In early 2013, Absolut teamed up with Threadless users for a crowdsourcing contest to develop a new limited-edition bottle for the latest city-inspired flavor, Absolut Chicago. Now, the brand is unveiling the results of the collaboration—an artwork created by Ross Bruggink, 26, reflects the city’s architecture and culture symbols that make Chicago a modern classic.

McDonald’s is going to treat U.S. kids with books along with its traditional food in Happy Meal packs from November 1-14. For the literacy-boosting promotion, the fast food giant has self-published four children books featuring cute brand’s characters—no Hamburglar or Ronald McDonald are included. The books will replace traditional toys that usually go together with the Happy Meal boxes.

Uniqlo is launching Uniqlo HairDo, an unexpected addition to the lookbook of the 2013 Fall & Winter collection—the Japanese clothing brand is unveiling simple hairstyles that will best fit the new items of the brand. All of the hairdos are DIY (“do-it-yourself”), and the brand is explaining how to create each of them with a step-by-step tutorial.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its 911 model, Porsche is presenting a nice musical promotion that uses cars as musical scale syllables. Each of the seven cars, including the vintage and modern versions, are revving their engines to produce seven notes. Each car is “responsible” for one of the tones, depending on the model’s generation—from “c”  for the oldest (1963-1973) through “h”  for the latest (2011-2013).

Vending machines have a long history dating back to 215BC. Greek mathematician Hero created the first vending machine dispensing holy water in exchange for a coin. Now fast forward to 1880 where the more modern style vending machine was created in London dispensing postcards. From there, it didn’t take long for vending machines to pop up in the U.S. and the rest of the world.