This month in our tiny little
L-Gallery we have Nic Joly exhibiting his beautiful miniature model
people. 

Having
started out crafting playful little scenes around his home for his children to
stumble upon, making these little scenes soon turned into a passion and a way for him to comment on
how he sees the world. 

Nic says,  “As we go through the journey that
is our lives we come across situations and make observations about what we see
and feel. With my 'Underfoot' collection I strive to highlight my own
observations and thoughts about my journey, and things I have seen. Each
miniature sculpture work is framed in a museum quality, glass-fronted box
frame. These frames turn the works into small, well-hung pieces of theatre.”

We are loving Nic's work here at
W+K, and even more so since we found out he earned himself a Blue Peter
badge. (Not that we are jealous, of course.) 

You can
find more of his work at:

www.nicjolyunderfoot.com

www.facebook.com/NicJolyUnderfoot

In exciting news, I have helped out on a
bit of brief writing. To be inserted into the actual process of producing ads is
very exciting. Super exciting, in
fact, bolded font and everything. Good to get my hands dirty as the placement goes on.

This week I have also been getting stuck in
to a few strategic problems that the other planners are working on. Some of them are really
tough – not in the sense that they are unfathomably complex, but rather that
the issues involved are subtle and delicate. 

As is probably obvious, the more of the actual job I see + do, the more my idea of it evolves. For example, I'd assumed at the beginning that the job was nearly all research, and underestimated the degree to which a planner has to be creative. It’s a kind of craft all to itself.

I also had a Christmas Lunch with the other
planners, which was jolly good fun. Very sedate.

'Til next week, folks!

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(Thoughts courtesy of Planning Placement newbie James.)