Tapping into the power of music, Hyundai has joined forces with music’s biggest brand—The Recording Academy (internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards)—to become its ‘Official Vehicle Partner.’ The multi-year partnership extends well beyond the annual GRAMMY Awards and will result in original music projects sure to please music fans across many genres and categories. In addition to being the exclusive GRAMMY vehicle partner, Hyundai is working directly with The Recording Academy to identify and support new projects reflecting the brand’s creativity and desire to celebrate music year-round.

Ford Motor Company has teamed up with SHFT.com, the award-winning multimedia platform founded by actor and filmmaker Adrian Grenier and film producer Peter Glatzer. The automaker is intended to continue its efforts on smarter environmental decisions and the green lifestyle website will help inspiring people to go ‘greener’ through film, design, art, transportation and culture. 

Benetton, the international apparel brand, which is spreading the idea of love and unity across the globe with its hilarious promotional projects along with selling brightly colored sweaters and dresses, is now rolling out a new international campaign entitled UNHATE and launches a foundation of the same name to cultivate the principle of love and tolerance despite all religious, cultural, governmental, national and individual differences. The new multiplatform campaign developed by Fabrica Italy and 72andSunny includes a series of posters featuring modern political leaders from different ‘camps’ kissing each other (remember the legendary Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker’s smooch?) and an impressive 60-second spot by French director Laurent Chanez, which showcases the moments of love, kissing and embraces closely entwined with aggressiveness, fights and blood.

Delicious food is just one side of gastronomy, which also has a much more unpleasant facet, waste. Unilever Food Solutions commissioned a new World Menu Report entitled ‘Sustainable Kitchens: Reducing Food Waste’ (download it here) revolving around one of the most disturbing issues in the field of restaurant industry. The team behind the research investigated the problem and surveyed 4,000 diners in the U.S., UK, Germany, China, Russia, Poland, Brazil and Turkey. This research unveils consumers’ attitude towards the methods of food waste disposal used by restaurants and diners as well as sustainability practices these venues adopt. In fact, the problem now is really huge considering the fact that “a single restaurant in the U.S. can produce approximately 25,000-75,000 pounds of food waste in a year depending on the size of the establishment, according to an extensive analysis of restaurants by the Green Restaurant Association (GRA),” as Unilever states in its press release.