Richard left us last week and in a gesture typical of the man he decided to cook everyone lunch as a leaving present. 

When he first joined Wieden's he was affectionately known as Beanie, because of his hair colour, so lunch consisted of:

Beans
Posh Beans
Cheesy Beans
Fucking Posh Beans
Spicy Fucking Posh Beans
Spicy Cheesy Beans

All proceeds went to Breast Cancer Care.

Graphics, natch.

Product shot, natch.

ECD looking mad, natch.

Despite Colman's glum expression in the photo above, it was really nice to sit down and all have lunch together. We should do that more often.

Tonight is the night that ghosties and ghoulies walk the earth and this has not gone unnoticed at W+K. We had a halloween bake-off to capture the splendid trophy pictured above. There were some fiendishly delicious creations:

Note the attention to detail on those recession-themed gravestones: 'RIP Long Lunches'. 'Expense accounts RIP'.

The cakes were sold to raise money for charity and in the end the judges voted Emma's spectacular decapitated Barbie the winner, on grounds of both aesthetics and taste.

Our inspiration wall has also gone all topical: