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Rich Hewes
Creativity used to be about chasing ideas worth talking about. Now, as tech eats the word “innovation,” Wayne Deakin and Jeff Bowerman argue that real progress still comes from wandering minds, bold experiments, and work that actually moves people.
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If you care about how brands show up around big cultural moments, this summer’s World Cup is going to be a stress test. Not just for creative work, but for how well we understand what football actually provides people with in 2026.
Rich Hewes
Bad Bunny didn’t switch languages or adapt to the mainstream – and he still ended up owning the Grammys, the Super Bowl and the charts in China. For brands, his rise is a reminder that you can’t buy your way into culture for a quarter and call it a strategy, you need to stay authentic.
Roger Gehrmann
From Chelsea’s “Return of the Rebel” and TAG Heuer’s revived Formula 1 watches to fans co‑creating future kits with AI, clubs and brands are using nostalgia to draw in fans, blending archive with the present day to offer continuity in a culture where the past is as valuable as the future.
Rich Hewes
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Bad Bunny didn’t switch languages or adapt to the mainstream – and he still ended up owning the Grammys, the Super Bowl and the charts in China. For brands, his rise is a reminder that you can’t buy your way into culture for a quarter and call it a strategy, you need to stay authentic.
Roger Gehrmann
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