MINI is launching a new photography and design competition, now inviting creative minds from across the globe to turn on the lights. The creative community of the MINI Space platform is encouraged to interpret the theme of Lights Up! through their visual creations for a chance to receive tech prizes.
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The smart auto brand and the Danish furniture manufacturer BoConcept are re-imagining the urban outdoor space with a new artistic project, launched in support of their latest “My urban living room” creative collaboration. The two brands have tapped contemporary designers to create state-of-the-art outdoor installations, modern home space, in the street of four European cities. The extravagant open-air pop-up spaces are designed to highlight BoConcept’s smartville furniture collection and the smart fortwo edition BoConcept, the products that emerged from the brands’ tie-up.
Beefeater Gin teams up with Bastille, the popular UK band, for a cultural project, The Beefeater Alchemy Project, set to draw inspiration and encapsulate the artistic spirit of Europe. Together, they are creating a documentary film and a music track, which will be produced in London from the best sounds, ideas and trends absorbed during a continental tour across Europe.
Hermès has added a new, audio dimension to its jewelry in the new digital campaign, The Sound of Hermès Silver. For the effort, the luxury brand has teamed up with London-based United Visual Artists, art and design practice, to create an unconventional digital project in which silver is given a voice, literally. The project was masterminded by the Dan Paris agency.
American multimedia artist Doug Aitken has teamed up with Levi’s to launch a travelling art initiative, Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening, in the USA. Over three weeks in September, an unusual train designed as an art studio will be making stops in ten U.S. cities, bringing site-specific “happenings” and “cultural interventions” to each of destinations on the list.