October 2011
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Sharp FabLabs kicks off for EURO 2012
Sharp FanLabs launches in Alicante at the Spain v Scotland Euro 2012 qualifier.
Simon, Paddy and Richard read the brains of a truckload of Spanish fans to measure their passion throughout the game and to launch our Euro 2012 sponsorship to 60 journalists across Europe.
July 2011
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April 2011
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The Future of Digital is Female
Lisa has been investigating how women are increasingly the real drivers behind the numbers that matter online. In this Campaign article she reveals that centre of gravity in digital brand behaviour and online spending has shifted away from the previously traditional male audience. Right on, sister. (wait, what?)
D&AD launches The White Pencil
D&AD launches The White Pencil.
An idea dreamt up at Work Club during our year as D&AD’s call for entry campaign agency.
BBC Worldwide appoints Work Club
BBC Worldwide has appointed Work Club to develop eCRM strategies & creative concepts across a range of BBC properties incl. Knowledge, BBC Games & Dr Who.
The briefs expand on BBC Worldwide’s international strategy to develop revenues from oversees audiences, including North America and Australia.
March 2011
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Live After Effects
No meetings in the end room for a while. Not while Matt and Tom have turned it into an HD table top studio for PZ Cussons. We’ve told them that black and white scamps would be fine, but they never listen.
January 2011
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Turnstile Boy
We just shot some films for Topps confectionary. Watch this space for a kid made of basketballs and several children with the biggest mouths in the world…
Our first award of 2011
December 2010
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It's Cold Outside...
So there’s Hot Chocolate on the stove. With some added ‘extras’. You sexy thing.
November 2010
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The D&AD President Speaks to the World (in as many...
Our D&AD call for entries campaign has gone live. Sanky the President, as er The President. Giving a global address on the importance of creativity, and the importance of D&AD to every advertising and design community in the world. And we thought to be as effective as possible, a global President should deliver it in whatever language is your language. So The President effortlessly...
September 2010
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Not In My Cuppa
Would you drink Factory Milk from Battery Cows? Not In Our Cuppa. Our WSPA campaign against Intensive Dairy Farming kicks off today with 100 battery cows busting out from a truck outside the Dairy Council this morning and roaming around London in search of a nice patch of grass. They’re twitpic-ing as they go and signing the public up in protest as they raise public awareness against...
August 2010
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Boat Trippin'
Work Club = <3
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June 2010
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One of these please
The time has come for our Cherie Marie to leave the nest and so we face a daunting task. We must find a new front of house.
Here’s a bit of what we’re looking for; someone to welcome our clients, to man the phones, maintain the office, assist super ops manager Phil, play with the dog, throw huge parties, control the stationery, know what’s cool and where, learn some stuff,...
May 2010
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Bart's Blackboard
Every 6 months Work Club invite an up and coming artist to decorate its 22m long blackboard wall. This time, the artist is writing everything he’s ever written on the Springfield Elementary School blackboard, in order.
It took illustrator Mat Williams two days, 20 white markers, 288 lines and 7697 characters to finish his lines.
James Haworth shot Bart’s journey to Work Club,...
Live At Work Club: The inaugural event
How better to kick off our new party nights than with an afternoon set from Mercury favourite Polar Bear. Friends and lovers joined us for food, drinks and the artful carving of a Serrano ham. And to make matters even more lovely we rounded off with a set from bPm. Thanks everyone, what an outstanding Friday.
It’s looking to be the first of many Live at Work Club sessions so...
April 2010
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New blackboard wall part one...
Mathieu, Matt and Tom go way way beyond with the help of Mat Williams and James Haworth. The blackboard is done, preview film coming soon. Mathieu isn’t bad though.
March 2010
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Production Process Meeting
Meetings don’t always open with five minute solos. They should.
February 2010
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Fr0m The H34rt
Our little-beating-knitted-heart sends anonymous love to all on twitter. Chose from Cute, G33ky, Lolcat, WTF and NSFW and our heart will send a message to your true love.
Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t love us or our heart and has suspended us. As someone said, perhaps the Black Eyed Peas… “Where is the love!” We’re consoling her with some soothing classic...
January 2010
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Listify
January’s not great is it?
Gui & Club compadre Alex Nelson have made us a present to jolly things along somewhat.
Introducing Listify, a wee app that makes Spotify playlists out of iTunes playlists.
Although you’re obviously at the mercy of Spotify’s catalogue - you can finally export (most) of your music library to Spotify. You’re welcome.
December 2009
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Ready, Set, Ho Ho Ho.
Another year, another gruelling Royal Parks running race. If you cast your sights back you may remember our Kenyan distance athlete friend John Murithi.
Well, this year we manned up ourselves… three of us did anyway. Santa hats off to Ben, Alex and Mani, along with everyone else that ran for the brilliant charity Contact A Family. And indeed all the other limber St. Nicks, your...
November 2009
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Wall 2.0
Illustrators of the interwebz! Fancy getting your mitts on a massive blackboard?
We’re looking for awesome peeps to come and flaunt their artistic wares on this vast canvas. You’ll be following in the footsteps of Mr. Chris Martin , no pressure.
Up for it? Send folio pics to win@work-club.com - subject: WALL
October 2009
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Smashing Pumpkins(!)
Although Halloween is still a week away, we couldn’t resist jumping the gun and flexing our pumpkin carving muscles, lets just hope they last until the big day. (update: they didn’t. LOL)
Burke Club
Today Tom and Cam met the lovely Alexandra Burke on the roof terrace of City Hall. She’s as delightful as she looks and a great download.
And while Alex is in the pipeline - check out the other great artists at Nokia Music We Like.
Flaming Hoop of Fire Fail.
We have a new Dyson Air Multiplier in the Club.
Ziggy refused to jump through the hoop, denying us a billion hits on YouTube. We try again tomorrow, with sausages.
The Voicebox in Parliament
Sidekick Studio’s robot buddy makes its debut in the Houses of Parliament today. The robotic arm will write out what you want your MPs to read. Should take their mind off any expenses-type letters that maybe waiting for them on their return…
September 2009
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Never play the bagpipes indoors.
In an entirely predictable fit of casual xenophobia, a piper played Gareth off to be married in the morning. ‘Flower of Scotland’ check. Loudest version ever. He left shortly after.
Raw Data Now
The Science Museum is 100 years old. The Internet is apparently 40. Last night we saw Sir Tim Berners-Lee talk about what he had in mind ‘when he invented the web’. And the future possibilites of a web completely infused with linked data - apparently he’d got the audience at Ted chanting ‘Raw Data Now!’ the last time he spoke about this. The Science Museum crowd...
Ciao there!
If you happened to be in Pizza Express Euston recently and your American Hot happened to be produced even more strategically than usual, here’s why: Frida and Lou.
Exhibiting prowess at the door, on the floor and the pizziola counter, the lovely Club femmes touched base with our favourite Restaurateur Client (and literally, they literally touched some base).
If this was the scouts,...
What to do with a hi-tech calligraphic robot?
The awesome Sidekick Studios robot arrived last week. It was promised it would transcribe the thoughts of the youth far and wide.
Intrigued by anything remotely electric, the chumps at the Club have been flocking to the corner of the studio to see what new whizzing and whirring sounds the ‘bot would make - determined not to miss the inaugural brush strokes.
And after a week of...
All Mustachioed Up
Woolly tights? Back to school? Bestival? Virgos? Welcome to Autumn! Hello to all things September including a special, hirsute tip of the hat to Tacheback.
The Club menfolk are manning up and preening their whiskers for this very excellent cause. Follow the progress and donate at will. Give it up for;
Mr. Andrew “There will be blood” Sandoz when handlebars meet the bank trade,
...
August 2009
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The WC flotilla
To celebrate our second birthday we broke out the yachts. With enough sun to keep our shoulders rosey and enough wind to fill our sails, we’re now two for two in the perfect-party-weather department. With the abyss abaft, we punctuated our trajectory from Southampton to Cowes with tackin’, jibin’ and hollerin’ and -natuarally- we did it in theme. Please refer to the...
Nokia Skate Almighty
Movers, shakers, Little Boots and some chump skaters. We descended on this years Skate Almighty with all the fluro ferocity of popular 80s frontman Mike Score. It was love on wheels, exactly like in popular film Roller Boogie starring Lynda Blair.
High-fives to the Nokia gang for the hyper-lolz.
Sushi Club
Tomoko Kawasaki is not only our design-intern and owner of the agency’s favourite motorcycle themed name, but she is also a mean sushi chef (unlike that freelancer we occasionally use, Nigel Harley-Davidson, his sashimi is awful).
Nigirizushi, makizushi, narezushi, whatever. You name it, Tomoko will have that shizz wasabied up and in your chop sticks before you can say MAKIYAKINABE!...
July 2009
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Meet a new chump
They call him “Heath - The Enlightened One” - and he probably has ‘the force’.
So far he has healed Alex, and made it rain MacbookPros upon Andy’s desk.
He’s a bit like the Stig.. only completely different. We like him.
GoodTimeMondayMorningsMeetings™
FTW?
Work Club Vs Pirata (again)
The 4th Work Club vs Pirata bout ended in a hot sweaty loss for the chumps!
Controversy sparked in regards to Pirata’s dubious transfer window movements.
Next hire = a creative with a killer left foot.
Chumps hit Greenwhich park
We closed shop early Friday for some well deserved R’n’R & Swedish midsummer tomfoolery. See more photos on our Facebook page!
June 2009
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Our Very Own Rockin' Roller Girl
Just so we’re all aware, Roller Derby is a full contact, all female sport. And one more time from the same hymn sheet, our Jo - creative services manager extraordinaire - plays for the The London Rockin’ Rollers.
They took on and trashed the Royal Windsor Roller Girls this Saturday in their second home bout in York Hall, Bethnal Green. Various club members (including a couple...
Go go, Buritto!
We’re fans of a good feed here in Work Club. We are conveniently located, with the gastronomic pleasures of Borough Market but a brownie’s throw away.
However there is one spot which holds a special place in our taste buds. And today, they gave us free food for wearing moustaches. They know us so well.
Thank you Tortilla, thank you.
May 2009
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Objectified
A well-groomed, Helvetica loving posse of us bowled over to the Barbican yesterday evening to see Objectified. The second film in an action packed, design trilogy by Mr. Gary Hustwit. it’s about our “complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them” read all about it and buy yourself a poster here.
The charming Q&A session...
Work Club VS Pirata
A tremendous air of anticipation overwhelmed SE1 in the run up to what some have referred to as the most momentous game of two halves London has ever witnessed. The strength of the interntional and home players was testament to the savvy purchase decisons made by each camp in recent transfer windows. From kick off confidence in both ranks was obvious. Strong defense and aggressive...
Recent Statistical Analysis
This chart highlights performance on the main floor over the past two weeks.
Although, incidents of quickly cooing “loooooook attha puppppy” when an idea isn’t being particularly well received have risen. With beneficial outcome.
Our newest member
Introducing Ziggy; the latest, adorable face to add to the Work Club ranks. Although not quite playing guitar yet, we are delighted to have a paw print on her contract and look forward to big things from this fresh, new talent.
The breakfast of champions
A balanced diet is vital for a healthy lifestyle. We endorse five portions of Work Club a day. Logo nutrients are high in amino branding acids and low in anti-lulz saturates.
April 2009
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Mellow Float
Mellow Bird’s “always delivers”. http://www.mellowbirds.co.uk/
Milk float experience and milder street teams courtesy of our friends at Lime.
Russ' awesome summer shooes.
It’s a popular misconception that in the run up to summer Cows say ‘moo’. What they are actually saying is ‘shooe’. And when they say ‘shooe’ they are talking about Russ’ new summer shooes. Which are awesome.
D&AD
We’ve been judging websites at D&AD at Olympia - marvel at the rows of posters that fill the hall. Jason McCann from Taxi NY took an even better picture…
Behind the "scenes"
Our Mellow Birds coffee relaunch breaks this week - initially universities in Birmingham and Bristol will be swamped with ways to get people back to theirs “for a coffee”. There’s bathroom posters, halls of residence doorhangers and an ebay shop about to launch - along with the film going on student TV and online.
6 couples are all at the doorstep stage at the end of their...