Magento 2 improves upon design localization and holiday scheduling compared to Magento 1.x. It uses a single package/theme/skin configuration instead of separate locale-specific skins. Themes can provide localized slogan and logo files, eliminating the need to duplicate static files. Themes also inherit from each other through unlimited levels, avoiding copy/paste of files. This allows simple localization of slogans as well as scheduling different designs for holidays while maintaining a single configuration across locales.