W+K Late Night

Product Design is the New Advertising

Prove It.

The City Golf League wants to be a national network of public golf leagues. It's cool because ALL of the league stats are recorded and kept on their website. So when you have a great round, you can send all of your friends links to your scorecard. I'm sure they will appreciate that.

This is the book that WK12 made for the CGL. The cover photograph is by Portland photographer Martin Thiel.

Para Mi

W+K Ant

Kennedy + Wieden

Just Do It, Greg.

Today the world's largest 'get well' card made its way back into the Wieden lobby after its tour of high school football games, the Nike campus, Pioneer Square and an elementary school.

Portlanders have left many well wishes on the 8 foot high card (with a few 'you sucks' lamely sprinkled in. Talk about kicking a man while he's down) I added my name in one of the remaining white spaces.

It looks like a couple of new panels arrived today to be hinged onto the card. I wonder how far we can stretch this thing out? It is already starting to take on the appearance of some kind of war memorial.

OK, so Greg Oden, out for the season... My reaction was obviously one of sadness, but not of total loss. I think the kid has the right attitude and work ethic to get himself back into the swing of things. He already made a few lighthearted remarks on his video blog, so I know his head is on straight and he is gonna make this happen.

As for the fate of the Blazers for this season, I think they are going to be competitive. Maybe not a playoff team at this point, but I think they will be in the hunt. LaMarcus Aldridge is going to have a great season, and add that to what we can expect from B-Roy in his sophomore campaign... I like it a lot. There are plenty of compelling storylines to pull us Blazermaniacs into the Rose Garden.

Can't wait for camp to open!

Advertising Graffiti

As 12 was attempting to present ideas to the Career Builder team, there was an incredible commotion filling up the building from the atrium. We shouted our ideas while the drums banged, and then they would suddenly stop, leaving us shouting into the silent space for two or three words.

It was a great moment to kind of capture the beauty and chaos of the W+K building and culture. A place where meetings never start on time, tangents are valued and a thrashing drum/spray paint duet could manifest itself at any time.

The graffiti action art was created by visiting artists David Choe and Saber.

Juliette + The Licks

The actress Juliette Lewis stopped by Wieden on Monday to play a lunchtime concert in the Atrium with her band Juliette and the Licks. There was dancing, clapping and even a special moment shared between Juliette and world renowned author David Neevel.

It's hard to get any work done when there are 10 amps set up in your office. Thanks WK Lunchbox series!!

Midnight Madness

The hoops court at the heart of Wieden + Kennedy saw an intense series of Bump games last Saturday at midnight.

The victories were spread around pretty well. And when you sprinkle in some cursing and a few dejected ball punts, you have yourself a classic evening of the schoolyard classic.

Special props are in order for Chris 'Triples' Gibson on his first ever Bump championship. (the rest of us must have been pretty damn tired for a thing like that to happen...)

I jest, for the man quickly mastered the his technique and effectively utilized the 'bump technology' in his favor, to the dismay of many a flailing competitor.