OVDs Help Brazil Win New Passport Award

In this, the first major redesign of the country’s travel document for over two decades, the Casa da Moeda do Brasil used holograms and optically variable inks (OVIs) to help secure the document – and a prestigious international award.

Biopage (© Ministry of Foreign Relations).

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world by land area, containing five different land regions and approximately 7,500 kilometres of coast along the Atlantic Ocean and six distinct biomes. It is this natural diversity and the richness of its people, traditions, flora and fauna that the team at Casa da Moeda do Brasil, and their clients at the Federal Police and the Ministry of Foreign Relations, wanted to capture in the new passport.