W+K PORTLAND

Brain Candy

A group of folks from Google came to WK and created a mini version of the famous Google Campus here in the atrium. During the morning, we checked out the applications and talked with the techs from Google on subjects ranging from map navigation to rich media. In the afternoon, we broke into account teams and brainstormed on how to make our wildest interactive dreams a reality.

A huge candy wall didn’t hurt to lure us out of our usual daily activities to fully enjoy the Googleness. There was also a drawing for some Bluetooth Jawbone headsets.

Coraline is the People's Voice

From Renny Gleason:

W+K is this year's "People's Voice Winner" and "Webby Award Winner" for 'Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics' for the Coraline website developed for the Laika feature film. The "Webby Award" is awarded by a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. The "People's Voice Winner" is chosen by the community-at-large through an open ballot.

You may remember the Coraline premiere a few months back. This post has all of the collateral pieces made for the movie and more importantly all of the people who worked on the project to make it a great success.

View the website here: Coraline.com

Renny talks to Ted

Ever go for a jog and talk to yourself. When Renny does, he says things like "societal/cultural implications/impact of mobility." Renny Gleeson is the Director of Digital Strategies here at WK and recently spoke at the Ted Conference in Long Beach. Check out his clip on the topic mobile devices and the expectation of availability. Get some more Renny on his site, http://www.wk.typepad.com.

Our New Blog

The W+K blog began three years ago as a fun side project in the Studio. And it was great and we all loved it. But the WWW is a cruel place and our blog quickly grew into a giant ugly monster. So we killed it.

Today we launched our new blog. The URL is now: http://blog.wk.com.

Thanks to Rob Kendall, Tony Frusciante, Trent Johnson, Scrappers and Scott Kleiner for working hard to make this happen.

W+K 3G

This morning Apple released the iPhone 3G and about half the agency the entire agency blew off work to go get one.

We don't mean to toot our iHorns, but we are one of the first agencies (if not the first) to have an iPhone application available today.

The CareerBuilder.com Jobs application allows you to search for jobs in the vicinity of where you’re standing, or in other cities. While we collaborated with our client on some of the aspects of the development, we're proud to say that all of the designs and a major portion of the development was done by W+K’s Creative Development team.

iCongratulations to everyone involved – it was one of those projects where everyone who itouched it had a significant impact on the final product. If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, check it out.

The Webby's

Last week, our creative work was honored by The Webby's, one of the most prestigious award shows for interactive work. It's judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an organization whose members include David Bowie, Richard Branson, Matt Groening and Arianna Huffington.

This year, over 10,000 creative projects were submitted from over 60 countries. There are two types of awards, Honorees and Nominees, awarded across categories, from websites to banner campaigns to webfilms. An Honoree represents work that finished in the top 15% of that category. A Nominee signifies work that sits among the top 5 in that category.

With a total of 6 campaigns awarded, we are among the most awarded agencies anywhere. This is an exciting honor and a great recognition of our efforts to push forward in this space.

Nominees/Category:
Nike Zoom Integrated Campaign: Integrated Campaigns
Nike Women’s World Cup Interactive: Online Campaigns
Nike iD Team Elite II Shoe Configurator

Honorees/Category:
Nike Team Elite II: Banner Campaigns
Nike Zoom Quick is Deadly Webfilms:
Branded Content Old Spice: Experience
Old Spice: Beauty and Cosmetics

You can view the rest of the Honorees and Nominees by clicking here.

The Nominees have a chance to win one of two awards - the People's Choice
Award and the Webby Award. You can vote for the People's Choice Awards here.

NIKE love

Chalk up another Nike mini-site for W+K Interactive: Nike Love - promoting Nike's program to prevent childhood obesity, Nike Go.

Watch three short films about the love of sport, and send a message to a
friend.

Nike+ New Year's Resolution

Loose ten pounds, quit smoking, take up a hobby, stop drinking so much, take dancing lessons, eat right, drink more often. Whatever your new years resolution, what is going to make you keep it? Nike+ can help you out.

Bobbing for Lobsters

The magic and/or process of advertising can happen very quickly. Here is a comp for the mechanical bull video to help convey the idea on a pitch.
Below is the finished product.
Mechanical Bull

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Ice Princess

AD: Jayanta Jenkins
CW: Burks Spencer
PRODUCERS: Jessica Staples, Felicia Glover
CD(s): Mike Folino/Steve Luker
MEDIA: Alex Barwick, Nikki Barlett-Stein, Christy Ruiz; Tim Switzer

Starbucks Salon

Straight out of WK Studio! Designed, Illustrated and programmed right here. Interface Designer: Paul Bjork, Programming: Laurie Brown, Art Direction: Brad Trost, Copy Writers: Andrew Dickson and Jed Alger, and Interactive Producer: Bev Davis. The Starbucks Salon is a nomadic interactive coffeehouse, gallery, and performance venue rolled into one. The current salon event is Fashion Week in New York City. Showcasing music, spoken word and visual artists in different mediums. Salon is free to the public on a first come first serve basis. The site is an interactive event calendar, information guide and portrait drawing tool where you can upload any photo and draw a protrait. Submitted portraits to the site will be posted on the walls of the salon durring the event.

Go to StarbucksSalon.com and get busy slinging some ink in the portrait project section.