Taco Bell® launches its first-ever taco e-gifting service
Taco Bell is establishing an e-gifting feature ahead of the holiday rush, looking to court consumers who want to send friends and family comfort food and personalized messages as presents.
State of creativity: A new world shaping a new breed of creative
2020 has created a complete shift in how creativity comes to life and will permanently change the creative industry as we know it.
Vote the Assholes Out
Patagonia escalates activism with voting rights push before elections.
Workload up for 82% of in-house creative teams, driven by demand for digital content
Seventy-four percent of internal creative teams have been set up in the past five years, with 82% of that group reporting their workloads have increased in the past year.
Pandemic accelerates power shift in fashion, advertising
The pandemic has accelerated a power shift in the fashion and advertising world, with models and influencers by necessity wielding more control over their own images during remote photo and video shoots. Modeling agencies are calling for companies to ship clothes directly to models, advertisers are crowd-sourcing video campaigns and...
Google’s Advertising Platform Is Blocking Articles About Racism
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which the magazine had run in its August 1963 issue and republished, in print and online, in 2018. Several hours later, the publication’s staff noticed that Google’s Ad Exchange platform, which...
Life Below Water
By the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. That’s right. In just a few decades, plastic waste will be swimming in every corner of our planet, decimating entire fish species and ecosystems along the way. That’s why Goodby Silverstein & Partners teamed up with...
How a Cutting-Edge Creative Turns to Pinterest to Make Inspired Decisions
When Mara Lecocq, creative powerhouse and current brand director at professional networking app Fishbowl, was a design student, she would buy one $50 art book to serve as her guide and inspiration for the entire year. That world is no more. The explosion of visual expression on social and digital...
Milton Glaser Made You Look Once, Think Twice
The greatest artistic fame might be the kind where few people know your name but everyone knows your work, because it feels as inevitable to the everyday culture as fire or the wheel. The fact that one person had to invent it from nothing gets forgotten, or overlooked, as the...
Polestar Launches Global Design Contest
As a design-focused car brand with a designer as its CEO, Polestar announces an annual Design Contest. Running this year from 23 June to 26 October, the contest will uniquely see Polestar designers coaching shortlisted contestants and modelers assisting to bring their creations to life. The contest is inspired by...