Henkel has announced the start of the fourth “Henkel Innovation Challenge” (HIC) international student competition. An exclusive round-the-world trip awaits the winners. And the three best teams will also be invited to the Henkel headquarters in Düsseldorf where they will get an opportunity to personally meet Henkel CEO Kasper Rorsted. Moreover, the most talented, creative and ambitious competitors from Russia will have an opportunity to get a trainee job at the company’s Moscow office with further employment perspective.
festivals and competitions
This summer, Philips and the renowned director/producer Ridley Scott launched a global filmmaker competition dubbed “Tell It Your Way” following its Cannes Lions award-winning short-film project “Parallel Lines.” The entrants were given a freedom of expression and could take up any theme they wanted, still there were two strict rules—there had to be the exact six-line dialogue as it was in the Parallel Lines films, plus the entries could last no longer than three minutes. Now, with the selection period being over, it’s time to announce the winners.
Doritos Australia has eventually named the winner of its “Doritos Make an Ad, Make a Fortune” national contest, which started in May. For the second consecutive year, the brand in cooperation with the Sydney-based Clemenger BBDO agency was encouraging creative minds from all across the country to enter the competition and become rich by creating a funny 29-second ad about Doritos. This year’s winner, 21-year old Alex George, managed to win the heart of the judges and voters with his ‘Tasmanian’ commercial and received $30 as the prize for sharing a piece of his creativity with Australia.
Coty is calling for moves. To promote the new product, adidas Moves Pulse, the global fragrance and the iris creative agency presented a website, which also serves as a platform of the new contest, encouraging US high school students (13 years of age and over) to showcase their inspirational moves for a chance to win $15,000 for their High School and $1,000 of adidas gear for them and their team.
Campbell Soup is enlisting the power of NFL pros to create a game-winning strategy for dads who struggle for eating right and being active. To address this challenge, Super Bowl winners Tony Dungy and Jerome Bettis are teaming up to launch the Campbell’s Chunky soup “All Pro Dad” pledge, which encourages dads to make small changes that can make a big difference at home.
Hugo Create kicked off the 17th round of its global design contest, taking music as the basic theme for artists and illustrators to employ. The starting point of the previous ‘cycle’ (Motion of sound) was tunes as well, and this quite surprising that the brand has asked creatives to develop their works around music again since it never uses one theme for two times in a row.
Clinique and Teen Vogue, the leading teen fashion magazine, are launching the second annual Clinique Fresh Faces Tour. The 13-city tour will travel to college campuses and select Nordstrom locations from September 14 through November 9 to inspire young women interested in fashion, beauty and publishing careers and educate them about how to break into these desirable industries.
IKEA USA announced the launch of The Life Improvement Project, a program designed to educate, inspire and empower people to improve their lives, as well as the lives of others in their community. The national program consists of a range of contests and activities, giving IKEA employees the opportunity to get further engaged in local community initiatives.