
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick in Australia. To commemorate the milestone, LEGO Australia has launched the Festival of Play...
16 April 2012

Mattel is expected to create a bald doll that will be a friend of Barbie due to a Facebook campaign and petition that grew enormously the last few months.
10 April 2012

After the last year's scandal with Greenpeace, Mattel is running a new global marketing campaign to promote its Barbie doll brand. The more than 50 years old brand encourages girls to ‘See What Happens When...
22 February 2012

Hasbro, a toys and games company, has signed pop icon Britney Spears to launch the new Twister Dance game which combines dance music with the Twister spots.
3 February 2012

LEGO has launched an online platform for those passionate about building LEGO and sharing it with other fans. Called ReBrick, the social media platform is open for fans ages 13 and up.
25 January 2012

The LEGO Group announced LEGO® Friends, a new play theme that tailors the iconic LEGO construction experience especially to girls ages five and up. LEGO Friends delivers on a girl's desire for realistic role-play, creativity, and a highly-detailed, character-based world with the...
20 December 2011

Lexus marks this holiday season with its ‘December to Remember’ social media campaign in which the automaker will donate $5 to Toys for Tots for each post shared. The ‘December to Remember’ program is a part of Lexus’ CSR project called ‘Pursuit of...
8 December 2011

LEGO has launched a new crowd sourcing web platform LEGO CUUSOO to search for new ideas for its products. CUUSOO asks the LEGO fans to submit and vote for their favorite ideas for new LEGO products.
4 October 2011

A new report from Brand Republic and Harris Interactive shows a table of leading household brands that children like the most.
15 August 2011

The new LEGO’s initiative was presented at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in a session hosted by Naked Communication, its...
21 June 2011
“For an average consumer the value of branding is down to making the right choice”

Sara Jones, Creative Director at brand development and packaging design agency Anthem Worldwide, shares her round up of the top five print innovations, which have the potential to create real standout, as long as they’re used to enhance –- rather than ‘be’ -- the brand idea.
If you had to choose the ultimate business super power, what would it be? Big budgets, global reach, an innovation pipeline full to bursting, a PR machine capable of generating positive press 24/7? Without hesitation, I answered “agility.”
Cheryl Swanson, Head of Toniq, once again explores the consumer trends for different age groups in the USA.
Before we had Apple Macs, Photoshop and a myriad of other programmes, design centered on tradition and craftsmanship, on the physical and the tactile. Yet now, we see the worlds of digital design and physical craftsmanship joining to create new expressions and celebrations of the power of making.
There’s a natural relationship between the style of our daily surroundings and how we feel. A great space can make us feel better, more hopeful and even more productive. And we often use our own space to express a vision of ourselves.

