welcome to optimism

life on the ocean wave

News just in on summer in Finland. Official results: "It's the best!"

We're here for a Nokia catch-up, plus a bit of boat and sauna action.

Chesters and Owen prepare for cruising in the sunshine from Helsinki harbour.

A few hours later, they cling to the boat, lashed by icy gales and towering waves. Chesters grimaces, Nic does his best Captain Haddock impersonation, picks pieces of albatross from beard.

Chesters: unbowed. Owen has possibly fallen into the water.

Team on the good ship Venus.

Taking a break from his exhausting schedule (scrimshawing the whalebone, polishing the cannon, etc), Nic demonstrates ability to nap anywhere, in any conditions.

four finger challenge

The bet was: could Paul Colman eat a four finger Kit-Kat in its entirety in 30 seconds or less?

The result: not even close. More like 60 seconds. But, who knows, there could be a campaign in this for  Kit-Kat: so full of goodness and nourishment that it'll probably take you at least a minute to cram one down your gullet.

expenses scandal

Global finance director Claudia laughs in the face of recession, goes right ahead and orders the lobster pasta.

Claudia and UK Finance Director Bronwen toast the joy of the Excel spreadsheet.

planning spec-off

Michael may have the bigger glasses, but Liana's take up a larger portion of her face.

freddie powell's future life: the collage

One of our creatives, Freddie Powell, has planned out his future life plan in the medium of collage. Here it is. Highlights to which Freddie is looking forward include: nice mews house pied-a-terre and a big Tudor-style place in the country, a Porsche (no Honda?), mystery faceless wife, some palm trees and a Belstaff jacket.

He's got big dreams. He wants fame. Well fame costs. And right here at W+K is where he starts paying... in sweat.

Look, Sharps.

Please join us in welcoming creative artworker Paul Sharps to Wieden + Kennedy. Paul has freelanced
with us for 3 weeks and today he has joined us. Nice.

meet Laura and Katie

Laura McGuaran joins us today to work on Honda and Nike as an Account Executive.

Laura is fresh from the hallowed halls of BBH where she's been knee deep in the world of Vodafone and Dame Judi Dench voiceovers.  We do like a bit of Dame Judi every now and then.

 

And this is Katie Martin, who has joined us for a few months on the Nokia team.  Hurrah!

She's fresh in from the land of the long white cloud (that'll be New Zealand, so obviously knows Cheryl) and was most recently at Publicis Mojo enjoying the free booze from Pernod Ricard.

sinclair's street style

We're a stylish lot here at W+K. Latest trend-setter to be spotted by the cool-hunters of Shoreditch is our very own Michael Sinclair, pictured here outside the agency in the current issue of Wallpaper.

 
Jacket by Man at C&A, coffee by Fairtrade, glasses by Mega-Bins of Spitalfields. Hair: model's own.

it's simon's birthday

niklas is new

Please welcome Niklas Wahlberg, another member of our growing scandinavian contingent.

He joins us from Stockholm where for the last four years he was a Creative Director at Lowe
Brindfors, working mainly on Saab. (You know, the car that architects drive.) Prior to that, he was CD at Cloud Nine and prior to that, Framfab. Basically, he's been stirring it up big time in all things digital.