looking forward as opposed to backwards. I could just be talking sh1te though, I’ve no idea.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
‘Fall’ escorted tour! jazus one would not want to stand too close to the edge then eh
July 24th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Possible that they were taken from the other end?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreatrasatti/4100291203/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/franma/4338474003/
Might also be because they have been A/B testing the images and found that the Americans view Ireland as a country to the East/Right and this converts better for them.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Could be something in that alright K8.
Heh – the “fall” bit and cliff juxtaposition totally passed me by A Hive.
It’s definitely flipped Dave – the view looking the other way doesn’t stretch as far. It wouldn’t have entered my mind that there was more to it (re split testing ) good point.