Jamie Gumbrecht

As recent transplants to Atlanta, my then-editor and I commiserated about the oddities of our new city, including the sudden awareness that our ZIP codes meant more than just getting the mail. With that in mind, we worked together with designers to create an unusual format to match a story that explored where ZIP codes come from and what they mean to Atlantans.

This story ran in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on April 27, 2008.

Read the story: Cracking the ZIP code of Atlanta

See the design: Cracking the ZIP code of Atlanta (PDF)