Wieden+Kennedy
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Also known as: W+K, W+K London, W+K Portland, Wieden, Wieden+Kennedy Portland
- Do Reply; Use plain language, and tell the truth … In a panic, they try to pull the plug.” ↩︎ That said, even now, I get anxious even thinking about the time Dan Wieden, most well-known for Just …
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … When I worked at Wieden+Kennedy, my copywriter CD partner would occasionally moan about not being able to remember the brilliant line or idea he'd had from …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still
- Three Things … I met a bunch of great ones working near TV in London, and again in Portland when I was at Wieden+Kennedy. Because the schedule and moving parts …
- Take your time reading this one … through Code for America and at the State of California; my time at Wieden+Kennedy, an ad agency, and… opinions about advertising; what it’s like to have …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … Once, back when I was a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy, an intern asked me how I came into that role and how my career had developed. I …
- Breaking the rules … exactly the kind of video-conferencing type installation I was totally behind at Wieden, wanting some sort of always-on window into another office: what is it like …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … This is pretty much a long way of saying what we already knew when I was at Wieden and working on the Facebook account. People didn't *like …
- Netflix Should … Ideas like this came up every so often in my advertising life at Wieden+Kennedy Portland. They fit the brief of a "digital" thing that does something, meets …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … We'd been invited by Niantic's VP of Partnerships to come in - I was busy working with a team at Wieden designing a massively multiplayer global local …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … But when I left Wieden Portland, one of the issues was that if the agency *really* wanted to figure out what its potential role in "digital" could be …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … I get to call it "non-traditional" because at Wieden+Kennedy, when I joined the headquarters office in Portland, I landed in the "Creative" department, but was put …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … now are still bits-of-the-future that aren't evenly distributed yet. Wieden+Kennedy, the ad agency that I was working at, had only last year transitioned …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … I AM ONLY THINKING OUT LOUD, NO ONE TELL ANYONE AT WIEDEN ABOUT THIS BUT IF YOU WERE IN THE LODGE YOU SHOULD TOTALLY SET UP A RNN …
- On Advertising. Again. … Which was part of why, toward the end of my time at Wieden, while I was looking at a whole bunch of close friends in different organisations - not …
- Celestial Emporium; Algorithmic Copyright; Up And To The Right; More Empathy; Terms … 5.0 Terms I bumped into a recruiter who used to work at Wieden+Kennedy, the last (and only) ad agency that I worked at and we were …
- Any Old Iron … unusable for a month - I'M LOOKING AT YOU, CERTAIN ACCOUNTS IN THE WIEDEN+KENNEDY PORTLAND OFFICE). I digress: solutions are big things, and the problem with using …
- Stock; Two Thoughts … Structure; The Thing About People - this one was about a piece of working I was doing - one of the first pieces of consulting work I did post-Wieden …
- Just No; Don't Do That, Either; Seeing Like The Internet … The second trend is essentially "hey, have you heard of Buzzfeed and Vice", ie "native advertising" to which one of my experiences at Wieden when trying to work …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … I saw this at my time with Wieden - there were certain clients who would quite happily noodle away on a brief for, say, a stupendously large sporting event …
- Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things … of me that wants to go full on about Russell's aside about Wieden's thinking that they've solved brand advertising by cutting it up and putting …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … piece of personal experience comes from what it was like to work at Wieden+Kennedy. The thing about Wieden - and I speak knowing nothing about *other* agency cultures …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … from the taste of Phil Knight and the partnership with my ex-employer Wieden+Kennedy that used Nike and advertising and communications to be the *idea* of a …
- The Thing About Brand Advertising … Sometimes, this would involve doing or making a new thing, and that's invariably where the wheels would come off, especially at a place like Wieden. You see …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital?
- It's Too Hot; Monitor This … There's a reason when I was at Wieden that when I wanted to do stuff like this the first thing I did was pick up the phone …
- Depth, Not Breadth … the trade-off that I could start to see at a place like Wieden+Kennedy - and admittedly, it's a very different place than a digitally focussed agency …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … to Karl the Fog, and bumping into a bunch of ex-colleagues from Wieden+Kennedy, doing the same day trip that I used to do to present to …
- Thinking In Public; Writing In Public … I started the year knowing that I was unhappy at Wieden and that things weren't quite working out. And in all the times that I had tried …
- What The Network Does; How Do You Solve A Problem Like TED; Not A Career, A Careen … do you have any advice about getting into an agency like Wieden+Kennedy? And I would say: well, I don't really think what I did was replicable …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … I first got an invitation a long time ago when I was working at Wieden+Kennedy, and it didn't feel like something that could work unless a …
- Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds … In a way, that was the plan I had with Wieden+Kennedy: the chance to do big things on a massive scale with giant clients. For lots of …
- 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03 … So whilst I do travel more frequently than when I did when I was working at Wieden - the last eight weeks or so have involved flying somewhere pretty …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … When I joined Wieden, there was part of that aspect of discovering new bits of culture and bringing them to the rest of the world - indeed, it even …
- Clarity; The Customer … Because, when you get to the heart of it, 1980s era Wieden+Kennedy assuredly did make things that fit in holes made for advertising. They just didn't …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … I used to think that my former employer, Wieden+Kennedy, was close to Pixar in terms of culture, and after reading Catmull's book, I'm not as …
- Structure; The Thing About People … Day-to-day, at Wieden, you might never really interact with people outside of your account group; certainly when I started and found myself immersed in the Nike …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … to bring my employer into the mix, but here's the quick background. Wieden+Kennedy is an independent advertising agency, one of the award winningest in the world …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … If you wanted to be uncharitable about *me*, you could easily have called me a digital ninja back when I joined Wieden+Kennedy. Thankfully, the agency I work …
- The Difficulty; Listless Interestingness … For Pixar, Apple and Wieden+Kennedy, they're all founded by idealistic yet capitalistic hippies. They share, roughly, the same notion that money is important, because it's …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Now, Nike's a client of my employer - and I worked on the Nike account as interactive creative director when I arrived at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, and also …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … This is me after four years in advertising and Wieden+Kennedy land, but I'm desperate to know: what's the world's first viable VR brand going …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … My friend Minkette is a game designer at Wieden+Kennedy (we used to work together at Six to Start) and is keeping a game diary: http://minkette.wordpress …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … I've spent coming up to two years working on the Facebook account at Wieden+Kennedy, and I'm not going to talk about anything that's not …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … The ones that do stand out to me are ones like Pixar and my current place of work at Wieden+Kennedy. When I was busy prepping for my …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … This is all part of the thinking that I've been doing in the background during my time at Wieden+Kennedy. At work, there's a tremendous amount …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … When I first interviewed at Wieden+Kennedy (W+K), I didn't really know anything about them other than the fact that they'd just hired Iain Tait …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … I've been working in capital-A advertising for nearly over 3 years now - just under a year at Wieden+Kennedy London, and coming up to 3 years …
- The Short One … interactive) creative director working on the Facebook account at Facebook's advertising agency, Wieden+Kennedy. Today, Facebook Creative Labs announced Paper [1], their newest app. We had a …