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Another round of minimalism served with a helping of heavier patterns this week, with work from Hamburg, Monterrey, and New York. Ali Cola by loved / thjnk Ali Cola is a protest soft drink by Aydin Umutlu created in 2013, in part, in response to comments by German politician Thilo Sarrazin who argues that intelligence is inherited and that people of color have less of it. This is the second, more ambitious iteration of Ali Cola — this is the first — that brings six different “skin” colors of the same cola to demonstrate that the exact same thing can be perceived differently because of its color. The design by Hamburg, Germany-based loved and thjnk does a fantastic job in creating a striking package that is bound to get the attention of the media for its minimal and