Probably, the one of the best ways to immortalize a brand is to release a book dedicated to it. This approach has been used by a range of brands including IKEA, Nivea and Coca-Cola to name but a few, and New Balance decided to join these ranks. The sportswear brand has released a book titled Let’s Make Excellent Happen, in which it explores its most successful collections of the past and highlights the upcoming Fall/Winter 2012 collection.

The article is written by Greg Taylor, Director of Brand Provocation at Elmwood, London

The Monday morning after the Olympics drew to a spectacular close, London felt a little blue. We’d all been feasting on sport for a fortnight and had the wholesome equivalent of a hangover. Talk is now turning to performance and legacy. You can cut the medals tables in different ways – weighting by GDP, population or team size so different nations come out on top—but however you look at it, women were the real winners in 2012.

If you don’t know what to give your friends as a present on a great occasion, give them a gift card. Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, Google enters the gift card field by launching a bunch of certificates, which can be a great solution for those who are ran out of gift ideas. The Google Play gift cards will be available in the US only over the coming weeks, and so far the company doesn’t say if it’s going to expand it to other countries soon.