Do you recognise this man?

He followed someone into our Wilkes Street office yesterday and was caught on video. One of our laptops was stolen from the desk shown below at exactly the time this man gained entry to the office and, judging from the video footage below, it looks like this gentleman may be able to help the police with enquiries in connection with the theft.

He comes into the building, tailgating someone who has unlocked the door, and sits by the door, apparently to case the joint. First of all he checks out the laptop by the window but that's secured and not easily removable. At around 1.10 he goes over to one of our desks and, concealed by the pillar, seems to put something in his carrier bag. Then he makes a swift exit. When our staffer returned to the same desk a few minutes later, his laptop was missing.

Clearly there are lessons here for us about our security measures, and this just shows how vigilant people need to be in any office open to the street.

This guy may be local and known in the neighbourhood, so if anyone reading this recognises him, in his Nike Airmax T-shirt (how aggravating is that, given that Nike is a client), then we'd love to hear from you. If you have a business in the area you may want to watch out for him.

And, if this is you in the video, and there's an innocent explanation for what you were doing in our office, then please let us know and of course we'll take down the video.

Our resident Creative Researcher, Laura Barker, introduces the W+K fund she’s resurrected in London.

In Portland, back in the day, there used to be a prize called ‘Slime Mold’. I have no idea what that even means.

Sporadically people would submit creative ideas and a winner was chosen who then received some money towards something creative that they wanted to do.

Here at W+K London, our lovely management team has deemed to resurrect this fund.

The W+K London version is called the equally baffling ‘Spore Fund’.

So every month we invite the whole agency to submit an idea or creative project that has NOTHING to do with work. The winner is announced at our monthly agency meeting.

Then stuff gets made.

Whoop.

Stuff like:

Katie Anne Harrison’s saucy snapchat lookbook.

Katie put the money towards a project she was working on with a small independent lingerie brand ‘Miss Crofton’, and released a lookbook for the brands new collection exclusively via snap chat.

And Ollie Wolf’s directorial dreams in his film ‘At Dawn’.

Ollie Wolf’s dosh was put towards the production of his film ‘At Dawn’, a true story of WW2 engineer Michael Nash (who happens to be ex-Wiedener Rory Hill’s Grandad)

It’s been great to see these projects bought to life with a little help from the W+K purse.

Watch this space and we’ll keep you updated on what our talented bunch gets up to next.