Lars Andersson is a senior planner at Swedish-based BANG Agency. He argues that agencies have lost their human touch, and in order to rekindle the magic, artists, or ‘idiots’, must be brought back to the fore....
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Is there a place for ‘place’ in an effective branding strategy?
Nikki Moeschinger, managing director at BrandOpus (Australia), considers the concept of utilising ‘place’ in branding. While some can do it very successfully, such as the Australian state of Tasmania, she explains why...
Building the future of branding
Joe Rogers is the co-founder and executive strategy director at Australian-based strategic brand and design agency The Contenders. He underlines the three trends in branding which may determine its future....
Yubi: shaking up banking in India
Philip Orwell is the founder and CEO of London-based brand agency venturethree. He explains how Yubi, a new corporate debt solution brand, meets a pressing need within the evolving Indian credit market....
What if Ritual was the future of brands?
Christophe Rolland is a freelance senior brand strategist and lecturer at the IED Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy and ISCOM Paris, France. He argues consumers still desire the sacred in their lives, and tha...
The story of Commodity
Vivek Bhatia, creative director at London-based ico Design, discusses how a confused fragrance brand became a modern American perfumery. Over the past decade, we’ve s...
The future of green branding
Peter Matthews is the founder and CEO of digital brand consultancy Nucleus. He argues brands must do more than merely not damage the environment, and those who ‘greenwash’ will be caught out....
What should you do when your brand name becomes bad news?
Maria Cypher, co-founder and principal at California-headquartered Catchword Branding, grapples with the history of brand name changing in the wake of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine....
A social-first strategy: how one leading charity shifted its focus
Max Dougall, new business director at Share Creative, explains how his agency reimagined WaterAid without relying on typical rebrand customer analysis. The number of...
Web 3.0: lessons learned in history and the opportunities that await
Sanjay Wadhwani is the founder and CEO of MetaFrames, an NFT Platform and Digital Art Studio. He explains the phenomenon of the metaverse and other sophisticated emerging technologies, and how brands can exploit them....
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