Drink, listen & learn

I was just checking on iris's website, the agency we had our first placement at and discovered they have this most wonderful thing going on next week.

'Dry and drafty lectures have given way to inspirational talks and, er, draft beer. Monotonous tutors have been swapped for splendifferous speakers.'

They call it Under the Influence and it's a day – Thursday the 12th of April – where they gather a huge bunch of speakers from all the sweet disciplines such as creative, planning, digital advertising, graphic design, trend watching and more. All these people will speak about their stuff in four pubs around Borough Market, London Bridge. Check it out on their website and make sure you register yourself for coming along if you fancy – it's absolutely free, even some beers are. We'll be there.

ps. we're off for easter & we hope everyone will enjoy this long weekend!

Promax Charity Challange

On saturday we were invited to present our 30" tv idea for crisiscampaigns we did with iris. Our presentation went good, still another agency won the opportunity to shoot the spot. The best bit was the direct feedback from the jury after every idea. It was a good lesson for us, and I do love failure, as long as we can draw something from it!

Thanks to Russel for illustrating the storyboard so amazingly well! We really do like this TV idea and will work a campaign out of it for our book, if you would like to see the script, invite us over.

We need to improve on our presentation skills

The iris-crisis crew discussing the challange with a beer


Storyboard in the making

Aurevoir iris

After four weeks on a creative work placement we had our last day on friday at iris London. We both agree that it was an amazing time, work & social wise. They do great work, they have great people and they have great fun! Thanks a lot to everyone there!

This week is all about improving the book, showing it to more people and getting the next placement, quit tough in London but we should do it somehow ;)

The morning after...

You thought you can drink? Well, may I politely correct you that my partner Val can do more. Yesterday Iris had a Halloween party where he went to. Unfortunatly I couldn't. But that is alright because I feel a little bit drunk already just by sitting next to him and let me clearly point out - I am talking about the morning after the party.

I can smell VodkaHAHAH tonic, Whis-HICKS-key cola and a weird mix of tequillaLALA, Sambuca and TabasFUCKINGHOTco.
Cheers Val... HICK-UP!

But maybe he just needed a drink 'cause W+K rescheduled our meeting, actually I needed one too :(

Almost got stabbed for not having a costume...

Another week

We spoke to Kevin, head of copy here at iris, we'll get to stay for another week. Good news for us! We worked on a wonderbra brief since yesterday and we'll might get some good stuff out of it for our book. The day continues to be blue since we met also

friends today, bluey & his family from the ground floor.

Yesterday was the summer(ish) night out with the creative department. We went to the Comedy Store, free meal & drinks. The show was amazingly funny, just as good as a workout at the gym. We also got to know more of the crazy people at iris. With almost 100 creatives it's a mission to remember everyone's name, but we're workin' on it.

The loonies at their desk


Our new friend bluey, he tastes like yesterdays blueberry cheesecake kris says


lilb, blueys younger brother, nice little guy!


iris slogan, this blue light makes you crazy though, we think they're trying to hypnotize

Second week on placement

It is ous second week on placement at the iris nation. We enjoy it quit a lot so far. We worked on stuff for Sony Ericsson, Jack Daniel's and Shell. As this might be our last week here we sent out short & sweet versions of our book to Fallon and BBH.

If you are searching for contacts in certain agencies you should try to speak with someone from LIZH a creative headhunting agency near Carnaby Street.

We are curious when we will get our next placement at. But so far we will continue enjoying the atmosphere and the friendly people at iris, a good place to be, indeed.