We Love…

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

Well, it was an intense month, with some great work going live - checkout www.gestaltung.co.uk for a restrained use of Papervision (we’ll post full details on this launch and a number of others shortly). But we made it through to the other side with our sanities intact - and to celebrate we took the team to Russia (with Love). Well almost. We went to a storming, themed Bond night, with fire eaters, bond girls, bavarian dancers and drink tokens a-plenty.

See below for some highly edited pics Happy Christmas guys, hope you had great night xx

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 thats 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

Quick email to announce that We Love will be the digital agency of choice after winning a 5 way pitch for the Bromley Christian Centre… a leading and forward thinking group of guys… A leader in the church community.

Tasked with providing a multi-faceted online solution to help them grow and interact within their community. We look forward to working with them all in the long term.

Often the success of a project from a budgetary, timescale and satisfaction level comes down to how a project is managed (internally) and how involved a client is with the creative (externally).

In these tightening times of finance and expansive times of industry nervousness it pays to up your ability in both managing your team and engaging the client. It may be extra effort on your part (and let’s be honest we are already working night and day to secure the success, quality and growth of our companies)… but if you play it right, you may actually be better off for it, saving time by working smarter…

Here are seven rules of thumb to help engage your team and make sure that the late nights are an exception not the norm:

1. Agree precise specification for the project. Document, document, document… create a scope of works.
2. Plan the project - time, team, activities, resources, financials.
3. Communicate the project plan to your project team.
4. Agree and delegate project actions.
5. Manage, motivate, inform, encourage, enable the project team.
6. Check, measure, review project progress; adjust project plans, and inform the project team and others.
7. Complete project; review and report on project performance; give praise and thanks to the project team. And ultimately be honest.

As for the Client: In your planning always ensure that there are ample review sessions, tissue meetings and brainstorms… This ultimately helps you get a better result. No one knows his or her business better than the client. They can feed in to your ideas, support and solve the weaknesses and feel like they have been part of the process, helping to secure the success of their current activity…

Now you know the process… let it run and go be creative…

Two designers setting out on their first steps towards creative direction (checkout the glimpse of a 1990’s Creative Review).

Well it looks as though I kept my boyish good looks from all those years ago… but unfortunately time has been no friend to Mark Although to be fair he was ahead of the game even in those days… sadly he pre-empted chavs by about 10 years xD

Being the young professional I am, I recently jetted off on a European city break to Rome. A great time was had, beautiful Rome explored and an italian waiter was put in the recovery position and brought back from unconsciousness.

The Gallery Borghese, Pantheon, Spanish Steps, Colloseum (which was magnificent, I’m not sure why everyone slates it as a disappointment), Trevi fountain and Pantheon. Rome really is a great city and the food was sublime. They know how to cook a steak (i.e. not very much).

It was such a good time one of my photos was selected by the Guardian in their arts and blogs section! Quite a surprise to find it there. Check out more photos from WeLove on our flickr photo stream.

Just gathering ammo to embarrass my spawn when he brings his mates / first girlfriend home…

Pumpkin Boy does the Pumpkin Dance..

Happy Halloween!

Mark