We had a visit from Moray McLennan of M&C Saatchi today, in his capacity as IPA President. Despite my comments on this blog about the wisdom of associating the IPA with The Ivy, he was good enough to venture over to the east end for a coffee in the less salubrious environs of Dray Walk. He’s keen to reach out to a variety of agencies to discuss what the IPA can and should do for them, which can only be a good thing.

By the way, just look at the upgrade in the quality of photography above, courtesy of my new Nokia N95. (Yes, shameless plug because we are now down to the last three for lead creative agency worldwide on the Nokia pitch.)

Here is one of our recent Guardian ads, currently running in the UK:

And here is an ad that just appeared in Greece:

Chris Koutsokous sent me this. He says:

Lifo is a free press paper as far as I know, because i’ve done some research they did that in-house so there is no advertising agency involvement.

As for the translation:

You can learn a lot from other people’s opinions.

Especially when they have the opposite perspective.

Talk, discuss, write everything you believe.

New media is you.

And you are all the others.

Athens. Thank you.

That’s it. Wieden + Kennedy London is now boycotting ouzo and taramasalata.