Category Archives: Fun Stuff

Winners of Portland’s High School Poetry Slam Competition Verslandia! Perform & Give Radio Interview


Last week, the students who won the Verslandia! 2013 slam poetry competition performed for the agency, and did an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)’s program Think Out Loud. Check out photos from the event and listen to their radio interview below. Continue reading →

W+Ker: Ken Rides Again

Portland’s Robin Rosenberg writes about the sometimes odd previous jobs of W+Kers, our own Ken Meyer’s history as a Zamboni driver, and how he came to drive the Portland Winterhawks’ “Fanboni” last week at the season playoffs. Continue reading →

W+K Holiday Decor Instagram Roundup

The W+K Studio loves to deck the halls for December, bringing a touch of the holiday spirit to everyone who passes through. Here’s a selection of some of the photos our employees, families and friends have snapped via Instagram.

To learn more about how the holiday decor was created, check out this W+K Studio blog post.

  1. chelseapg
  2. karenkoch
  3. mixtieme
  4. mprosenau
  5. poconnell7
  6. denishatown
  7. zoehoeltzel
  8. ssutantio
  9. shollowood
  10. shollowood
  11. jdjacobs
  12. wiedenkennedy

W+K Portland Gears Up for the Annual BTA Bike Commute Challenge

This month, W+K Portland is gearing up for the annual BTA Bike Commute Challenge. The BCC is “a friendly competition – workplace against workplace – to see who can bike to work more during the month of September” (via).

Employees are encouraged to log their miles on a daily or weekly basis, and at the end of the month the BTA tallies the trips and ranks all workplaces in size categories by the percentage of cycling commutes. W+K has participated in the BCC since 2005.

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Watch W+K’s Dan Viens Beat Jimmy Fallon in a Foot Race at SXSW

When W+K digital strategist Dan Viens challenges you to a race, you accept – even though you know you’re going to lose (you really don’t want to mess with Dan Viens)…and even if you’re television talk show host Jimmy Fallon.
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