Summer is a perfect season to get into sports, and Nike’s products help us to re-connect with this universe of physical activity. The iconic sportswear brand has teamed up with TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation products and services, to create a new collection of intuitive Nike+ SportWatch GPS, which allow runners track their achievements and receive actual info literally on the go.
Author: Anna Rudenko
Remember Diesel’s underwear, which reflects the qualities of some of the most popular comic books superheroes? Now, Marvel Entertainment has teamed up with Reebok to offer people all around the globe an opportunity to get footwear, which could be a perfect match for the Diesel briefs. The sportswear giant has launched a line of sneakers, which pay tribute to iconic superheroes and villains from the comics universe, Captain America, Red Skull, Spider-Man, Venom, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool, Chamber, Black Widow and Emma Frost.
Hendrick’s Gin has embarked on a unique journey across the US to introduce its bizarre retro and fairy-tale style to the people in Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City. The brand, which is known for its unparalleled visual approach (its promotional activities and the website design are paying tribute to the cartoonyish and somewhat Monty Pytonish aesthetics), launched its five-port tour Voyages Into The Unusual on June 6. The brand will stop three nights in each of the destinations, transforming the hosting venues into a totally alternate realm, just like it did last this year as part of The Hendrick’s Enchanted Forest of Curiosities tour.
This summer, due to the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a range of brands got a touch of britishness. London, as the epicenter for this summer events, has become the major source of inspiration for designers—the style, culture and history of the capital are the trending themes of the new packaging designs. Beefeater, which is originally a London product, highlighted its connection with the capital by launching the Beefeater Inside London Limited Edition bottle, designed by Coley Porter Bell.
Louis Vuitton is continuing the visual conversation, started with hilarious guide videos to support new guide books release, with an animated story about board games. The fashion giant has released a marvelous video dubbed ‘All Abroad Games’ to pay tribute to the games, which were traditionally played during the travelling before the era of laptops and iPads.
When kids are engaged into a creative project, it can result in something really stunning. LEGO’s brand Duplo has commissioned little kids, whose creativity doesn’t know any borders, to develop the shop windows for the department store NK in Stockholm to. In the new project, conceived by Jung von Matt, Stockholm, the young designers will use their unconventional style and fresh approach, making something unusual, which is still kept under wraps—the brand is inviting its consumers to try and guess what this will be.
Recycling has inspired a range of apparel brands, including Levi’s, H&M, Nike and PUMA to name but a few, which launched a plethora of dedicated projects around the globe, creating new items from old things and encouraging people to participate. PUMA, which created Clever Little Bag and Re-Suede shoe, has recently launched another recycling project, the campaign dubbed PUMA Bring Me Back Program, inviting people to donate their old clothing and footwear to a good cause—contributing to a healthier environment—instead of sending it to the landfill.
Following the name-focused promotion launched last year, Coca-Cola South Pacific has kicked off another activation revolving around personalization. The iconic carbonated drink brand is offerings its Australian consumers an opportunity to choose the bottle of Diet Coke, which suits their current mood, and get rewarded for this. The Reward Your Mood marketing campaign, which is fronted by a new Diet Coke ambassador, young US actor Chace Crawford, has been launched across Australia and includes on-pack, out-of-home and online promotion via the Coke Unleashed website and the brand’s Facebook page.