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Muppets and puppies and paper, oh my. Check out last week’s posts from Delhi, Tokyo, London, W+K Studio, Amsterdam, W+K12 and Portland.

Portland – W+K Pups: Nemo

London – our new Cravendale campaign featuring Muppets

Amsterdam – Freezing+Kennedy

Delhi – All the pretty horses.

Tokyo – Tota these days…

W+K Studio – WKStudio and Ecotrust. Watercolor and the world.

W+K12 – David Terry, Director of Strategic Planning

And the .gif of the week…

via Tokyo – New Face in the Office

Nemo is a darling 7-month-old cuddly puppy that’s a favorite around the agency. He agreed to participate in this interview on the condition that he be named Dog of the Year; so, check out our interview with the #1 W+K Pup 2012.

Nemo’s a friendly dog whose favorite thing is jumping and greeting people, and going on walks. His favorite treat is peanut butter, and he can’t resist chewing slippers and playing with his squeaky ball.
 

His owner Rainier says he’s well-behaved, and at home he’s pretty mellow, but it’s a different story when he’s making friends with humans.

“He gets excited at people, and jumps and runs to them,” Rainier said. “He thinks they’re his BFFs.”
 

And Nemo has lots of BFFs at the agency. “He gets passed around a lot, and goes to a lot of meetings,” Rainier said. “It’s hard to find him, sometimes!”

When he’s not at work, he waits patiently at home on Rainier’s bed.
 

Nemo almost had a different name, his owner said: “I was thinking of Bullet, Simba or Nemo. Once I got him, Nemo fit.”
 

In addition to being named pup of the year, Nemo is also available as a spokesdog.
 

Chrysler

“It’s Halftime in America”

Share the video from the Chrysler YouTube channel and see how far across the country your Tweets and reshares reach.

Coca-Cola

“Superstition”

“Arghh”

“Catch”

You can replay highlights from the polar bears second screen experience on the Coca-Cola YouTube channel.

Hello, February. We’re excited to share details about tomorrow’s First Thursday showcase in the W+K Gallery. Dubbed “The 100 Show,” it features hundreds of original works of art from local and worldwide professional working artists, photographers, illustrators, painters and more.

Details of four pieces available for sale in the 100 $SHOW

Last year W+K Amsterdam hosted the 100EuroShow and this year we’re bringing the idea state-side. Here’s how it works: We asked artists to submit a 10” x 10” piece of art with no restrictions on medium. The art will be on display beginning February 2 and available for $100 purchase. $50 of each sale will be donated to MercyCorps and $50 will go back to the artist.

Huge thanks to everyone contributing to the show. We have over 900 pieces of art in the W+K Gallery ready to find a new home.

The 100 Show
Thursday, February 2
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Wieden+Kennedy

With refreshments and live music from Christopher Neil Young & Errick Lewis, Joe McMurrian and Paradise. Hope to see you here.

Get ready people, because the global roundups are back, and between art shows, behind the scenes snapshots, letterpressing, basketball games and breakdancing, our offices have been busy. Check out posts from Portland, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, W+K Studio and W+K 12 below.

Portland – W+K’s Tatum Shaw Exhibits Photography Art Show Etowah at First Thursday

London – Making a Rainbow

Amsterdam – Allergic to Poison Opening at GUNS & BUTTER

Tokyo – Lunch with…R.A.B. the world class B-boys

W+K Studio – Key to My Heart Card

W+K12 – WK 12isn’t just about being creative, it’s about…

And the .gif of the week…

via Lunch with…R.A.B. the world class B-boys

Last Thursday, W+K Portland opened its gallery doors for an exhibition by our own Tatum Shaw, a copywriter. We spoke to Tatum about the photographs of his family in Georgia, why being terrified probably means you’re making great art, and how the agency helped set him on his artistic path. Read our interview below, and come check out Tatum’s photography in the W+K Portland foyer until the end of this month.

Q: How did you first get into photography? How have your interests evolved?

A: I’ve taken tons of pictures since college. I’d always have a camera on me at parties, but I never really considered it making good photographs until I was in advertising school in Atlanta. I had an art direction class and learned about composition and that really led me to look at things in a whole new way. From there it was just me latching on to photographers I liked and trying to craft my work to get better.
 

Q: What is your W+K show about? What inspired you, and what moved you to create the pieces?

A: The show is called Etowah and it’s named after a river that runs through my hometown of Cartersville, Ga. I’ve always taken pictures of home when I’ve gone to visit over holidays or breaks, and after a couple of years I started to notice they were beginning to come together as a body of work that I liked, and so it just went on from there.

I was originally going to have this show feature some of my other photography, random shots I’ve taken over the years. But some friends suggested I show the ones of my hometown. Which was kind of terrifying because I consider those to be my most personal ones so it’s really scary to put them out there like this. But then I figured that since it was scaring me so much, it was probably a good idea.
 

Q: How has the W+K community supported your work?

A: I wouldn’t even have pursued photography had it not been for the inspiration, advice, and encouragement of the people in this place. Everyone has been so incredibly supportive over the years and are really great about offering me opportunities whenever they’ve come up.

I’m pretty lucky. This place is full of creative cheerleaders. And the resources for the show in here are just incredible. Peter Lindman is amazing and was nice enough to help me with the scanning, retouching and printing. Ademar helped put my name in for the show and his crew did a great job with the setup. And other coworkers have been nice enough to reblog my constant barrage of invites.
 

See more of Tatum Shaw’s work at tatumshaw.com. Etowah is on display in the W+K Portland foyer until the last week of January.

Thank you to everyone who’s read the blog this year. We’ve had a great time, and we hope you have to. As a token of our esteem, we’d like to give you a little something to stuff your digital stocking.

Here’s one of our favorite Wiedenisms, in gorgeous, hand-drawn, device background form, to grace the electronic devices of your choosing (especially if those devices are an iPhone, iPad or laptop computer).

Right-click and Save Link As to grab the files:

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In addition to reading us here on the blog, you can follow us on Twitter at @Wiedenkennedy, visit us on Facebook, or take a peek into our day to day activities in the Portland office on Instagram (username: wiedenkennedy).

Want to give us something in return? Comment and let us know what you’ve liked seeing over the past year, and what you’d like to see more of in 2012.

We hope you have a safe and happy holiday season, and we’ll see you next year.

This week, we’re happy to announce the appointment of four new agency partners: Portland Managing Director Tom Blessington, London Managing Director Neil Christie, Portland Executive Creative Director Mark Fitzloff and Global Interactive Executive Creative Director Iain Tait.

We celebrated the news in Portland with an all-agency meeting; a few photos, below.

The announcement was delivered to the agency in the form of a song written by W+K’s Matt Moore and Greg Rutter. Jarrod Higgins played the tuba interlude.

These four join Dan Wieden, Dave Luhr, Susan Hoffman, Bill Davenport, John Jay, Tony Davidson and Kim Papworth as agency partners of the global Wieden+Kennedy network.

David Kennedy bestowed the Portland trio with keys to the agency, and each said a few words, followed by a champagne toast.

Congratulations, Tom, Neil, Mark and Iain!

W+K Cares sent two groups out into the community to volunteer in November. Our digital production team headed to the Children’s Book Bank while HR and Broadcast Production spent the afternoon at the Oregon Food Bank.

For children in poverty, one of the biggest obstacles to literacy development is the scarcity of books in the home. While the ratio of books to children in middle-income neighborhoods is approximately 13 books to 1 child, the ratio in low-income neighborhoods is a mere 1 book to 300 children. The Children’s Book Bank narrows the book gap by providing the community with a place for families to donate the books their children have outgrown, moving thousands and thousands of books into the homes of kids in need. WK’s team of volunteers helped clean books and pack them into backpacks to be delivered to a handful of Portland children.

The Oregon Food Bank works with a cooperative network of regional food banks, partner agencies and programs to distribute emergency food to hungry families. In addition, they are working to fight hunger’s root causes through public policy, outreach and education. Our team was in charge of packing beans! There were Bean-Masters, Scoopers, Bag-holders, Twist-tiers, Box Packers, Pallet loaders, Box-Makers and Clean-up Crew. The entire group packed enough food to provide 11,727 meals for people in need.

A big thanks to all our volunteers. If you’re interested in volunteering at either of these facilities, further information is provided here: Oregon Food Bank, Children’s Book Bank