For Beck’s, beer always goes hand in hand with art—this year, Anheuser-Busch InBev’s brand is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Art Labels project by launching a plethora of themed activities (the recent Beck’s Art Crawl exhibit if one of them) revolving around creativity. In collaboration with Mother London, the brand has started an ambitious three-year initiative dubbed The Green Box Project, celebrating art, independent talents and technology at the same time. Beck’s is offering artists from various creative fields (not only visual) a unique opportunity to get their pieces showcased in the groundbreaking virtual gallery for people to ‘unlock’ them via augmented-reality in “the visually stunning and technically pioneering” Green Boxes designed by Jason Bruges—they will be located across more than 80 countries in major cities of the world including London, Miami, Milan, New York and Rome to name but a few.
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On June 23, Nike re-opened its major 1948 store in Shoreditch. In the summer of 2008, Nike launched 1948 in an abandoned East London railway arch. Part retail space, part creative playground, 1948 ‘was about the constantly shifting space between art and athleticism,’ as explained in on the store’s web site. The space has undergone an extensive re-design in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
Leading technological companies love art and launch numerous initiatives revolving around creativity. Following Intel, which kicked off its awesome Remastered initiative earlier this year, and BMW, which collaborated with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to name but a few, Samsung presented its SIM project in Portugal aimed at promoting creativity in the country. Starting May, the brand is collaborating with recognized artists and encouraging young creative talents from a range of industries to join in, become part of the grandiose movement, share their insights and win Samsung’s YES award.
Today’s unconventional solutions in visual art often become tomorrow’s fashion trends—emerging talents with their avant-garde thinking and unpredicted approaches to unleashing creativity are one of the biggest treasures for the world of fashion. Knowing that, Louis Vuitton teamed up with a dozen of aspiring artists to provide young geniuses from across the city with an opportunity to demonstrate what they can and learn more about the contemporary art at the awesome website called REcreative.
illy has announced the finalists of its 2011 AuthentiCity photography contest as a follow-up to the last year’s inaugural competition, launched the coffee brand in partnership with the NYC-based School of Visual Arts (SVA). In its second year, the project is again encouraging emerging talents to come up with their visual personal interpretations of the big city and discover its unique sprit. The jury panel selected Phil Kline, Jessica Miller and David Rapoport as this year’s finalists—in 2010, there were five people, and they have been commissioned with the task to create new pieces of work, which will help the judges to select the winner.
On June 8, Bombay Sapphire made the situated on the Thames bank Battersea Power Station illuminate with a 3D spectacular projection. The imagination was the key-point of the Bombay Sapphire ‘Project Your Imagination Competition’. Launched in December 2010 the famous gin brand asked people from all the world to demonstrate their imagination by submitting ideas including drawings and poems, to be used as the inspiration for the Bombay Sapphire 3D show.