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Wild Deodorant promises to make you drier than a nun’s 🫢

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Jul 1, 2026

Wild Deodorant promises to make you drier than a nun’s 🫢

You don't always have to say it. Let the nun do it.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Weekly Rundown: How to find the angle your category is missing

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Jun 25, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: How to find the angle your category is missing

Also inside: the week Cannes stopped fearing AI, the quiet death of the monoculture, June's fonts worth licensing, and Loewe without its visionary.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Everyone is watching something else

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Jun 24, 2026

Everyone is watching something else

The internet split culture into a billion private editions, then convinced each of us we were reading the front page.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
What happens when you take the visionary out?

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Jun 24, 2026

What happens when you take the visionary out?

Everyone is replaceable" is what you tell yourself — until your best creative walks out the door. Jonathan Anderson's exit from Loewe is the rare case where the person who left had already made sure the work could stay.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
Fonts actually worth licensing in June

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Jun 24, 2026

Fonts actually worth licensing in June

Four typefaces worth licensing this month — from Klim's monumental Mānuka to Dinamo's beautifully conflicted Laica.

Valentina Borroni
Valentina Borroni
Don't Disappear: the campaign we built for the GLP-1 generation

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Jun 23, 2026

Don't Disappear: the campaign we built for the GLP-1 generation

Somewhere between client projects we asked ourselves what it would look like to build a real campaign from scratch — strategy to screen, zero budget, zero original footage. This is the answer.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Weekly Rundown: How Birkenstock made fashion come to them

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Jun 18, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: How Birkenstock made fashion come to them

Also: the GLP-1 brand the category forgot to make, how LVMH rewrote Formula 1 time from Rolex to TAG Heuer, and Apple finding a better way to talk about privacy.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Birkenstock Playbook: How to build a brand that fashion has to come to

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Jun 18, 2026

Birkenstock Playbook: How to build a brand that fashion has to come to

It took a back injury and two years of my wife's patience to convert me. The brand has been making the same argument for 250 years. Turns out they were right.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Apple found a better way to talk about privacy

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Jun 17, 2026

Apple found a better way to talk about privacy

Apple’s Clingers turns an invisible privacy problem into something impossible to ignore, proving that people change behaviour when they feel discomfort, not when they're given information.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
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