Welcome to Optimism

Forever Curious Spark Card Workshops

On Friday, two groups of W+Kers reunited with schoolchildren from Milllfields Community School and Newport Primary School at Chats Palace, Homerton, for the next installment of our Forever Curious workshops.

_56A9507

Over the course of two carefully crafted sessions inspired by some of our Spark Cards, kids teamed up with W+Kers to explore a series of workshops designed to encourage them to think creatively and let their imaginations run free. We created superhero versions of ourselves, played with parachutes, arranged flowers and created play dough sculptures.

It’s safe to say we W+Kers were humbled by the talent, insights and enthusiasm of our young buddies, who schooled us in rainbow looming, 80s hip hop and YouTube bloggers, amongst many other things.

The sheer amount of creativity, fun and joy we all experienced is hard to capture in words, so here are a few pictures from the day.

_56A9216

_56A9476

_56A9312

We’re really excited to see the results of our workshops come to life in an exhibition later this month. Watch this space!

_56A9789

New Week, New Starters

Happy Monday everyone! Let's kick off the week by welcoming in a whole bunch of newbies to the W+K fold.

Ben Milligan

This is Ben, our fab new Planning Director. Joining us from Saatchi’s, Ben has made a ton of really interesting work for a ton of great brands. He led the thinking on brilliant, multi-discipline campaigns for the likes of Nintendo, Toyota, BBC 6 Music, Uniqlo, and Selfridges. He was also the brains behind E4's famous Skins campaigns. Interesting fact – he’s a Leeds fan.

Francesca purvis

Frankie Purvis joins us from BMB where she spent 4 years working on everything from tights (Pretty Polly), tech (Microsoft), trains (East Coast), cheese (Dairylea) and chips (McCain).  She’s jumping aboard the good ship W+K as an Account Director. Apparently she has a terrible taste in music, so we look forward to hearing her playlist around the agency shortly.

Nicolas Jayr

Hot on the heels of Frankie is Nicolas Jayr who has joined as a new AM on 'Team Nike'.  Nic Jayr joins us from BBH where he spent 4 years working as an Account Manager on Google, Johnnie Walker and ASOS. Nic's from France and lived in Barcelona for 3 years and is a huge FC Barcelona fan. Bonjour Nic!

Kimberley Hammond

And finally, for now, Kimberley Hammond. She’s slotting into our fabulous PA department as a creative assistant. Some fun facts: during her Fine Art degree she spent most of her three years painting fried eggs, she’s obsessed with shiny paint and she’s grade 6 on the piano but can’t play a note.

Loading