Wieden + Kennedy’s tactical ad featuring Wayne Rooney breaks this morning, the day of England’s World Cup match against Sweden. It’s made a bit of a stir – front page on the national newspapers, also appearing as a centre spread souvenir poster in the Sun and the Guardian.

There’s a bit of a tradition in England of hanging a flag out your window to support the national team. So we made ourselves a wee flag to hang out of our office window.

Coverage from the Mail and the Mirror:

Wieden + Kennedy was privileged yesterday to welcome graphic design legend Chip Kidd, who had kindly agreed to visit and give us a talk about his life and work. Chip is associate art director at Knopf, an imprint of Random House, and is responsible for hundreds of famous and groundbreaking book jacket designs.

As well as a brilliant designer he’s a talented writer and witty, entertaining speaker. Damn these polymaths. The talk was entitled: ‘Chip Kidd takes up an hour of your life you will never get back’ or ‘There is a style gland that turns malignant in

Nevada

(Above: Chip talking in our foetid basement.)

You can visit Chip’s website at http://www.goodisdead.com/