Usually, brands put the focus on positive things while promoting its products, but sometimes they decide to forget about sweet things and dare to come close to the line, which divides the gritty criminal world and the life of model citizens—of course, only in advertising, not when doing business. Humorous or ironical advertising campaigns featuring robbers, spies, thieves, corsairs, undercover agents, peace-breakers and all sorts of baddies (barring cruel dictators) as well as their victims are showcased in this review.

Benetton have partnered with The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in arranging series of exhibitions entitled Vision and Vernacular: Eight African-American Artists in Venice. Interestingly, these exhibitions which were to take place during the Venice Biennale from June 1–15, 2011,  aimed at providing space for self-taught African American artists to display their works to the world.

The L’Oreal-owned brand Garnier announces an exclusive partnership with TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies specializing in making consumer products from post-consumer materials. Millions of pieces of waste are expected to be collected by Garnier globally for the purposes of reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills. Through the sponsorship of worldwide Personal Care and Beauty Brigade (individuals or groups who sign up to participate), personal care and beauty product packaging will be collected and shipped to a TerraCycle facility.

P&G Future Friendly yesterday, April 11, announced a national partnership with Recyclebank in the U.S. to reward people for taking everyday conservation actions. The partnership, which follows a successful collaboration between Future Friendly and Recyclebank in Cincinnati that enhanced the city’s recycling efforts, will help inspire residents nationwide to adopt recycling practices while rewarding households for reducing waste.

Master students of Domus Academy from around the world have unveiled the fruit of their work as part of ‘Resource’ project initiated by Electrolux last year. Altogether, the ‘Resource’ kitchen features 9 novel concepts of futuristic appliances that consider sustainability and culture under the theme of ‘Re-source’. The launch of the project has coincided with 2011 Milan Design Week and has taken place before the closure of the entry to the annual Electrolux Design Lab.

PepsiCo-owned Frito-Lay has kicked off the biggest campaign in the brand’s history by introducing Flavor Kitchen in the very heart of the Big Apple—on Time Square. In course of this week-long event that is slated to last from April 11 until April 15, Frito-Lay will let consumers see what’s cooking in its Flavor Kitchen located in the headquarters in Plano, Texas. Padma Lakshmi, an award-winning TV host, cookbook author and just a terrific cook, will join Frito-Lay executive chef Stephen Kalil and Laura Macintosh, host of the brand’s own “Flavor Kitchen” web series to let the consumers in behind-the-scenes area of snack manufacturing and guide them «from seed to shelf».

To continue a series of recycling-oriented projects, which include the famous 111 Navy Chair and the recently presented ‘Give It Back’ racks, Coca-Cola collaborated with a range of apparel designers on creating a collection of T-shirts, made of recycled PET bottles, as part of the Coca-Cola rPET Program. For the line, launched just in time for the Earth Month, the company and Base Control, the Japanese casual wear brand, teamed up with Stussy, BEAMS, XLARGE, SILAS, JOURNAL STANDARD, LUKER by NEIGHBORHOOD, Beauty & Youth and BASESTATION, as www.hypebeast.com reports.