Yesterday W+K’s library played host to the amazing US artist Kina Grannis. She joined us over lunch to sing a few acoustic tracks from her new album.

You tube sensation (over 8 million views for the clip below) Kina is making huge waves in the States at the moment, so when we were offered an the opportunity to hear her play live in our office we jumped at the chance. 

Kina's voice totally blew us away and she is definitely one to watch.

Here's what she sounds like:

Wieden + Kennedy has scored 14 cyber lion shortlist nominations in the 2011 Cannes Festival.

Some lions, recently.

I think I have the W+K total correct at 14 cyber lion shortlist nominations in the 2011 Cannes Festival.

According to the Cannes website, the W+K nominations are:

W+K Portland – Nike Better World, Old Spice (x4), EA Duty Calls = 6

W+K Tokyo – Nike Run fwd; Nike WTF = 2

W+K Amsterdam – Nike WTF = 1

W+K London – Nokia N8, Honda Jazz, Nokia Own Voice (x2), Nokia Dot = 5

Total = 14

Here's the little film that explains the Nokia 'Own Voice' application, a collaboration with Glue Isobar and Starcut, which has had two of those nominations:

And there are also a couple of other things in which we had a hand…

Nokia N8 'Dot' for best sound design (entered by Wave Studios)

Nokia N8 'Dot' for animation (entered by Aardman animation)

Nike Grid for game (entered by AKQA)