W+K London

March 8, 2011

Pause for building work

With the building refurb in full swing and deskless souls wandering round the office, we've decided to use this opportunity to pause the OFF-ON pilot for a few weeks and develop it further.

We're going to work with the feedback we received from our UCL anthropologists and progress the tech side of things, with a plan to relaunch the project next month.

All being well, our ambition is to get the pilot up and running in other W+K offices in the near future.

In terms of our progress to date, we're doing pretty well.

Despite an increase of 50 staff over the past year, our electricity consumption is still significantly down.

Here's a graph plotting our monthly bills during the pilot against monthly bills last year (with kWh up the y axis):

Any ideas on ways to develop this are, as always, very welcome.

We'll keep you posted on our progress.

March 8, 2011

welcome to optimism, gavin

Culture

This week we welcome Gavin Gordon-Rogers to the wonderful world of Wieden.
Here's who he is:

Gavin initially started out directing music videos, then got into advertising by freelancing at numerous traditional agencies from 1996, until he joined Glue in 2002. In March 2005 he moved to Agency Republic, and in February 2007 he became Creative Director there. Gav became Executive Creative Director the following year. Various publications voted Agency Republic the best digital agency in the years that followed. Five times, in fact.

He's got a blog. And he describes himself as a 'mutant farmer' on Twitter.

And now he's here, doing many things of an Interactive Creative Direction nature. He''s also going to be Andy Cameron's 'lieutenant' (the uniform is in the wash at the moment)