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W+K diversifies into wallpaper design for SXSW

Guardian SXSW trade stand

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Guardian wallpaper at the SXSW trade stand

This year the Guardian had a large presence at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. We helped turn their trade stand as a place to relax and with a cafe serving tea and scones and somewhere to charge your laptop.

Guardian SXSW trade stand

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We also created these stickers with Andrew Bannacker who was the illustrator on the iPhone ad we made earlier in the year. Texas Monthly seemed to like them, which is nice because we wouldn't want to mess with Texas.

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Phoographs kindly taken by Blech and E Smith

Five gold things for W+K at British Telly Awards

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British Telly Awards last night.
We won 2 golds for Lurpak (Dairy and 60s cinema).
Gold for Nokia N8 Dot AKA 'World's smallest stop-motion animation'.
2 golds for Nike Write the Future.
Your correspondent Helen Foulder says:

We had a fun night.
The clients had fun.
We danced a lot.
Tony provided a running analysis of all the ads (like the director commentary on a DVD)
Rob Brydon made a joke about Rich and Mark.
Ray took her glasses off to go on stage.
Stu was the tallest man to collect an award.
I think we might have broken one of the awards.
Which we danced with.

Paul C also commented on the other-worldly softness of Laura McG's hands.

Congratulations, all.
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