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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
From Rolex to TAG Heuer: How LVMH took formula 1's time

Culture

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Jun 17, 2026

From Rolex to TAG Heuer: How LVMH took formula 1's time

Rolex spent a decade timing Formula 1 quietly. LVMH paid double to make sure you'd notice. The handover says less about watches than about us.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
We created a brand the GLP-1 category forgot to make

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Jun 15, 2026

We created a brand the GLP-1 category forgot to make

One in eight Americans is on a GLP-1. The brands built around them all made the same error without realising it. This quarter we built the one that didn't. Introducing Verve.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
The Weekly Rundown: How the 2026 FIFA World Cup became the biggest brand machine in history

The Rundown

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Jun 11, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: How the 2026 FIFA World Cup became the biggest brand machine in history

Also: the hyperlocal code Sardinia cracked, designing for the user who can't be polite, and Nike tearing up the football rulebook with Rip the Script.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Nike tears up the football rulebook with Rip the Script

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Jun 11, 2026

Nike tears up the football rulebook with Rip the Script

The last time a football ad felt like this, Brazil were dancing samba in the changing room. That was 2006.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
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