Levi’s extends its recent global campaign, “Make Our Mark,” with a knowledge-focused partnership with the collaborative learning company Skillshare. Together, they are launching a series of online video classes that will help users develop creative skills as different as designing meaningful tattoos, capturing the surroundings with a mobile phone, creating typographics inspired by sound, designing vintage-inspired postcards from the future, and more.
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The auto brand MINI, which has been rolling out its Not Normal campaign with a bunch of odd but smart efforts, has recently made quite a traditional addition to its MINI Lifestyle Collection. The range of branded goods that includes apparel, toys, bicycles, bags, luggage, and other lifestyle accessories, is now broadened with a collection of five sophisticated sport watches. The timepieces are said to “continue the brand’s tradition of functionality and ease of use.”
The sportswear brand Patagonia has announced a new initiative The Responsible Economy in the U.S. that focuses on the principle of seeing new in the old. The brand is calling consumers and manufacturers to be more attentive to the old things they are going to send to the landfill in order to save more, both for their pockets and the planet.
Levi’s new international campaign, “Make Our Mark,” aims to evoke an inner artist in every person and links to the art project-on-the-wheels, “Station To Station,” which is now being rolled out across the U.S. through September 28. The new campaign, developed by AKQA , invites people to ponder over their creative identities and get inspired by a roster of experts in the fields ranging from music to writing to technology.
Nike is rolling out its first campaign dedicated to the Olympics 2020 that will be hosted by Tokyo in seven years. The idea behind the effort by Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo is that there’s much time left before the games launch, so we all have seven years to decide what our life will be like in nearly a decade. The campaign is running under the tagline “Nothing has been decided yet.”
Diet Coke has revealed the winning design of the second annual Diet Coke Young Designer Challenge, announced in the U.S. in mid-May. The participants were tasked to create a design for a limited-edition T-shirt that would capture Diet Coke’s “Stay Extraordinary” ethos and mirror the style of the brand’s ambassador Taylor Swift. The winning work by Brooklyn-based Julianna Bass features a modern, self-assured woman in “a dramatically flaring red skirt” and a stepped shirt, leaning on the Diet Coke logo, placed vertically.
Marks & Spencer is celebrating a dozen of Britain’s most influential women and their diverse styles in the new campaign “Leading Ladies of Britain.” The award-winning actress Helen Mirren, singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding, renowned artist Tracey Emin, famous female boxer Nicola Adams, and others got in the spotlight. The new campaign, which supports the launch of the brand’s autumn/winter fashion collection, triumphs the strong personal attitude of each model and inspires women to keep true to their style, respecting their differences rather than trying to diminish them.