Hey!!! Congrats go out to James and Maria and baby Immy for today Maria gave birth to baby Isobel at 7.31am. A healthy little/big 9lb 2oz.

More late nights await Jimbob… and not through work. Enjoy…

And 24 years ago… a little baby Gavin (We Love’s Tech Lead) was born on Christams day… So big Happy B’days to Gav as well.

It was the night before Christmas… and some people weren’t watching the telebox or rushing to wrap last minute presents… no, they were busy analysing statistical data regarding their Xmas newsletter to the world…

… And what a cracker it was (no pun intended). In just 5 days we generated 17 new contacts, increased traffic (unique visitors) to the We Love site by a whopping 500%. And, ultimately, gained a lot of kudos along the way…

It was posted on the Creative Social Blog as one of the best five xmas cards seen this year (along with AKQA’s, BBH, M&C Saatchi and Poke). And seeing as the Creative Social is a very select group of the Top Creative’s in the World this is a very high achievement indeed.

So congrats to all involved. We plan on keeping setting higher and higher benchmarks for eDM.

However, the stats only show the business side of the application… let’s not forget what the Xmas card was for… to bring joy and a smile to everyone after an extremely hard years work. Well done. It was fun to make and thanks for all the positive comments from everyone. It fulfilled its purpose. A happy end

Happy Christmas all, and if you haven’t seen it yet…. click here >

Mark and all here at We Love

As part of A2Dominionas first foray into developing in Oxford, the brochure and offline collateral for Cornerstone Court needed to be distinctive and characterful. It had to capture the individual nature of the property, yet also combine with the elegance and diversity of modern day Oxford.

Our solution was a concept that played on structure, life and architectural significance. Rather than settle for translating this purely to a graphical execution, and plumping for the reactive standard of A4, we tied the concept integrally into the brochure’s physical format.

After rigorous testing – mostly involving oversize sheets of paper and clusters of confused looking printers – we found a multiple brochure / wallet combo that carried the unique values of this unique property through to its final realisation. The result, an offering that stands head and shoulders above the competition in a marketplace saturated in mediocrity and sheepish complicity.

Q1, 2 and 3 next year will see all of A2Dominion’s Oxford developments marketed through a wide range of cross channel activities – the next exciting installment due by end of next month. We’ll keep you posted

Hi all…

Its been a busy run up to Christmas for us. We have won some new work… and delivered some cracking projects… (yes we will blog them and add them to the folio when we get a spare minute)… and have some interesting conversations on the go with some very interesting companies…

So… before you all break for what I hope will be a great Christmas of family and Bond films and a (with luck) drunken New Year… Heres to you Thanks for your support. Thanks for your interest. Oh… and if you want to see a great Christmas card… click the link:

I WANNA SEE YA XMAS CARD >

Happy Christmas. Mark, James and the Crew

We Love has been chosen by Major Players (THE recruitment company for the creative industry) to provide the creative for their new website after a 3 way pitch.

Let’s look forward to a prosperous and creative relationship.

We feel that the people that work for We Love are its most important assets. In fact, they are the DNA of the company. We are always looking for talent of all shape and sizes. We are currently looking for a:

Flash Designer / Web Developer

You ooze talent, you have vision, you can design the ass off Kylie… oooohhh Kylie… OK focus now. This is your future we are talking about… You know your way round flash and can animate better than the Warner Brothers, ActionScript better than Cyborg. And are willing to prove yourself in a fast growing, fast paced industry.

Whether you are a graduate or have a couple of years experience behind you and are willing to learn, grow and define your own future we would like to hear from you.

Someone who is mature enough to understand a brief, can take direction as well as contribute and show initiative.

Mac happy and PC proud.

So stop arsing around and send in your CV and Folio site / URLs along with 5 things that you love to

work@welove72.com

A little late but just wanted to share mine, Jen and Big D’s 5 day break to Hamburg a week ago…

The trip started with my Sons new found fascination with Aeroplanes… bloody expensive 2 hour wait in the departure lounge…

Great time had by all wandering the streets and taking brunch… I do miss the continental way…

They certainly know how to prep a city for Christmas… and as for the parks… wow… 40 meter zip lines and 25 meter giant tyre swings… and that’s for adults… For the kids…wow… you know it must be great growing up with such amenities… The UK could learn a lot from this.

We stayed up in Winterhude at a friends apartment overlooking a canal. Beautiful. So many thanks Stefan and Barbara Whos shoes Big D wore for most of the time…

Can’t wait to go back next year.

Mark