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The number that replaced the calorie

Culture

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Jul 30, 2026

The number that replaced the calorie

How protein stopped being a nutrient and became the one number we're allowed to count up — in a moment when nothing else about food feels sure.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
What your company does when nobody's watching is the brand now

Opinion

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Jul 30, 2026

What your company does when nobody's watching is the brand now

A fired NICU mom, a fake mascara review, and the year audiences stopped reading what companies say and started reading what they do.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Curated list of nice things - July edition

Inspiration

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Jul 28, 2026

Curated list of nice things - July edition

Our monthly collection of objects, ideas and details we think deserve your attention.

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Beefeater built the floor Jamiroquai couldn't afford in 1996

Campaigns

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Jul 28, 2026

Beefeater built the floor Jamiroquai couldn't afford in 1996

Nine sets by hand, a real moving floor, and Jay Kay dancing on the one thing CGI would have made easy. Sometimes the best way to move forward is to remake the impossible.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
The Weekly Rundown: The business of nostalgia

The Rundown

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Jul 23, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: The business of nostalgia

Also: thirteen years of agencies copying the wrong half of the Oatly carton, what holds a global creative agency together when everything wants to fall apart, and Gap's biggest denim launch of the year being one girl on a bedroom floor.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Gap's biggest denim launch of the year is a girl sitting on a bedroom floor

Campaigns

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Jul 22, 2026

Gap's biggest denim launch of the year is a girl sitting on a bedroom floor

After two years of viral dance ads, The Hailey Jean bets that Hailey Bieber doing nothing is worth more than eight dancers hitting a mark.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
What holds a global creative agency together when everything wants to fall apart

Agency Life

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Jul 22, 2026

What holds a global creative agency together when everything wants to fall apart

Two hundred slides in three days is impossible in one office and routine across four. Not because of the time zones — because of the person holding them together.

Aneley Bandelli
Aneley Bandelli
Oatly Playbook: how the back of a carton became the most valuable space in the aisle

Deep Dive

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Jul 22, 2026

Oatly Playbook: how the back of a carton became the most valuable space in the aisle

Oatly had no media budget, so it printed the advertising on the box. Everyone remembers the wonky logo. The part that actually worked was the writing, and it's the only half nobody has managed to copy.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The business of nostalgia

Culture

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Jul 22, 2026

The business of nostalgia

Gen Z is paying luxury prices for discontinued technology, and every film the industry makes is one it already made. Nostalgia stopped being a feeling and became a business model.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
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