London-based creative agency JKR, which for the second year round has been running the blog for branding & marketing industry people—Design Gazette—has recently published its second Anthology called “The Blue Lady’s New Look and Other Curiosities”. It rounds up all the core trends and observations previously appreared online on the blog and adds a lot more new thinking on top.

This summer, Cadbury, the official sponsor of the upcoming London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, announced a massive campaign entitled ‘Spots v Stripes’ for the UK to promote its involvements into the international sports event. Back then, the company launched a website dedicated to the promotion and announced that it would kick off both online and offline activities. As part of the national movement, the brand released 100 GPS-activated balls in the UK and encouraged participants of the campaign to help the balls travel across the country.

Adopting the idea employed by another player on the auto market, Honda Jazz, MINI Canada offers its fans to stuff all of their friends into just one vehicle. The brand is encouraging Facebook users to gather all their online buddies and see how many of them can fit into MINI Countryman model. The more people you manage to invite to get into the car, the higher is the chance of winning the vehicle.

Russian subsidiary of Interbrand, the leading global agency in creating and managing brand value, in cooperation with the Kommersant DENGI weekly, announces the publication of its annual Best Russian Brands 2010 lead table. It is the fifth year that Interbrand research in Russia has helped to define the top 40 national trademarks that create and retain high value in today’s competitive marketplace.

Domino’s Pizza, one of the biggest US pizza brands, being determined to change their customer’s attitude to the ingredients used in course of pizza production, launched its latest marketing campaign dubbed ‘Behind the Pizza’. Several videos showed how the target group, taken to Wisconsin countryside, sitting in a room and sharing their perception of ingredients of Domino’s Pizza (generally, American’s don’t believe food products are made of natural ingredients)… Suddenly the room rigs up to reveal the Wisconsin farm where the fresh ingredients are harvested. The camera capture’s astonished customers who are really impressed with the brand’s efforts to deliver fresh and natural products.