Head of HR / office manager Nat Field proudly displays our Sunday Times 'Best Small Companies' Award. We came number 74 out of loads of entrants. Which is nice, but a bit of a drop from last year when we just missed the top 30. Our scores for 'well-being' let us down, possibly because of the new policy that involves daily sandblasting and corporate taunting for all human work units. This policy will be stepped up until people feel more well.

See – it says on the base, 'providing its people with an outstanding place to work'. So it must be true.

From left to right: Marie-Catherine Dupuy (TBWA, Paris) Feh Tarty
(Wieden Kennedy, London) Jureeporn Thaidumrong (JEH United, Bangkok)

W+K's Feh Tarty loves to party. So he's been judging the Andys Awards somewhere gorgeous and he's brought us back these pictures. Thanks, Feh.

From left to right: Hiroki Nakamura (DENTSU, Tokyo) & Feh

From left to right: David Eriksson (North Kingdom, Stokholm) Ted Royer (Droga5, NY)
Pete Favat (Arnold Worldwide, Boston) Andrew Keller (Crispin, Porter +
Bogusky, Boulder)

From left to right: Ted Royer (Droga5, NY) & Feh

Wait, there's more! There 's an interview with Feh over at ihaveanidea.

Amongst other things, Feh says:

I grew up in the States after moving from Liberia at seven years old.
Now even if you move to another country, you’re still raised in a
household of your home country. You don’t get to the States and forget
how to be a Liberian overnight. I lived in America but went home to
Liberia every evening. (laughs)

The entire time I wanted to do
architecture. Mainly because I wanted to go back to Liberia and work
there. I had even selected a shortlist of the places I wanted to go to
but before actually getting there, I got an Art scholarship from my
school so I decided I’d do that for the first year and switch back to
architecture. I didn’t end up doing that either. A friend of mine,
who’s actually in advertising now, told me about the Communications
Design program, so I decided to go that route. I minored in Film as
well in college because I just loved the whole art of making things...

I really like the way WK is structured, because I’ve always had sort of
a hang up about titles as it gets in the way of people working
together. When you work on a project here, you just get in a room and
everyone’s contributing and doing all the work. Obviously the CD leads
the project, and is the face of the creative to the client but the work
environment is very collaborative. If I were only to do a TV commercial
it wouldn’t be sufficient or satisfying. A lot of the projects that
excite me have to be bigger and have different avenues of execution,
and if it’s like that, there’s really no way I could do all that
myself. You need a lot of people contributing, and you need to let
people run away with stuff.

You can read the full interview here.