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Sustainability Is Dead
There, I said it.
Feb 24 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

December 2025

Brand I Wish I Created: Zohran Mamdani for NYC
A much-needed reminder from across the pond.
Dec 12, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

September 2025

Reinventing Max Factor
How I'm Dusting Off That Drugstore Dust.
Sep 4, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

June 2025

We Are an Industry of People Pleasers (And It Shows)
In defence of ideas that don’t beg.
Jun 2, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

May 2025

Brand I Wish I Created: Champagne Socialist
A dupe brand with better politics and humour than most of your friends.
May 13, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow
Not Every Brand Needs a Costume Change
Honestly, most rebrands should have been campaigns.
May 6, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

March 2025

Rebrand lessons from Pamela Anderson
PLT, take note.
Mar 11, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow
The Problem with Lifestyle Branding
You are not a thematic Barbie in a box.
Mar 5, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow
Lemons and Human Taste-Tested Dog Food
We are making London a strategically more sound place, one tube ad at a time
Mar 3, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

February 2025

F**k Coca Cola.
Small brand? Then stop taking dating advice from Coke.
Feb 19, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow
Reinventing Avon
When a rebrand won't cut it and you have to go bolder.
Feb 13, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow

January 2025

Rebranding The Body Shop
From Performative Eco-Warrior to Happy, Juicy, Sexy.
Jan 28, 2025 • Deniz Cikis-Ludlow
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