The organization responsible for marketing the United States to world visitors unveiled ‘Brand USA,’ America’s first-ever global consumer brand. Formerly known as the Corporation for Travel Promotion, but now doing business as Brand USA Inc., the group introduced its global brand positioning and strategy before an international audience of travel professionals and destinations in London. The creation of America’s new global brand is the first critical step in the development of the nation’s first unified marketing effort. Brand USA Inc. will launch their first official advertising and marketing campaign in the spring of 2012 to invite world guests to visit America for leisure, business and scholarly purposes.

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. With more than 6,000 submissions from 40 countries, the Red Dot’s international design competition ranks among the largest and most renowned in the world. The competition is divided into three categories: product design, communication design, and design concept. It serves to recognize those organizations that distinguish their business activities through design. This year the official award ceremony to honor the winners in the communication design category was held at the Konzerthaus in Berlin on October 7.

Pearlfisher has created the brand identity, tone of voice and name for Wyld Wood Premium Organic cider from Westons Cider. Westons Wyld Wood is the new brand name for Westons Premium Organic cider. Made from organic apples and pears, Wlyd Wood is a delicious premium organic cider. The new name emphasises the cider’s organic and natural quality and references the orchards in which the apples and pears are grown. The name helps to draw the consumer into the brand’s provenance and the ‘Y’ in ‘Wyld’ is a reference to the Wye Valley, which is at the heat of the cider industry.