Reebok makes it easier to fulfill sport-related resolutions. As part of the ZigTech running shoes promotion, the brand released a clever ‘Promise Keeper’ app which can motivate you to “actually get out and run by using good old fashioned peer pressure.” The new application, developed by Forsman & Bodenfors (Stockholm) for an iPhone and Android, through Facebook and/or Twitter is informing a user’s friends about his or her promises to run and also posts messages, congratulating or lambasting the user depending on if the run is completed or not.
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Converse, the world-renowned footwear brand known for its passion for music and independent artists, has unveiled a new campaign comprehensively implementing the potential of modern-day audio-visual arts.
The campaign entitled ‘Desire’ represents an interactive experience at Schuh’s flagship store in London as well as in other brand’s venues in the U.K. It is based on the ‘Three Artists, One Song’ concept unveiled last year that was designed to create a free MP3 song starring Kid Cudi, Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) and Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend). This year, in its new campaign, Converse has brought together another creative threesome. They are Paloma Faith, Graham Coxon (Blur) and Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral) and have collaborated on an EP called Desire.
Last summer, Levi’s started its massive ‘Ready to Work’ campaign to celebrate labour and common people, and following the launch of this massive promotion, the brand kicked off two workshops, Print (San Francisco) and Photo (New York), which were open in August and October correspondingly, providing creative Americans with an opportunity to develop their new pieces under supervision of industry experts. With the winter break being over now, Levi’s is announcing a follow-up of the successful handicraft-themed series and is opening its new Film Workshop in LA on April 17 to be running through August 8.
Being a long-time supporter of various art projects, Converse comes out as a global sponsor of the LIVE digital design tournament 2010-2011 by Cut&Paste. The brand is once again inviting artists, designers, illustrators, and creatives in the disciplines of 2D, 3D, and Motion Design to compete in creating bespoke digital animation pieces as fast as only professionals can.
Levi Strauss & Co. announced the expansion of its global Denizen™ from Levi’s® brand. Launched initially in Asia in 2010, it will be sold by retailers in the U.S. and Mexico starting this summer. In the U.S., Levi Strauss & Co. have partnered to offer Denizen exclusively at Target and Target.com beginning in July 2011.