Although cigarettes and tobacco products are not something we cover at all (we deleted on purpose all the design and marketing news on this category since 2008 from ethical considerations), the redesign project for Davidoff’s Winston Churchill Cigars is much more than just a nice identity for another tobacco product. It’s a piece of Britain’s history recited masterfully by branding agency DewGibbons + Partners and ad agency Johnny Fearless.

With the rise of environmental education at all levels and social justice movements globally, we all strive to be ethical consumers and eliminate the feeling of guilt. However, many of us are too busy (or lazy) to change our lifestyle and «make the world a better place»—instead, we expect brands to do so, offering us some simple and easy-to-employ patterns of guilt-free consumption.

Mr. Simon Bolton, a silver-haired noble English gentleman, who dedicated a few decades of his life to the advertising industry, met with us on a chilly Tuesday morning earlier this week to talk about TBU’s business plans in Moscow, to discuss opportunities and threats from the latest Publicis-Omnicom merger for WPP, and to share his vision of a sustainable brand.