After months of recruiting and interviewing contenders for WK Side, our scheme to bring in fresh talent from outside the advertising industry, we’ve finally chosen our first four.

They will start today – Monday, 26th September – and will be working with us for the next three months. They are complete novices to the advertising industry so we will be teaching them everything we know. And vice versa.

They’ll be working as team across a number of different tasks for existing/potential clients, agency and community based projects.

We’re really hoping that they will have an opportunity to actually work in some way with each and every one of us. (Arrrrrrrgh!)

Here’s a quick synopsis of who they are and a bit about their backgrounds.

Born and bred Essex boy who has a BA in Graphic Design.

He’s been working with Diabolical Liberties coming up with ideas for guerrilla marketing stunts.

He’s the cocky one of the group, with the gift of the gab and (apparently) an eye for the laydeez.

Tom Seymour

First class honours from Central St Martins College of Art and Design.

He’s a multi-talented graphic and product designer who won the OXO Peugeot Design Award 2003 plus other numerous awards for his giant post-it note table.

He’s also working with Tom Dixon on the development of his honeycomb light design and Wayne Hemingway on a project to re-design the Ubank vacuum cleaner.

http://www.hiddenart.com/news/interviews/tom-seymour

He’s the daddy of the group.

Orlando Sterling

First class honours degree in multi media graphic design.

Winner of the D+AD student award 2005 – Boomerang Anti-litter postcards

He’s the quiet, ‘deep thinker’ one in the group.

Welcome on board to the team and commiserations to all of you who applied but were unsuccessful.

Our team who have been managing this so far (Sam Brookes, Matt Berry, Matt Boffey, Nat Field, Lucy Collier and Darren Wright) have had an incredible experience being involved in this project. We all underestimated just how much inspiration and insight you can get from meeting such a diverse mix of people. All of whom knew more about W+K than we did and were all desperate to work here. (God knows why!)

Sarah Dagger-Nickson

Sarah started out working for ABC in Australia, writing and recording documentaries on Chile.

She then moved to the UK and has been involved in fashion and has even written a play for one particular brand which was launched in Harvey Nichols.