The originally American brand M&M’s turned British in a new promotion dedicated to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which start this weekend. The brand launched a new TV advert dubbed ‘Union Jack,’ which celebrates the British spirit and pays tribute to the colours of the national flag.
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Benetton has launched a new online hub Benetton Kids Community dedicated to and aimed at digital-savvy kids and their parents. Children like vibrant colours, and the brand shares this passion, that’s why the new community is extremely flamboyant and is soaked with bright and catchy tones. In fact, parents are those who are expected to bring their offspring to the new online destination, which is totally safe for kids from the informational point of view, and they are who register kids there (the number of kids from one family is limited to three children up to 12 years old).
illy makes another artistic statement by launching a new cup set as part of its extensive illy art collection, which already includes a plethora of coffee cups and saucers created by celebrated artists from around the globe since 1992, the year of the line’s launch. Being one of the artistic illy cups and resonating with the collection’s philosophy (the creator’s style gets splashed on the cup of an unchanged traditional shape), the new piece by a duo of contemporary Turkish artists, Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, :mentalKLINIK stands out by its origin since it’s the first ever co-curated cup. The latest addition to the collection has been developed under the creative supervision of two, illycaffè’s art director Carlo Bach and Jérôme Sans, cultural curator of Le Méridien, the Paris-born hotel brand.
Having been set 8 years ago in London by our today’s interviewee Nick Dormon, Echo is made up of an eclectic mix of people, backgrounds, insights and experience which best matches the challenges faced by brand-owners — there isn’t a one size fits all approach. Echo’s fresh, but intelligent approach combined with uncompromised values influenced the likes of Unilever and Molson Coors to choose Echo as their creative partner on some significant and long-term projects.
In the interview to Popsop Nick shares his insight on the importance of graphics and structural design as one entity, explains why ‘madness, magic and meaning’ are the core Echo’s values, and argues on the shift from designing for stand-out to meaningful branding.