W+K PORTLAND

Walenga hates food

This is Walenga. He doesn't like food. Well not all food - but most food. Here's the proof:

http://foodswalengahates.tumblr.com/

Two for one

FITC (Flash in the Can) held a contest this year for female developers. The criteria was to make a video of why you want to go to FITC. The prize? An all access pass to the FITC event held in Toronto, Canada. Our candidate was Laurie Brown and she was awarded an all access pass. Congrats! Laurie had a very special guest Cari VanderYacht in her video and it seems that the FITC judges were "impressed" with her also but weary of her being "unattended."

From: Shawn Pucknell
Date: March 27, 2009 5:14:24 PM PDT
Subject: Females at FITC
Greetings,

Thank you for submitting a video!

You are in the first 100, and therefore have a festival ticket to FITC

Toronto 2009!

(PS. Cari can come too if she wants. Just shoot us her email. and have someone with her to supervise her. We are not sure she should be unattended at a public event. )

Tokyo to London on WK Radio

This week on WK Radio: Tokyo Lab brings us a WK Radio exclusive: The ridiculously hot new mix by artist, ‘Jemapur’. Featuring artists like Fennesz, Modeselektor, Sutekh, Funkstorung, and Jay Haze, as well as original productions by Jemapur, the sound goes from far-out experimental to rich downtempo to warehouse dance party in a smooth, expertly crafted mix. Check out the WK Radio calendar for air times. Also this week, London’s playlist “Wherewolves of London”; DJ Zia Rescue; plus mouch more.. www.wk.com/radio

Economy Down. Creativity Up.

If you were lucky enough to find the key to the shackles that connect you to your desk and get out for some lunch, you might have seen this sweet ride. Commander n' Chief of this mother ship was making an arch across the universe while literally singing "Singing in the Rain" while his co-pilot deputy officer Monkey Puppet covered the backing vocals. Never again will free time be wasted on Zelda and nachos.

Let It Shine

Check out the latest Honda work created by W+K Amsterdam. The spot was created by Zach Watkins, Craig Melchiano and Mark Sloan and creatively directed by Jeff Kling, John Norman and Sue Anderson and is meant to reinforce Honda's position as a leader in automotive hybrid technology.

And the 'Making of':

24/7 Concert at WK

This past weekend was the 24/7 concert at WK. It was a huge success drawing so many people that some had to be turned away. Many stayed for the big finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Mathew Carroll is quoted as having "goosebumps" from the performance.

Photo: Aaron Lee

Here is a small news clip from KGW local News channel 8 about the event.

KGW 8 News report on 24/7 concert
Thanks to everyone who helped make this event a success.

The Mayor of Blessingtown

Today we celebrate Tom Blessington's 47th birthday. Tom is our Managing Director and a devout NY Jets fan. Robin Rosenberg seized the moment to flex her cake making muscle. WK5 made a site of known Blessington quotes. Definitely worth a look. There is some deep fried gold in there.

http://www.giem.com/blessingtonisms Happy Birthday Tom.

I know you are just doing your job

Welcome to the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. A gentrified area of the city that is home to Wieden+Kennedy. Lots of new lofts, shops and businesses have made this part of the city full of activity. Along with this activity and commerce comes the canvasser. Greenpeace, voting initiatives, solicitations for a myriad of social movements and non-profits. All of these causes are valid and important to the world we live in. There's just something about the way some of these folks choose to make their statement. With Whole Foods a mere block away, a large majority of us go there for lunch and whatnot daily. Powell's Books is pratically a library of all kinds of printed materials that are indispensable for feeding our creative minds. To get to either of these places from W+K, you have to cross "The Canvas Zone". Sometimes a person can get "Greenpeaced" 4 or 5 times a day. Dealing with this day in and day out can be unnerving when you simply want to get something to eat.

The founders of the Pearl District Philanthropic Society have made a small business card you can employ when approached by someone canvassing for their cause. The card simply states:

I know you’re just doing your job,

but the methods you’ve been asked to use are manipulative and make me less trustful of friendliness in general

and that, not indifference towards your cause, is why I’m not going to talk to you.

These cards are available at the front desk as you leave the building. As well as public notices in elevators. Equip yourself with a card as you leave the building. If you are approached by someone asking you to save the whole world, simply hand them a card. Go have lunch and have a nice day.

24/7

By mid-March, the United States will have been at war in Afghanistan and Iraq for seven years. To mark this important, if tragic, anniversary, over 150 of the Portland area's best classical, contemporary and world musicians are uniting to make a giant musical gift to the city and beyond.

"24/7” is a series of 24 dramatic concerts, each starting upon the hour, from 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 21, and continuing through to 7:00 p.m., Sunday, March 22, in the W+K Atrium.

FREE.

WK Radio will broadcast a portion of the event.
Poster: Tony Frusciante

Click here for more information.

If you want to be a partner at W+K, you've got to be some kind of saint and some kind of crazy.

Let's start with the facts.
Wieden + Kennedy, as you know, has five partners.


They are Dan Wieden, Dave Luhr, Susan Hoffman, Bill Davenport and John Jay.
(Not necessarily in order of importance.)


Wieden + Kennedy has not added a partner for nearly 13 years.
We are aware that 13 years is a long time. We are also aware 13 is an auspicious number.


So....drum roll....we are pleased to announce not one, but TWO NEW PARTNERS.




They are Tony Davidson and Kim Papworth!






The press release: "If you want to be a partner at W+K, you've got to be some kind of saint and some kind of crazy," said Dan Wieden, CEO. "No one exemplifies that more profoundly Tony and Kim. They have raised the bar, broken rules, lifted hearts and shocked the world. There is no office, anywhere, more loved and respected than W+K London."