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Madison World launches a brand refresh
Mumbai: Madison World, India’s largest homegrown diversified communication group, yesterday on its 36th Anniversary announced a brand refresh.
Madison World executive director Lara Balsara Vajifdar said, “We have always been pioneers in the realm of innovation and ideation. Our brand-new look and feel encapsulates our evolution and growth over the years yet retaining some of our core values”.
The new branding is a testament to the Agency’s commitment to staying at the forefront of the Advertising & Media industry. It is minimal, yet powerful; modern, yet timeless; sharp, yet approachable.
The new identity has distilled the company’s essence into a visual language that speaks volumes about who we are and where we’re headed.
The centre piece of the new branding is the logo – a sleek, geometric design that symbolizes precision, creativity and forward-thinking. Its clean lines and bold typography reflect the Agency’s dedication to cutting-edge ideas and transformative solutions. It’s not just a logo; it’s a statement – a bold declaration of the vision for the future.
The new brand identity goes beyond just a logo. It is a comprehensive set of guidelines that define how the Agency presents itself to the world. From colour palette to typography, from brand pattern to tone of voice, every element has been carefully curated to ensure consistency and coherence across all our communications.
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Fevicol releases its last ad campaign by the late Piyush Pandey
The adhesive brand’s last campaign by the late advertising legend Piyush Pandey turns an everyday Indian obsession into a quietly powerful metaphor
MUMBAI: Fevicol has never needed much of a plot. A sticky bond, a wry observation, a truth that every Indian instantly recognises — that has always been enough. “Kursi Pe Nazar,” the brand’s latest television commercial, is no different. And yet it carries a weight that no previous Fevicol film has had to bear: it is the last one its creator, the advertising legend Piyush Pandey, will ever make.
The film, released on Tuesday by Pidilite Industries, fixes its gaze on the kursi — the chair — and what it means in Indian life. Not just as a piece of furniture, but as a currency of ambition, a vessel of authority, and a source of quiet social drama that plays out in every home, office and institution across the country. Who sits in the chair, who waits for it, and who eyes it hungrily from across the room: the film transforms this sharply observed cultural truth into a narrative that is, in the best Fevicol tradition, funny, warm and instantly familiar.
The campaign was Pandey’s idea. He discussed it in detail with the team before his death, but did not live to see it shot. Prasoon Pandey, director at Corcoise Films who helmed the commercial, said the team needed five months to find its footing before they felt ready to shoot. “This was the toughest film ever for all of us,” he said. “It was Piyush’s idea, magical as always.”
The emotional weight of that responsibility was not lost on the team at Ogilvy India, which created the campaign. Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha, group chief creative officers at Ogilvy India, described the process as “a pilgrimage of sorts, on the path that Piyush created not just for Ogilvy, but for our entire profession.”
Sudhanshu Vats, managing director of Pidilite Industries, said the film was rooted in a distinctly Indian insight. “The ‘kursi’ symbolises aspiration, transition, and ambition,” he said. “Piyush Pandey had an extraordinary ability to elevate such everyday observations into iconic storytelling for Fevicol. This film carries that legacy forward.”
That legacy is considerable. Over several decades, Pandey’s partnership with Fevicol produced some of the most beloved advertising in Indian history, building the brand into something rare: a household name that people actively enjoy watching sell to them.
“Kursi Pe Nazar” does not try to be a tribute. It simply tries to be a great Fevicol film. By most measures, it succeeds — which is, in the end, the most fitting send-off of all.
