For the annual wieden + kennedy christmas bash, we journeyed up by bus to a group of cottages in the Cotswolds. Because we were so far from home, everyone had to stay the night, which meant things got a bit messy.

Here’s Santa, who brought a big sack of presents.

Nat was very happy with the T-shirt Santa brought.

Sophie, who is one half of a pirate rapping duo, got a parrot.

Santa with his little helpers, Claire and Katie.

The agency ‘talent’ show produced some strange sights.

Neil live in concert:

Stuart Smith’s strange performance involved illuminating bits of his body in time to some cheesy organ music.

Stu Harkness in lycra and heels.

Boffey and Claire do Robbie and Kylie:

Stu and Katie going for it:

The crowd went wild.

John Jay was Creative Chief of our Tokyo office and is now based in Portland as global CD. It’s his birthday. David Liu writes:

My son Mikko just turned 4 this past Friday. Ever since he was two, when he would occasionally come to the Tokyo office and sometimes meet John, the kid had it in his mind that papa’s workplace was called John Jay. Since I told him that’s who I worked for, he would ask in the morning, “are you going to John Jay’s” or when I returned, “were you at John Jay’s?” A bit later, when he was three, he began one night saying goodnight to the city outside his 28th floor window, and a habit formed every night before sleep of saying goodnight to a growing list of objects, people, and places outside his window (from it we can see roppongi hills far, far away, and we told him that’s where the office was near). A common list of goodnights would be, “good night city, good night lights, good night combini, good night cars . . .” and within that list would be always, “good night john jay.” so here’s to you john, happy birthday and good night from tokyo from a little four year old.

http://www.zongy.org/good_night_johnjay.mov